Impact Factor
3.75
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
3.56
1,163 total citations
h5-index
40
h5 depth signal
Cited share
80.9%
288 of 356
Total citations
1,163
Citation footprint
Metric signal
3.62
External metric anchor
Self-citation
1.6%
19 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United States
760
United Kingdom
464
Australia
264
Germany
210
Canada
189
Citing Fields of Research
Animal Biology
1,171
Entomology
444
Evolutionary Genomics
374
Marine Biology
324
Paleontology
192
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
4,706
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
356
288 cited publications
Last 12 months
207
17.3 publications/month
Open access share
87.0%
180 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United States
760 citing publications
Leading citing field
Animal Biology
1,171 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
14 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v1n1, 22 Mar. 2005-
v1n1, 22 Mar. 2005-
Active Coverage
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Animal Biology
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
Contributor
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Broad Categories
Biology
Animal Biology
Entomology
Marine Biology
Paleontology
Biosensors
MeSH Descriptors
Biology
Biomedical Research
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0256
Open DOI
Visually simulated altered gravity modulates perceived object weight
Gravity is a fundamental force acting on all objects on Earth. It is therefore unsurprising that the brain has internalized regularities associated with terrestrial gravity. An internal model of gravity is thought to arise from the integ...
02
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0467
Open DOI
There may be many ways to be an herbivorous fish, but it usually takes a lot of guts
Classic examples of convergent trophic evolution in fishes have focused predominantly on adaptations in craniofacial morphology to piscivorous and durophagous diets. With the physiological demands of nutrient-poor, plant-based diets, ada...
03
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0445
Open DOI
Cuttlefish use the negation of dead prey to judge food value in foraging decision
Understanding how targeted prey conditions influence foraging decisions is a fundamental issue in animal behaviour. The present study investigated whether cuttlefish use prey liveness to assess overall food quality. Cuttlefish were allow...
04
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0444
Open DOI
Persistent effects of experimental heatwave duration on population dynamics
Heatwaves are becoming longer, more frequent and more intense under climate change. However, we still have a limited understanding of the longer term (multi-generational) impacts of heatwaves, and of the demographic mechanisms that under...
05
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0404
Open DOI
Play vocalizations induce affective bias in reward learning and memory in orangutans
Affective biases, or shifts in learning and decision-making driven by affective states, are central to human cognition. Studies in rodents have shown that pharmacological and stress manipulations alter reward valuation, but how positive ...
06
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0358
Open DOI
Beetle gloss is a cue of conspecifics, but only in sunny conditions
Illumination conditions have a tremendous influence on the appearance of colours in nature. This is especially true for glossy objects, which generate bright highlights in direct sunlight, but the visibility of these highlights is notice...
07
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0224
Open DOI
Exploitation of host mating behaviour by a parasitoid fly
Egg-laying decisions are crucial in insect parasitoids because the host constitutes the only resource available for immature development. We estimated the extent to which host sex, size and mating behaviour are involved and interact in s...
08
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0327
Open DOI
Discovery and characterization of outer membrane vesicles produced by the bee gut microbiota
Bacteria use diverse mechanisms to interact with each other and with eukaryotic hosts, thereby shaping microbiome composition and influencing host health. One of these mechanisms is the production of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), nanos...
09
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0316
Open DOI
Ploidy is associated with multielemental reorganization across soft and mineralized body compartments
Polyploidy alters nuclear DNA content, gene dosage and cellular organization, but its consequences for organismal chemistry remain poorly resolved, particularly in animals. Because nucleic acids and associated cellular machinery require ...
10
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2026.0313
Open DOI
Quantifying pollen and spore morphology using a language model
In a typical systematic paper, specimen morphology is described with natural language, and taxonomic specialists use glossaries of technical terminology to establish and communicate taxon concepts, using morphology to delimit species. Te...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Title from cover.
Latest issue consulted: Vol. 1, no. 2 (22 June 2005).
Print issues ceased with v. 15 (2019).
Also issued online.