Navigating PROSPERO4animals: 10 top tips for efficient pre-registration of your animal systematic review protocol.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis is a methodological assistance article, we do not generate any new data via experiments, and we do not present any sensitive data, therefore, ethical approval is not required for this article. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding We acknowledge funding from National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR, UK) for supporting the PROSPERO platform. ABB is a systematic review methodologist who receives research funding from Charité 3R Department and Volkswagen Stiftung to support preclinical systematic review. TR receives funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The funding bodies played no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript."