Animal Welfare
A section of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Editorial Board
Topic Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Pain Mitigation for Farmed Livestock (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Urban Animal Welfare Policies and Practices (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Processing of environmental stimuli and farm animal welfare (Deadline: 31 May 2021)
- Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Pigs—Implications in Welfare Issues (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Dairy Cow Behavior, Welfare, and Productivity (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Positive Welfare Indicators for On-Farm Welfare Assessment (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Animal Activity in Farms (Deadline: 30 June 2021)
- Deep Learning and Animal Welfare (Deadline: 10 July 2021)
- Learning Theory Applied to the Welfare of Animals (Deadline: 15 July 2021)
- Welfare Impacts of Long-Distance Transfer of Shelter Animals (Deadline: 15 July 2021)
- Advances in Animal Sheltering (Deadline: 30 July 2021)
- Body Condition and Productivity, Health and Welfare (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Epigenetic and Animal Welfare, Stress and Resilience (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Improving Research Animal Welfare and Quality of Science (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Commercial Poultry Welfare: Existing and Emerging Issues (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- Impact of COVID-19 on Animal Management and Welfare (Deadline: 31 July 2021)
- How Animal Welfare Reforms Are Reshaping Societal Institutions Charged with Animal Management (Deadline: 1 August 2021)
- Cattle Transport (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Housing Environment and Farm Animals' Well-Being (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Biomarkers of Stress in Animals (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Use of Social Network Analysis to Evaluate Animal Welfare (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Animal Welfare Assessment: Novel Approaches and Technologies (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Endangered Rare Livestock Breeds (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- The Welfare of Laboratory Animals (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Animal Welfare, Food Safety and Environmental Sustainability: Farm Animals Productions in a “One-Health” Perspective (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Hormones and the Welfare of Animals (Deadline: 1 December 2021)
- The Role of Social Behavior in Cattle Welfare (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Euthanasia of Animals (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Replacing Animal Testing in Research—A Scientific and Regulatory Perspective of Current Efforts Towards the 1R (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Animal Health, Welfare and Sustainability of Organic Production (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Impacts of Natural and Man-Made Disasters on Wildlife: Planning, Protection and Outcomes (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Minimal-Stress Handling for Welfare Improvement (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- The Use of Animals in Animal Experimentation (Deadline: 1 January 2022)
- Behaviour and Welfare of Laying Hens (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Welfare of Animals in Livestock Production Systems and at Slaughter (Deadline: 27 March 2022)
- Advances in Chimpanzee Welfare (Deadline: 31 March 2022)
- Felid Welfare—Behavior, Reproduction, and Abnormal Behavior (Deadline: 1 April 2022)
- Trends in Camel Health and Production (Deadline: 30 May 2022)
