About the Journal

Animal Welfare, Ethology and Housing Systems (AWETH) journal is an online journal recognised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Section of Agricultural Sciences. It is published twice a year. The primary language of the journal is Hungarian, but it also publishes scientific articles in Hungarian and English in the fields of animal husbandry, animal breeding, and ethology.

Ownership
Animal Welfare, Etológia és Tartástechnológia is owned by the Institute of Animal Sciences, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The owner is represented by the Rector of the University.

Aims and scope and mission statement
The journal Animal Welfare, Etológia és Tartástechnológia is a scientific journal founded in 2005 and published twice a year. In some cases, it may also appear with special issues. The periodical publishes original scientific publications, research results, reviews and personalities in the field of animal husbandry and closely related disciplines in Hungarian and English.

Field of expertise of the Journal
animal husbandry, animal breeding, ethology

Keywords
animal breeding, animal products production, ethology, grassland management, housing technology, profitability, welfare 

Language
Hungarian and English

Periodicity of publication
It is published twice a year: in June and December.

Review process
The journal is reviewed in a double-blind review process. Submitted manuscripts are evaluated by two professional reviewers in an anonymous review process.

Conflict of Interest Policy
The author(s) of the manuscript and the referee(s) of the manuscript must not be from the same Department.

The editorial board is committed to implementing double-blind peer review, as well as ensuring the exclusion of conflicts of interest in the editing process and review of manuscripts submitted by their own editorial board members or by the journal's reviewers as authors or co-authors. A manuscript submitted by a member of the editorial board or by a reviewer of the journal cannot be reviewed by that particular editor or reviewer. A publishing editor cannot be appointed to their own manuscript, meaning that an editor cannot coordinate the review process of a manuscript in which they are an author or co-author. To achieve this, the editorial board employs several journal managers and journal editors simultaneously.

Conflict of interest statement
The Author(s) declare that there are no potential financial or personal interests and relationships in connection with their article that may influence the results of the research or their interpretation.

Plagiarism policy
The AWETH editorial team all submitted manuscripts to the Journal are screened for plagiarism since January of 2024 using the Turnitin software, that is provided by the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences. If the similarity index is significant, the manuscript will be returned to the authors for corrections.

Length of publication period of submitted manuscripts
Based on the publication frequency of Animal Welfare, Etológia és Tartástechnológia, the manuscripts are expected to be published within 2-8 months from submission if their manuscript is accepted after peer review process. If the manuscript does not meet to the journal's guidelines in terms of content or form, or cannot be published as a result of the plagiarism check, the editorial board will notify the submitting corresponding author within 2–4 weeks.

Publication charges
Article Processing Charges (APCs): free of charge. Sumission Charges: free of charge.

Revenues and marketing
Revenue sources
Animal Welfare, Etológia és Tartástechnológia is entirely financed by our publisher, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Advertising and Direct Marketing
None of the online issue of the Animal Welfare, Etológia és Tartástechnológia publish any advertisements.
Animal Welfare, Ethology and Animal Husbandry is published on the OJS platform hosted by the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences, with open access to the full text of articles. No other direct marketing methods are used by the editors to advertise the Animal Welfare, Etológia és Tartástechnológia content, or for the announce of our call for papers.

Open Access and Copyright Policy

Open Access Statement
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access.

Licencing:
The journal operates according to the principles of open access, however, the content is available under the Creative Commons 4.0 standard licenc: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0.  Under the following terms: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Self-archiving policy:
The journal allows authors to archive their manuscripts under the following conditions:

  • Preprint (submitted manuscript, prior to peer review):May be archived in the author’s institutional repository or on a personal website.
  • Postprint (peer-reviewed, accepted manuscript, not typeset):May be deposited in open-access repositories with a citation to the official version and a DOI.
    • If a preprint or postprint is shared, authors should indicate that the version is not the final published version.
  • Published version (publisher’s PDF): May be freely archived in any online location (e.g., repository, personal page, research network), provided the following are clearly included:
    • official publication data,
    • citation of the source (4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art), and the DOI of the article.

Copyright Policy:
The author retains the copyright of the article but, upon acceptance, grants the publisher a non-exclusive, perpetual license to make the work openly accessible under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Research data management guidelines:
The editorial board of the journal encourages researchers to manage the research data and texts that form the basis of their publications in a manner that best complies with FAIR data management principles, thereby enhancing transparent, reproducible, ethical research practices.

Data mining policy:
The journal's publisher wants to help authors by increasing the scientific visibility of their articles and is committed to reducing barriers to content mining. It actively engages with researchers to facilitate text and data mining by providing access to web robots on its own publishing platform and by continuously developing and updating its publishing platform and services.

Privacy Statement:
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

The Journal is indexed by CrossRef, DOAJ, CABI GLOBAL HEALTH, Google Scholar, Matarka, MTMT.

Long-term archiving of the articles is carried out in MATER Press (the Hungarian Agricultural and Life Sciences University's MTA-certified, publisher-owned repository). The long-term preservation of articles is also ensured by REÁL and REÁL-J.