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

doi:10.1177/20543581221080327

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 MaddiganFrançois 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

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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.”

Original language	English
Journal	Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/20543581221080327
Publication status	Published - 2022

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The editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease and first author of this paper lives and works in the city of Hamilton, situated upon the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas. This land is covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, which was an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. She further acknowledges that this land is covered by the Between the Lakes Purchase, 1792, between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Our editors, many of our reviewers, and some of our authors live across Turtle Island (North America). We recognize that we must do more to learn about the rich history of this land so that we can better understand our roles as residents, neighbors, partners, and caretakers. The authors offer their gratitude to the First Nations for their care for, and teachings about, our earth and our relations. They honor the Indigenous teachings of Leading, Learning, Looking, and Listening. Their purpose is to promote the clear communication of facts that are true and ideas that are wise to improve the health and well being of all people. By improving, publishing, and disseminating the work of others, we seek to promote kidney health, prevent kidney disease, and to help people with kidney disease to lead their most fulfilled lives. We acknowledge and implement the 7 teachings: wisdom, love, respect, bravery, honesty, humility, and truth. May we honor those teachings in all our work. We thank the editors of Nephron for thoughtful feedback on an earlier draft. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Clase, C. M., Dicks, E., Holden, R., Sood, M. M., Levin, A., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Moore, L. W., Bartlett, S. J., Bello, A. K., Bohm, C., Bridgewater, D., Bouchard, J., Burger, D., Carrero, J. J., Donald, M., Elliott, M., Goldenberg, M. J., Jardine, M., Lam, N. N., ... Hartwig, S. (2022). Can Peer Review Be Kinder? Supportive Peer Review: A Re-Commitment to Kindness and a Call to Action. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/20543581221080327

Clase, CM, Dicks, E, Holden, R, Sood, MM, Levin, A, Kalantar-Zadeh, K, Moore, LW, Bartlett, SJ, Bello, AK, Bohm, C, Bridgewater, D, Bouchard, J, Burger, D, Carrero, JJ, Donald, M, Elliott, M, Goldenberg, MJ, Jardine, M, Lam, NN, Maddigan, WJ, Madore, F, Mavrakanas, TA, Molnar, AO, Prasad, GVR, Rigatto, C, Tennankore, KK, Torban, E, Trainor, L, White, CA & Hartwig, S 2022, 'Can Peer Review Be Kinder? Supportive Peer Review: A Re-Commitment to Kindness and a Call to Action', Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, vol. 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/20543581221080327

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