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- Title
Twelve years after the ARRIVE guidelines: Animal research has not yet arrived at high standards.
- Authors
Song, Junmin; Solmi, Marco; Carvalho, Andre F; Shin, Jae Il; Ioannidis, John PA
- Abstract
The reproducibility crisis across animal studies jeopardizes the credibility of the main findings derived from animal research, even though these findings are critical for informing human studies. To clarify and improve transparency among animal studies, the ARRIVE reporting guidelines were first announced in 2010 and upgraded to version 2.0 in 2020. However, compliance with and awareness of those reporting guidelines has remained suboptimal. Journal editors should encourage the authors to adhere to those guidelines. Authors, editors, referees, and reviewers should be aware of the ARRIVE guideline 2.0 when assessing and evaluating the methodology and findings of animal studies. However, we should also question whether reporting guidelines alone can change a research culture and improve the reproducibility of animal investigations. Reported research may not reflect actual research. Large segments of animal research efforts are wasted because of poor design choices and because of non-publication rather than suboptimal reporting. Better training of the scientific workforce, interventions at improving animal research at the design stage, registration practices, and alignment of the reward system with the publication of rigorous animal research may achieve more than reporting guidelines alone.
- Subjects
LABORATORY animals; REWARD (Psychology)
- Publication
Laboratory Animals, 2024, Vol 58, Issue 2, p109
- ISSN
0023-6772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00236772231181658