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. 2024 Sep 19;12:e18002. doi: 10.7717/peerj.18002

Table 4. Quality assessment of included studies.

Reference Group I: test substance identification Group II: test system characterization Group III: study design description Group IV: study results documentation Group V: Plausibility of study design and data Total Reliability Category
Urano, Morikawa & Komano (2013); Urano, Morikawa & Komano (2013) 3 3 3 3 2 14 Reliable with restrictions
Joshi et al. (2013); Joshi et al. (2013) 3 3 4 3 2 15 Reliable without restrictions
Mercier et al. (2013); Mercier et al. (2013) 3 3 5 2 2 15 Reliable without restrictions
Anderson et al. (2014); Anderson et al. (2014) 3 3 4 3 2 15 Reliable without restrictions
Xia et al. (2015); Xia et al. (2015) 3 3 6 3 2 17 Reliable without restrictions
Chaudhary et al. (2016); Chaudhary et al. (2016) 3 3 4 3 2 15 Reliable without restrictions
Joshi, Maidji & Stoddart (2016); Joshi, Maidji & Stoddart (2016) 3 3 6 3 2 17 Reliable without restrictions
Painter, Zaikos & Collins (2017); Painter, Zaikos & Collins (2017) 3 3 4 2 2 14 Reliable with restrictions
Mbonye et al. (2018); Mbonye et al. (2018) 3 3 4 2 2 14 Reliable with restrictions
Ko et al. (2019); Ko et al. (2019) 3 3 4 3 2 15 Reliable without restrictions
Priyanka Wadhwa et al. (2020) 3 3 5 3 2 16 Reliable without restrictions
Chand, Iyer & Mitra (2021) 3 3 5 3 2 16 Reliable without restrictions
Iyer, Mitra & Mitra (2022) 3 3 6 3 2 17 Reliable without restrictions
Chand et al. (2023) 3 3 5 3 2 16 Reliable without restrictions