It is my pleasure to announce the winner of the Primates 2023 Social Impact Award. This high social impact paper was selected by the editor-in-chief and the two vice editors-in-chief from papers published in Primates (Volume 62 Issue 4 to Volume 64 Issue 3), based on data sources such as the Altmetric score (mentions in the media and social networking sites) and the number of full-text downloads.

The Primates 2023 Social Impact Award goes to the following paper:

Adriano R. Lameira and Marcus Perlman. Great apes reach momentary altered mental states by spinning (Primates 64:319–323,   2023).

This paper received a great deal of media attention, was frequently mentioned on social networking sites, and was downloaded numerous times. The research reported in this paper thus contributed greatly to enhancing the reputation of our journal.

Please join us in congratulating the authors!

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Masayuki Nakamichi, Editor-in-Chief (2021-2023), Primates