A survey of researchers’ attitudes to preregistration in animal research reveals multiple perceived barriers to adoption

• Cristina Priboi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cristina Priboi, Boris Mayer, Hanno Würbel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8498-0509

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• Boris Mayer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cristina Priboi, Boris Mayer, Hanno Würbel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Evie Vergauwe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EV and BSE also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Bernice S. Elger ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EV and BSE also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Hanno Würbel

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cristina Priboi, Boris Mayer, Hanno Würbel

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

  * E-mail: hanno.wuerbel@unibe.ch

  Affiliation Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2934-3010

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