The number of articles published monthly between January–July 2017 in the American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology (Am J Physiol Renal Physiol) (A) Kidney International (Kidney Int) (B), and the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (J Am Soc Nephrol) (C) as a function of the sex of the animals studied ± SE. In addition to reviewing the methods, figure and table legends for each article, the entire article was electronically searched for the terms: male, man, men, female, woman, women, sex, and gender.