Behavioural Processes

Top Research Topics at Behavioural Processes?

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Developmental psychology, Ecology, Zoology, Communication and Social psychology. The work on Developmental psychology tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Social relation, Audiology, Stimulus (physiology), Cognition and Reinforcement. Reinforcement study tackled is connected to the field of Statistics.

Predation and Foraging are all aspects of Ecology discussed in the journal. Predation research is concerned with Predator in particular. Mating is a key component of Zoology research discussed in the journal.

The journal connects research in Communication with the related topic of Artificial intelligence. Behavioural Processes links adjacent topics like Artificial intelligence with Pattern recognition. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Social psychology, apply to Cognitive psychology as well.

• Developmental psychology (23.47%)
• Ecology (14.65%)
• Zoology (12.85%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Parasitic manipulation: where are we and where should we go? (456 citations)
• What is emotion (430 citations)
• Pathological gambling severity is associated with impulsivity in a delay discounting procedure. (417 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Behavioural Processes:

The published articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Developmental psychology, Social psychology, Communication, Ecology and Cognitive psychology. The published papers address concerns in Developmental psychology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Social relation, Audiology, Stimulus (physiology), Cognition and Reinforcement. While work presented in the most cited papers provide substantial information on Social psychology, it also covers topics in Delay discounting, Impulsivity, Statistics and Demography.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

• Ecology
• Internal medicine
• Zoology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The topics of Zoology, Foraging, Context (language use), Demography and Predation are the focal point of discussions in Behavioural Processes. The study on Zoology presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Sensory cue. The studies in Context (language use) featured incorporate elements of Extinction (psychology), Audiology and Artificial intelligence.

While Behavioural Processes focused on Demography, it was also able to explore topics like Dominance (ethology) and Affect (psychology). The main emphasis of it is the subject of Predation, focusing on Predator.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Let's unite in play! Play modality and group membership in wild geladas. (5 citations)
• Appetitive search behaviors and stereotypies in polar bears (Ursus maritimus). (4 citations)
• Multimodal cues facilitate ripe-fruit localization and extraction in free-ranging pteropodid bats. (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Behavioural Processes (based on the number of publications) are:

• Thomas R. Zentall (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Patrick W. Colgan (29 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Ralph R. Miller (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Donald M. Wilkie (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Armando Machado (22 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Behavioural Processes (based on the number of publications) are:

• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (114 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• National Autonomous University of Mexico (57 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
• Arizona State University (53 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• University of Alberta (49 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
• University of Florida (48 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 2.07% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.90% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.93% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 10.56% of all publications and 67.61% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

• Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
• Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
• Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
• Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
• Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.