Animals (journal)
# 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.

