The study design elements employed by researchers in preclinical animal experiments from two research domains and implications for automation of systematic reviews

• Annette M. O'Connor ,

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

  * E-mail: oconnor@iastate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0604-7822

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• Sarah C. Totton,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent researcher, Guelph, ON, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2624-9405

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• Jonah N. Cullen,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Mahmood Ramezani,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Vijay Kalivarapu,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Chaohui Yuan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Stephen B. Gilbert

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5332-029X

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