Rigor Table:

In the rigor table (Table 1), SciScore highlights sentences that include various elements of rigor as described by Hackam and Redelmeier in 2006, and by van der Warp and colleagues in 2010. SciScore was trained using sentences from thousands of published papers that were tagged by expert curators to indicate that the sentence described a rigor criterion such as blinding (either during the experiment or during data analysis). SciScore looks for items listed on the report and when an item is detected, the sentence is included, when an item is not detected, the tool reports "not detected". It is possible that a criterion is not necessary for a particular manuscript. In these cases, the score is not decreased by a "not detected". For example, if an IRB section is not filled in, but no animals or human participants are detected. SciScore, an automated tool, can also make a mistake. If SciScore makes substantial mistakes with your manuscript, please contact us to help us learn from our mistakes. Please see our FAQ section for more details.

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