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ArticleCanadian journal of kidney health and disease2022

Can Peer Review Be Kinder? Supportive Peer Review: A Re-Commitment to Kindness and a Call to Action.

Catherine M Clase, Elizabeth Dicks, Rachel Holden, Manish M Sood, Adeera Levin, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Linda W Moore, Susan J Bartlett, Aminu K Bello, Clara Bohm and 20 more

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Article in Canadian journal of kidney health and disease, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. KRESCENT; 2005-2025 - 20 years! Editorial.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2025
    Article
  2. Call to action: "no charge to submit or to publish".Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2023
    Article
  3. Fostering the Next Generation of Researchers: a Sustainable Mentoring Program for Early Career Toxicologists in Scientific Abstract Review.Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology · 2023
    Article
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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

30 authors.

Catherine M ClaseDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4538-5958
Elizabeth DicksCanadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, Canada.
Rachel HoldenDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6431-3127
Manish M SoodDepartment of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, ON, Canada.
Adeera LevinDepartment of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Kamyar Kalantar-ZadehUniversity of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA.
Linda W MooreHouston Methodist Hospital Department of Surgery, Houston, TX, USA.
Susan J BartlettDepartment of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Aminu K BelloDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Clara BohmDepartment of Internal Medicine, Chronic Disease Innovation Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Darren BridgewaterDepartment of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Josee BouchardDepartment of Medicine, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6869-7663
Dylan BurgerKidney Research Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Juan Jesús CarreroDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Maoliosa DonaldCumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, AB, Canada.
Meghan ElliottCumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5434-2917
Maya J GoldenbergDepartment of Philosophy, University of Guelph, ON, Canada.
Meg JardineNational Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Ngan N LamDivision of Nephrology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7091
W Joy MaddiganFaculty of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada.
François MadoreDepartment of Medicine, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada.
Thomas A MavrakanasDepartment of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Amber O MolnarDepartment of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4549-0202
G V Ramesh PrasadDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1576-7696
Claudio RigattoDepartment of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8306-8072
Karthik K TennankoreDepartment of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7919-6709
Elena TorbanDepartment of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Laurel TrainorDepartment of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Christine A WhiteDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Sunny HartwigUniversity of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8650-4856

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peer review aims to select articles for publication and to improve articles before publication. We believe that this process can be infused by kindness without losing rigor. In 2014, the founding editorial team of the

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humilitykindnesspeer reviewsupportive reviewtruth

Identifiers

PMID35514878
PMCPMC9067031

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