ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2019
What Is so Positive about Positive Animal Welfare?-A Critical Review of the Literature.
Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
62 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review on the application of precision livestock farming technologies to detect lying, rest and sleep behavior in dairy calves.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Pooled it
- Welfare implications on management strategies for rearing dairy calves: A systematic review. Part 1-feeding management.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Pooled it
- Cognitive tasks as measures of pig welfare: a systematic review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Pooled it
- Welfare implications on management strategies for rearing dairy calves: A systematic review. Part 2 - Social management.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Pooled it
- Advances in veterinary drug and vaccine delivery: from conventional delivery methods to innovative transdermal approaches.Drug delivery and translational research · 2026Review
- Exploring Public Knowledge of Dog Law in the UK: Evidence of Poor Legal Knowledge in a Nationally Representative Sample.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- First multi-domain scientific protocol with physiological markers for assessing cattle welfare in India.BMC veterinary research · 2026Article
- Animal Welfare Monitor: Raising the Bar for Species-Specific Welfare Evaluation Using Welfare QualityAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Advancing evidence-informed practice in modern zoos: research priorities for animal welfare, conservation, and social legitimacy.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Review
- Rehoming Laboratory Rats: Exploring Perceptions of Rehomers, Animal Technicians, and Biomedical Researchers.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2026Article
- Take a Look Towards the Stress Response of Working Dogs: Cortisol and Lactate Trend Mismatches During Training.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Environmental and biological drivers of movement activity in Callimico goeldii under zoo conditions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Relevance of state-behaviour feedbacks for animal welfare.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- A framework for a comprehensive animal welfare label: scientific, logistic, and ethical challenges.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2025Article
- Dairy calves provided with environmental enrichment are more active, playful and have fewer feeding interruptions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Assessing and Improving Animal Welfare Using Applied Ethology.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Use of animal-mounted accelerometers to identify positive welfare in dairy cattle.Dairy science and management · 2025Article
- Stage 2 Registered Report: Refinement of tickling protocols to improve positive animal welfare in laboratory rats.F1000Research · 2025Article
- The neurobiological basis of emotions and their connection to facial expressions in non-human mammals: insights in nonverbal communication.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
It is claimed that positive animal welfare (PAW) developed over the last decade in reaction to animal welfare focusing too much on avoiding negatives. However, it remains unclear what PAW adds to the animal welfare literature and to what extent its ideas are new. Through a critical review of the PAW literature, we aim to separate different aspects of PAW and situate it in relation to the traditional animal welfare literature. We find that the core PAW literature is small (
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