title: Animals (journal)
text: # Animals (journal)
  
  Animals is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that covers all areas of animal biology, including behavior, physiology, genetics, and ecology. It is published by MDPI and was established in 2011. The editor-in-chief is Clive J. C. Phillips (Estonian University of Life Sciences and Curtin University).
  
  The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, and short communications.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * CAB Abstracts
  * Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
  * EBSCO databases
  * Embase
  * Food Science and Technology Abstracts
  * ProQuest databases
  * Science Citation Index Expanded
  * Scopus
  * The Zoological Record
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.0.
  
  