本杂志发表了关于实验、饲养和护理方法的报告和文章，这些方法明显提高了农场、实验室、野生动物/动物园环境中以及作为同伴的非人类动物的福利。JAAWS是美国防止虐待动物协会（ASPCA）和动物伦理治疗心理学家（PSYETA）的联合项目。每一期都包括几份报告，涵盖了科学实验或演示，这些实验或演示提供了与应用动物福利科学的主要问题有关的证据。所有提交的稿件都由一个部门编辑小组进行同行评审，该小组负责监督一个杰出的编辑委员会进行更全面的评审。JAAWS还出版了一些专题文章，这些文章对我们对动物福利的理解、新的经验数据或对现有数据的重新评估、概念或理论分析做出了特别重要或具有煽动性的贡献。这些专题文章附有几篇受邀的评论，评论性地讨论了这一贡献，特别是关于它对动物福利的影响。
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This journal publishes reports and articles on methods of experimentation, husbandry, and care that demonstrably enhance the welfare of non-human animals on farms, in laboratories, in wildlife/zoo settings, and as companions. JAAWS is a conjoint project of The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PSYETA). Each issue includes several reports covering scientific experiments or demonstrations that present evidence relating to prime issues of applied animal welfare science. All submitted manuscripts are peer-reviewed by a panel of section editors who oversee an even more complete review by a distinguished board of editors. JAAWS also publishes feature articles that present particularly significant or provocative contributions to our understanding of animal welfare new empirical data or reevaluations of available data, or conceptual or theoretical analysis. These feature articles are accompanied by several invited commentaries that critically discuss the contribution--particularly in regard to its implications for animal welfare.
