Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies?

• Vanessa Tabea von Kortzfleisch ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: v_vonk01@uni-muenster.de

  Affiliations Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4191-4434

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• Oliver Ambrée,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

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• Natasha A. Karp,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Data Sciences & Quantitative Biology, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Neele Meyer,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4955-4488

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• Janja Novak,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Animal Welfare, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Rupert Palme,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9466-3662

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• Marianna Rosso,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Animal Welfare, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Chadi Touma,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

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• Hanno Würbel,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Animal Welfare, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Sylvia Kaiser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2770-7367

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• Norbert Sachser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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• S. Helene Richter

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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