ALT Editors & Publishers: We want your feedback!

ALT Editors & Publishers: We’re investigating ways to improve fairness in reviewing nonanimal biomedical research methods and are looking for your input. What interventions to mitigate bias have proven effective at your journal(s), and what might you be open to trying to counteract animal methods bias?

ALT Animal Methods Bias: The preference for animal-based research methods or the lack of expertise to adequately evaluate nonanimal methods, such as complex in vitro models. Animal methods bias can cause reviewers to expect or request animal experiments, which authors often feel are not scientifically justified.

ALT A person dressed in black stands in front of a conference poster titled, "Illuminating and Addressing Animal Methods Bias."

ALT Dr. Francesca Pistollato stands in front of a conference poster titled, "Unveiling Animal Methods Bias: Overcoming Barriers to Global Adoption of Non-Animal Approaches in Biomedical Research" at the EUROoCS annual meeting in Milan in July 2024.

ALT Screenshot from the homepage of the website www.animalmethodsbias.com