''Behavioral and Brain Sciences'' is a bimonthly

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of Open Peer Commentary established in 1978 by

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and published by Cambridge University Press. It is modeled on the journal '' Current Anthropology'' (which was established in 1959 by the University of Chicago anthropologist,

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). The journal publishes "target articles" followed by 10 to 30 or more peer commentaries and the response of the authors of the target article. The journal covers all areas of the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences ( psychology, neuroscience,

behavioral biology Ethology is the scientific method, scientific study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily Adaptive behavior (ecology), adaptive trait. Behaviourism as a t ...

, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, linguistics,

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) and articles are judged by four or more referees to be of sufficient importance and

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scope to merit Open Peer Commentary. Volume 1 appeared in 1978 and issues appeared quarterly; as its popularity grew it switched to a bimonthly schedule in 1997.

Abstracting and indexing

According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 17.333.

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