Transparency in peer review: Exploring the content and tone of reviewers’ confidential comments to editors

• Bridget C. O’Brien ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bridget.obrien@ucsf.eduj

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Office of Medical Education, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9591-5243

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• Anthony R. Artino Jr,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences, the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2661-7853

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• Joseph A. Costello,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Erik Driessen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Educational Development and Research, School of Health Profession Research, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

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• Lauren A. Maggio

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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