Genes, Brain and Behavior

{{Infobox journal

| title= Genes, Brain and Behavior

| cover = G2Bcover.jpg

| editor = Andrew Holmes

| discipline = Neuroscience, genetics, behavioral sciences, psychiatry

| abbreviation = Genes Brain Behav.

| publisher = Wiley

| frequency = Bimonthly

| history = 2002–present

| openaccess = Yes

| license = CC BY-NC-ND, and up

| impact = 2.4

| impact-year = 2023

| website = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1601183x

| link1 = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1601183x/current

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/1601183x

| link2-name = Online archive

| OCLC = 49420026

| LCCN = 2002243177

| CODEN = GBBEAO

| ISSN = 1601-1848

| eISSN = 1601-183X

}}

Genes, Brain and Behavior (also known as G2B) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering research in the fields of behavioral, neural, and psychiatric genetics. It is published by Wiley on behalf of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. The journal was established in 2002 as a quarterly and is currently published bimonthly. In 2024, Douglas Wahlsten wrote that the contents of the journal are "thoroughly modern", not suffering from the genetic determinism that "infected" many earlier behavior-genetics publications.{{cite book |last1=Wahlsten |first1=Douglas |author1-link=Douglas Wahlsten |title=Radical Science. Facts, Theories, Ideologies, Accidents |date=2024 |publisher=Minuteman Press |location=New Westminster, BC, Canada |page=161}}

Overview and history

Genes, Brain and Behavior (also known as G2B){{cite book |last1=Wahlsten |first1=Douglas |author1-link=Douglas Wahlsten |title=Radical Science. Facts, Theories, Ideologies, Accidents |date=2024 |publisher=Minuteman Press |location=New Westminster, BC, Canada |page=160}} is published by Wiley on behalf of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society.{{cite journal |author=Pagel, Mark |date=7 May 2004 |title=The order in a billion sequences |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=188536§ioncode=26 |journal=Times Higher Education |access-date=2013-09-20}} Volume 1 appeared in 2002 and issues appeared quarterly. As submissions increased, the journal switched in 2003 to a bimonthly schedule, in 2006 to 8-times-a-year, and going back to bimonthly in 2023.{{cite web |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/1601183x |work=Wiley Online Library |publisher=Wiley |title=Genes, Brain and Behavior |access-date=2024-12-24}} Review time from submission to first editorial decision is just a month with a "remarkably fast 2 days from acceptance of a paper to on-line publication." Content is available online for free from the Wiley Online Library. The journal was originally published in both print and electronic versions, but since 2014 the journal is online-only.{{cite web |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1601183x/homepage/ForAuthors.html |title=Author Guidelines |work=Genes, Brain and Behavior |publisher=Wiley |access-date=2014-02-16}} Publication costs are covered through article publication charges paid by authors or their institutions (Gold open access).

The founding editor-in-chief was Wim Crusio (French National Centre for Scientific Research), who was succeeded in 2012 by Andrew Holmes (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1601-183X.2011.00760.x |title=Genes, Brain and Behavior: At the vanguard of behavioral and genomic neuroscience |year=2012 |last1=Holmes |first1=Andrew |journal=Genes, Brain and Behavior |volume=11 |page=1|doi-access=free}}

Reception

In its third year, Genes, Brain and Behavior was available in 1400 academic libraries. In 2024, Douglas Wahlsten wrote that the contents of the journal are "thoroughly modern", not suffering from the genetic determinism that "infected" many earlier behavior-genetics publications.{{cite book |last1=Wahlsten |first1=Douglas |author1-link=Douglas Wahlsten |title=Radical Science. Facts, Theories, Ideologies, Accidents |date=2024 |publisher=Minuteman Press |location=New Westminster, BC, Canada |page=161}}

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2023 impact factor is 2.4, ranking the journal 195th out of 310 journals in the category "Neurosciences" and 24th out of 55 journals in the category "Behavioral Sciences".{{cite book |year=2024 |chapter=Genes, Brain and Behavior |title=2023 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |edition=Science |via=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}} The five journals that {{as of|2023|lc=yes}} have cited Genes, Brain and Behavior most often, are (in order of descending citation frequency) International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. {{As of|2023}}, the five journals that have been cited most frequently by articles published in Genes, Brain and Behavior are Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Genetics, The Journal of Neuroscience, and Behavioural Brain Research.

The journal has developed standards for the publication of mouse mutant studies.{{cite journal |vauthors=Crusio WE, Goldowitz D, Holmes A, Wolfer D |date=February 2009 |title=Standards for the publication of mouse mutant studies |journal=Genes, Brain and Behavior |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=1–4 |pmid=18778401 |doi=10.1111/j.1601-183X.2008.00438.x|s2cid=205853147 |doi-access=free}} Many mouse mutant studies have serious methodological problems leading to fatally flawed scientific conclusions,{{cite journal |title=Flanking gene and genetic background problems in genetically manipulated mice |last1=Crusio |first1=Wim E. |year=2004 |journal=Biological Psychiatry |volume=56 |issue=6 |pages=381–385 |doi=10.1016/j.biopsych.2003.12.026|pmid=15364034 |s2cid=28989308 }} causing a waste of time, effort, and research resources, and leading to ethical problems because of the unnecessary use of live animals for flawed studies. These standards are gradually being accepted more widely in the field.{{cite web |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14609568/homepage/ForAuthors.html |title=European Journal of Neuroscience: Instructions for authors |work=Wiley Online Library |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |access-date=2009-08-30}}{{cite journal |author=Editorial |date=September 2009 |title=Troublesome variability in mouse studies |journal=Nature Neuroscience |volume=12 |issue=9 |page=1075 |pmid=19710643 |doi=10.1038/nn0909-1075 |doi-access=free}}

Abstracting and indexing

Genes, Brain and Behavior is abstracted and indexed in:

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Biological Abstracts{{cite web |url=https://mjl.clarivate.com/ |title=Web of Science Master Journal List |publisher=Clarivate |work=Intellectual Property & Science |access-date=2025-01-04}}
BIOSIS Previews
EBSCO databases{{cite web |url=http://miar.ub.edu/issn/1601-1848 |work=MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals |publisher=University of Barcelona |title=Genes, Brain and Behavior |access-date=2019-04-22}}
Embase{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.com/solutions/embase/coverage |title=Embase Coverage |publisher=Elsevier |work=Embase |access-date=2015-08-03}}
Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed{{cite web |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101129617 |title=Genes, Brain and Behavior |work=NLM Catalog |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information |access-date=2013-09-20}}
ProQuest databases
PsycINFO{{cite web |url=http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/coverage.aspx |publisher=American Psychological Association |title=PsycINFO Journal Coverage |access-date=2015-06-25}}
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus{{cite web |url=https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/22138 |title=Source details: Genes, Brain and Behavior |publisher=Elsevier |work=Scopus preview |access-date=2017-01-28}}

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Most cited articles

According to the Web of Science, the following three articles have been cited most often (>600 times):{{cite book |year=2025 |chapter=Genes, Brain and Behavior |title=Science Citation Index Expanded |publisher=Clarivate |via=Web of Science |title-link=Science Citation Index Expanded}}

{{cite journal |vauthors=Rubenstein JL, Merzenich MM |year=2003 |title=Model of autism: increased ratio of excitation/inhibition in key neural systems |journal=Genes, Brain and Behavior |volume=2 |issue=5 |pages=255–67 |pmid=14606691 |pmc=6748642 |doi=10.1034/j.1601-183X.2003.00037.x}}
{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1601-1848.2004.00076.x |pmid=15344922 |year=2004 |last1=Moy |first1=SS |last2=Nadler |first2=JJ |last3=Perez |first3=A |last4=Barbaro |first4=RP |last5=Johns |first5=JM |last6=Magnuson |first6=TR |last7=Piven |first7=J |last8=Crawley |first8=JN |author-link8=Jacqueline Crawley |title=Sociability and preference for social novelty in five inbred strains: An approach to assess autistic-like behavior in mice |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=287–302 |journal=Genes, Brain and Behavior|doi-access=free}}
{{cite journal |last1=McFarlane |first1=H. G. |last2=Kusek |first2=G. K. |last3=Yang |first3=M. |last4=Phoenix |first4=J. L. |last5=Bolivar |first5=V. J. |last6=Crawley |first6=J. N. |title=Autism‐like behavioral phenotypes in BTBR T+tf/J mice |journal=Genes, Brain and Behavior |date=March 2008 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=152–163 |doi=10.1111/j.1601-183X.2007.00330.x}}