The social setting of animal subjects in the research environment has known effects on a variety of dependent measures used in biomedical research. Proper evaluation of the robustness of published research is dependent upon transparent, detailed, and accurate reporting of research methods, including the animals' social housing conditions. However, to date, most research articles utilizing nonhuman primates (NHPs) provide only partial data on this topic, hampering transparency, and reproducibility. Therefore, we call for the inclusion of information pertaining to the social aspects of the animals' housing conditions in publications involving NHPs to improve transparency. We argue that including this information in scientific publications is crucial for the interpretation of research findings in the appropriate context and for understanding unexplained variability in study findings. Finally, the inclusion of this information in publications will additionally familiarize scientists with how other researchers conducting similar studies are housing their animals and will encourage them to consider the implications of various housing conditions on their research outcomes

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提高透明度——呼吁将社会住房信息纳入涉及非人类灵长类动物的生物医学研究文章中

研究环境中动物受试者的社会环境对生物医学研究中使用的各种相关措施有已知影响。对已发表研究的稳健性的正确评估取决于对研究方法的透明、详细和准确的报告，包括动物的社会住房条件。然而，迄今为止，大多数使用非人类灵长类动物 (NHP) 的研究文章仅提供有关该主题的部分数据，这阻碍了透明度和可重复性。因此，我们呼吁在涉及 NHP 的出版物中包含有关动物住房条件的社会方面的信息，以提高透明度。我们认为，将这些信息包含在科学出版物中对于在适当的背景下解释研究结果以及理解研究结果中无法解释的可变性至关重要。最后，将这些信息包含在出版物中将使科学家们进一步了解进行类似研究的其他研究人员如何安置他们的动物，并鼓励他们考虑各种住房条件对其研究结果的影响