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ArticleThe world journal of men's health2026

Merit-based Academic Certification in Andrology: A Groundbreaking Initiative by the Global Andrology Forum.

Giovanni Colpi, Germar-Michael Pinggera, Aldo Calogero, Eric Chung, Rossella Cannarella, Taymour Mostafa, Ramadan Saleh, Ryan Smith, Ahmed El-Sakka, Selahittin Çayan and 6 more

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Article in The world journal of men's health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Giovanni ColpiAndrology and IVF Center, Next Fertiity Procrea, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-1777
Germar-Michael PinggeraGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6463-2494
Aldo CalogeroGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6950-335X
Eric ChungGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3373-3668
Rossella CannarellaGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4599-8487
Taymour MostafaGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3627-0662
Ramadan SalehGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0503-3533
Ryan SmithGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3880-9740
Ahmed El-SakkaGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8671-5952
Selahittin ÇayanGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4784-2208
Omer RaheemGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6117-116X
Haocheng LinGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5333-6611
Rajender SinghGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4592-6566
Ates KadiogluGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4239-7638
Rupin ShahGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7868-5949
Ashok AgarwalGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0585-1026

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID40583023
PMCPMC13302991

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