Paper Review Comments To Editor
You should definitely address each of the reviewers individually as you respond to his or her comments aiming for a layout that makes it absolutely clear which comment you are responding to at any given moment and exactly what you have changed in your manuscript.
Paper review comments to editor. Give constructive feedback describing ways that they could improve the research. The reviewer accuses the authors of plagiarism or other misconduct within the body of the review. Restate the reviewer s or editor s comment when responding.
Your paper may be assigned to the same reviewer by a different journal and he will not be impressed if he sees that his reviewer comments have been ignored. Doing so may seem impressive because you have now doubled the overall length of the peer review report but you have not added any value. Keep the focus on the research and not the author.
The editor encouraged the submission of the work and is eager to publish it but one review is very negative. Submitting your article to a journal is only the first step in the process to getting published. Editors say if a reviewer suggests a rejection but her his comments are not detailed or helpful it does not help the editor in making a decision in your recommendations for the author you should.
My tone is very formal scientific and in third person. If a reviewer compliments you about some aspect of the paper thank the individual. In the vast majority of cases papers will require at the very least some further changes or review based on the feedback from the journal editor and reviewers.
When you organize the review remember that the editor can see all of your comments to the authors so there is no reason to paste the same comments into the section containing the comments to the editor. Here s an example where the author felt it was not necessary to make any change and has tactfully suggested to the editor that the paper is aligned with other published research in this field. The review is replete with typographic errors.
It is very rare that journals accept articles without any amendments from the author s. The review is a single line this paper should be revised or this paper should be rejected. Overall i try to make comments that would make the paper stronger.