Research on the Coupling Co-ordination between Quality of County-Level New Urbanization and Ecosystem Service Value in Shaanxi Province

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1. In the "Introduction" section, the author's insufficient discussion on the research progress in the relevant field

2. The sources of some data in this study are not clearly explained. For example, the year and spatial resolution of Population Density and GDP Spatial Distribution Datasets.

3. Proper preprocessing is required before using the data. For example, in the evaluation of new urbanization, GDP and other indicators should consider factors such as inflation rate.

4. There are too many figures in the text, most of which are data explanatory figures that can be uploaded as attachments and do not need to be added to the main text.

5. The discussion was not sufficient and did not reflect the innovation of the article.

6. The conclusion is too lengthy.

7. There is an obvious mistake in this study, which is that the abstract mentions the use of data from three years, while the text uses data from four years.

8. Another obvious mistake in this article is that the author used three cross-sectional data instead of panel data. Panel data has a special spatial measurement method.

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Reviewer 2 Report

1- The title of the article does not exactly match the subject and the steps of the study. The authors have developed a framework or model to examine the coordination between urbanization and ecosystem services in specific years in a specific location. This is not well reflected in the title of the manuscript.

2- In most part of the manuscript, some sentences and words are nor correctly used and are unfamiliar to the field. You can replace more appropriate words. A number of corrections have been specified in the submitted file

3- The final index cannot be ranged without performing a prior step in which each indicator is ranged based on its defined limits and values in the real world.

4-In general, a lot of efforts have been made to collect data and information and prepare maps by authors, but it is necessary  to review and revise the content and method of their work. Applying a physics formula and generalizing it to the ecosystem and its services (which are extremely complicated and full of uncertainty) is questionable. At least about the values of the indicators and their correct grading, efforts should be made so that the final index range can be justified and defended in reality.

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 In the most part of the manuscript, sentences, words and literature have been used that are unfamiliar to the field.  It seems better to rewrite the entire text with the help of a native English speaker.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

No