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ArticleCBE life sciences education2021

Improving Academic Performance and Retention of First-Year Biology Students through a Scalable Peer Mentorship Program.

Mike Wilton, Daniel Katz, Anthony Clairmont, Eduardo Gonzalez-Nino, Kathy R Foltz, Rolf E Christoffersen

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Article in CBE life sciences education, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. So You Want to Teach a Field-Based Course: A Practical Toolkit for Teaching Teams.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mike WiltonDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and.
Daniel KatzGevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
Anthony ClairmontGevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
Eduardo Gonzalez-NinoDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and.
Kathy R FoltzDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and.
Rolf E ChristoffersenDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and.
Institut thématique Génétique, génomique et bioinformatique · FRUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · US

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examine the impact of

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Academic PerformanceMentoringBiologyHumansMentorsStudents

Identifiers

PMID34618540
PMCPMC8715785
OpenAlexW3204327967

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Registered trials

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