Aggressive Behavior

Aims & Scope

Aggressive Behavior will consider manuscripts in the English language concerning the fields of Animal Behavior, Anthropology, Ethology, Psychiatry, Psychobiology, Psychology, and Sociology which relate to either overt or implied conflict behaviors.

Papers concerning mechanisms underlying or influencing behaviors generally regarded as aggressive and the physiological and/or behavioral consequences of being subject to such behaviors will fall within the scope of the journal.

Review articles will be considered as well as empirical and theoretical articles.

Aggressive Behavior is the official journal of the International Society for Research on Aggression.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.3
2024	2.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.105

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4104

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	635

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Psychology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Bullying as a group process: Participant roles and their relations to social status within the group

  Citation: 1253

  Authors: Christina, Kirsti, Kaj, Karin, Ari

• The reactive–proactive aggression questionnaire: differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescent boys

  Citation: 1167

  Authors: Adrian, Kenneth, Rolf, Lisa, Don, Chandra, Magda, Jianghong

• Prevalence estimation of school bullying with the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire

  Citation: 1157

  Authors: Mona E., Dan

• Do girls manipulate and boys fight? developmental trends in regard to direct and indirect aggression

  Citation: 878

  Authors: Kaj, Kirsti M. J., Ari

• An information processing model for the development of aggression

  Citation: 501

  Authors: L.

• Is indirect aggression typical of females? gender differences in aggressiveness in 11- to 12-year-old children

  Citation: 486

  Authors: Kirsti M. J., Kaj, Tarja

• Teasing, rejection, and violence: Case studies of the school shootings

  Citation: 432

  Authors: Mark R., Robin M., Laura, Stephen

• Moral disengagement among children and youth: A meta‐analytic review of links to aggressive behavior

  Citation: 419

  Authors: Gianluca, Tiziana, Shelley

• Prospective linkages between peer victimization and externalizing problems in children: a meta-analysis

  Citation: 391

  Authors: Albert, Jan H., Peter, Paul A., Menno, Michael J.

• Development of the multidimensional peer-victimization scale

  Citation: 389

  Authors: Helen, Stephen

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