''Hormones and Behavior'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering behavioral endocrinology. It is published by

Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as '' The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', ...

and is an official journal of the

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine Neuroendocrine cells are cells that receive neuronal input (through neurotransmitters ...

. The journal covers hormone-brain relationships and publishes original research articles from laboratory or field studies on species ranging from invertebrates to mammals. It focuses on

neuroendocrine Neuroendocrine cells are cells that receive neuronal input (through neurotransmitters released by nerve cells or neurosecretory cells) and, as a consequence of this input, release messenger molecules (hormones) into the blood. In this way they bri ...

and endocrine mechanisms affecting the development of behavior and on the

ecological Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

and

evolutionary Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...

significance of hormone-behavior relationships.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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/Life Sciences,

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, and

Index Medicus ''Index Medicus'' (''IM'') is a curated subset of MEDLINE, which is a bibliographic database of life science and biomedical science information, principally scientific journal articles. From 1879 to 2004, ''Index Medicus'' was a comprehensive ...

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. The 2018 journal impact factor for the journal was 4.445.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/hormones-and-behavior/ English-language journals Elsevier academic journals Endocrinology journals Academic journals established in 1969 Neuroscience journals