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期刊名称：ANIMALS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Animals — Open Access Journal of Animal Science and Animal Welfare
Animals (ISSN 2076-2615) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal devoted entirely to animals, including zoology and veterinary sciences, published monthly online by MDPI.
- Open Access free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
- High visibility: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) from Vol. 5 (2015), Zoological Record (Web of Science), Scopus and other databases. Citations available in PubMed, full-text archived in PubMed Central.
- Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 21 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 4.5 days (median values for papers published in the first six months of 2018).
- Recognition of Reviewers: reviewers who provide timely, thorough peer-review reports receive vouchers entitling them to a discount on the APC of their next publication in any MDPI journal, in appreciation of the work done.
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Aims
Animals (ISSN 2076-2615) is an international and interdisciplinary scholarly open access journal. It publishes original research articles, reviews, communications, and short notes that are relevant to any field of study that involves animals, including zoology, ethnozoology, animal science, animal ethics and animal welfare. However, preference will be given to those articles that provide an understanding of animals within a larger context (i.e., the animals' interactions with the outside world, including humans). There is no restriction on the length of the papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical research in as much detail as possible. Full experimental details and/or method of study, must be provided for research articles. Articles submitted that involve subjecting animals to unnecessary pain or suffering will not be accepted, and all articles must be submitted with the necessary ethical approval (please refer to the Ethical Guidelines for more information).
Subject Areas
Zoology:
- Physiology and physical structure of animals (e.g., breeding mechanisms, nutritional needs, development etc.) and its relevance to the ecosystem in which they live
- Evolution, phylogeny, genetics taxonomy and biodiversity of animals
Ecology and conservation:
- Protection and restoration of endangered and threatened species
- Abundance and distribution of animals and the relevance to sustainability of the ecosystem
- Predator-prey dynamics and interactions between animals in ecological communities
Animal management and welfare science:
- Animal behavioral and psychological responses to human activity and the environment
- Management of captive and domesticated animals
- Rehabilitation of animals into the wild
Animals and society:
- animal ethics and the morality of their use in human society
- Pest management
- Animal derived food
- Animal diseases and public health
- Ethnobiological and cross-cultural perspectives on animals
Preference will be given to those articles that incorporate interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research to provide an integrated understanding of animals and their relationships with humans. Standards and guidelines related to animal welfare, or comments/suggestions upon those standards and guidelines are particularly welcome. We wish to support original research that provides a broad understanding of how humans and animals can better coexist in a sustainable and healthy manner.
MDPI Publication Ethics Statement
 Animals is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications. MDPI works with Publons to provide reviewers with credit for their work.
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Animals — Indexing & Abstracting
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Instructions to Authors
Editorial Board
Editors (2)
Prof. Dr. Clive J. C. Phillips Editor-in-ChiefCentre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia Website | E-Mail Interests: animal welfare; animal ethics; captive animal management; heavy metals in animals Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals |
Prof. Dr. Marina von Keyserlingk Deputy Editor-in-ChiefUBC Animal Welfare Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, 2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada Website | E-Mail Interests: animal welfare; behavior; farm animals; ethology |
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