Fig 1.
The ARRIVE guidelines have six Sections: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion.
Each Section has at least one item (e.g. ethics statement) with a description which we operationalized into discrete yes/no sub-items.
Fig 2.
The six ARRIVE Sections are listed around the circumference of the chart starting with Title at twelve o’clock.
The line represents the percentage of sub-items (e.g. species) reported for all studies per Section (e.g. Methods). For example, for the Section Title (84%) we summed the total number of reported ‘yes’ sub-items (119) and then divided it by the number of independent sub-items (3) multiplied by the total number of studies (47): 119/(3*47) = 0.84.
Fig 3.
The 17 ARRIVE items are listed around the circumference of the chart starting with title at twelve o’clock.
The line represents the percentage of sub-items (e.g. species) reported for all studies per item (e.g. experimental animals). For example, for the item title (84%) we summed the total number of reported ‘yes’ sub-items (119) and then divided it by the number of independent sub-items (3) multiplied by the total number of studies (47): 119/(3*47) = 0.84.
Fig 4.
The six NIH ‘core’ reporting items are listed around the circumference of the chart starting with replicates at twelve o’clock.
The line represents the percentage of ARRIVE sub-items (e.g. was a sample size calculation conducted) reported ‘yes’ for all studies that matched with each NIH core item. ARRIVE sub-items matched with NIH items are listed in S4 Table.
Fig 5.
The ARRIVE sub-items that aligned with the NIH’s biological materials: animals reporting recommendation are listed around the circumference of the chart starting with species at twelve o’clock.
The line represents the percentage of 47 studies that reported the sub-item (e.g. all 47 studies reported the sub-item species).
Fig 6.
The ARRIVE sub-items that aligned with the NIH’s biological materials: cell lines reporting recommendation are listed around the circumference of the chart starting with species source at twelve o’clock.
The line represents the percentage of 47 studies that reported the sub-item (e.g. 96% of studies reported the sub-item species source).