Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease (Apr 2022)
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,
- Darren Bridgewater,
- Josee Bouchard,
- Dylan Burger,
- Juan Jesús Carrero,
- Maoliosa Donald,
- Meghan Elliott,
- Maya J. Goldenberg,
- Meg Jardine,
- Ngan N. Lam,
- W. Joy Maddigan,
- François Madore,
- Thomas A. Mavrakanas,
- Amber O. Molnar,
- G. V. Ramesh Prasad,
- Claudio Rigatto,
- Karthik K. Tennankore,
- Elena Torban,
- Laurel Trainor,
- Christine A. White,
- Sunny Hartwig
Affiliations
- Catherine M. Clase
- Department of Medicine, St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Elizabeth Dicks
- Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, Canada
- Rachel Holden
- Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
- Manish M. Sood
- Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, ON, Canada
- Adeera Levin
- Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
- University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA
- Linda W Moore
- Houston Methodist Hospital Department of Surgery, Houston, TX, USA
- Susan J. Bartlett
- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Aminu K. Bello
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Clara Bohm
- Department of Internal Medicine, Chronic Disease Innovation Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Darren Bridgewater
- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Josee Bouchard
- Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada
- Dylan Burger
- Kidney Research Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Juan Jesús Carrero
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Maoliosa Donald
- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
- Meghan Elliott
- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
- Maya J. Goldenberg
- Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
- Meg Jardine
- National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Ngan N. Lam
- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
- W. Joy Maddigan
- Faculty of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
- François Madore
- Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada
- Thomas A. Mavrakanas
- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Amber O. Molnar
- Department of Medicine, St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, ON, Canada
- G. V. Ramesh Prasad
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
- Claudio Rigatto
- Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Karthik K. Tennankore
- Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Canada
- Elena Torban
- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Laurel Trainor
- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Christine A. White
- Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
- Sunny Hartwig
- University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/20543581221080327
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9
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 Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease (CJKHD) made an explicit commitment to treat authors as we would wish to be treated ourselves. This broader group of authors reaffirms this principle, for which we suggest the terminology “supportive review.”
