Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Discipline	Life sciences, behavioral sciences, biology, neuroscience, psychology, genetics, psychiatry
Language	English
Edited by	Paul Bloom, Barbara L. Finlay
Publication details
History	1978–present
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	29.3 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Behav. Brain Sci.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	BBSCDH
ISSN	0140-525X (print) 1469-1825 (web)
LCCN	79649226
OCLC no.	4172559
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of Open Peer Commentary established in 1978 by Stevan Harnad and published by Cambridge University Press. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 29.3.^[1]

History and structure of publications

Behavioral and Brain Sciences is modeled on the journal Current Anthropology (which was established in 1959 by the University of Chicago anthropologist, Sol Tax).^[2][3]

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, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy) and articles are judged by four or more referees to be of sufficient importance and interdisciplinary 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.