The scholar's best friend: research trends in dog cognitive and behavioral studies.

ABSTRACT: In recent decades, cognitive and behavioral knowledge in dogs seems to have developed considerably, as deduced from the published peer-reviewed articles. However, to date, the worldwide trend of scientific research on dog cognition and behavior has never been explored using a bibliometric approach, while the evaluation of scientific research has increasingly become important in recent years. In this review, we compared the publication trend of the articles in the last 34 years on dogs' cognitive and behavioral science with those in the general category "Behavioral Science". We found that, after 2005, there has been a sharp increase in scientific publications on dogs. Therefore, the year 2005 has been used as "starting point" to perform an in-depth bibliometric analysis of the scientific ac

SUBMITTER: Aria M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8128826 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature