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ArticleThe world journal of men's health2026

Areas of Controversy and Confusion in Male Infertility: A Call for Clarity.

Mohamed Arafa, Tuncay Toprak, Edmund Ko, Rupin Shah, Armand Zini, Eric Chung, Selahittin Cayan, Germar-Michael Pinggera, Widi Atmoko, Tan Le and 15 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. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing 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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

25 authors.

Mohamed ArafaDepartment of Andrology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0107-8857
Tuncay ToprakGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1348-5273
Edmund KoGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7465-3616
Rupin ShahGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7868-5949
Armand ZiniGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2194-5578
Eric ChungGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3373-3668
Selahittin CayanGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4784-2208
Germar-Michael PinggeraGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6463-2494
Widi AtmokoGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7793-7083
Tan LeGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1766-7453
Ayman RashedGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1994-2228
Taras ShatylkoGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3902-9236
Akira TsujimuraGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3821-5184
Hyun Jun ParkGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0566-9574
Hussein KandilGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-3274
Manaf Al HashmiGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2458-179X
Marco FalconeGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1101-892X
Celeste ManfrediGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9706-8516
Haocheng LinGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5333-6611
Andrian JapariGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4733-6313
Manh Nguyen TruongGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5924-841X
Mohammed Abdulgabbar NomanGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8813-6282
Jean de la RosetteGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6308-1763
Walter D Cardona MayaGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0062-6444
Ashok AgarwalGlobal Andrology Forum, Global Andrology Foundation, Moreland Hills, Ohio, 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

PMID41508387
PMCPMC13646309

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