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Retrieval, reporting and methodological characteristics for systematic reviews/meta-analyses of animal models: a meta-epidemiological study

Shuzhen SHI^{1, 2}, Ming LIU^{1, 2}, Wenjuan MA^{1, 2}, Ya GAO^{1, 2}, Long GE³, Xiping SHEN³, Jiarui WU⁴, Junhua ZHANG^{5, *}, Jinhui TIAN^{1, 2, *}

1 Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
2 Key Laboratory of Evidence-Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China
3 School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
4 Department of Clinical Chinese Pharmacy, School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
5 Evidence-Based Medicine Center, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

* Address correspondence to: Jinhui Tian, ; Junhua Zhang,