Peer Review of Reviewers: The Author’s Perspective
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. General Data
3.2. Data Analysis—Mixed-Effects Model
3.3. The Content Analysis of Textual Answers
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Journal Name (ISSN) | No. of Responses | Portion, % |
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The Archives of Biological Sciences (1821-4339) | 11 | 5.7 |
Chemical Industry & Chemical Engineering Quarterly (2217-7434) | 20 | 10.4 |
Društvena istraživanja (1848-6096) | 2 | 1.0 |
Hemijska industrija/Chemical Industry (2217-7426) | 7 | 3.6 |
International Comparative Jurisprudence (2351-6674) | 2 | 1.0 |
International Journal of the Commons (1875-0281) | 1 | 0.5 |
Journal of Electrochemical Science and Engineering (1847-9286) | 16 | 8.3 |
Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society (1820-7421) | 106 | 54.9 |
Ljetopis socijalnog rada/Annual of Social Work (1848-7971) | 10 | 5.2 |
Mljekarstvo (1846-4025) | 1 | 0.5 |
Muzikologija (2406-0976) | 14 | 7.3 |
Pravni zapisi (2406-1387) | 1 | 0.5 |
Preventivna pedijatrija (2466-3247) | 2 | 1.0 |
Question | Average Grade (No. of Responses) | ||
---|---|---|---|
Acc. (179) | Rej. (14) | Total (193) | |
After how many weeks, after submitting the manuscript, did you get reports? | 8.2 | 16.1 | 8.8 |
How many reports have you received? | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.8 |
Did the reviewer show reasonable understanding of your work? (1—not at all… 5—fully) | 4.5 | 2.6 | 4.4 |
Do you think that the reviewer was competent to review your paper? (1—not at all… 5—fully competent) | 4.6 | 2.8 | 4.5 |
According to your estimation, did the reviewer carefully and thoroughly read the paper? (1—not at all… 5—yes, very carefully and thoroughly) | 4.7 | 3.0 | 4.6 |
Were the reviewer’s comments clear? (1—not at all… 5—yes, completely clear) | 4.7 | 2.6 | 4.6 |
Did the reviewer’s comments, suggestions… help you to improve the quality of the paper? (1—not at all… 5—yes, very much) | 4.5 | 2.5 | 4.4 |
Do you think that the reviewer’s comments, suggestions… will be useful for your upcoming research? (1—not at all… 5—very useful) | 4.3 | 2.5 | 4.2 |
According to your impression, did the reviewer dedicate sufficient time to review? (1—not at all… 5—adequate time) | 4.5 | 3.2 | 4.4 |
Please give an overall assessment grade of the reviewer (1—Bad… 10—Excellent) | 8.9 | 4.7 | 8.7 |
Duration of the survey completion (sec) | 1164 | 1381 | 1246 |
Random Effects | |||||
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Group Name | SD 1 | ||||
Author (Intercept) | 0.968 | ||||
Journal (Intercept) | 0.335 | ||||
Residual | 1.418 | ||||
Fixed Effects | Estimate | SE 2 | df | t | p |
(Intercept) | 8.482 | 0.471 | 156.18 | 18.023 | 0.000 *** |
No. of weeks | −0.027 | 0.013 | 220.33 | 2.037 | 0.043 * |
No. of reports | −0.259 | 0.131 | 155.35 | 1.974 | 0.050 * |
Final decision: Rejected | −4.106 | 0.484 | 248.66 | 8.491 | 0.000 *** |
Speed: On time | 1.122 | 0.352 | 189.19 | 3.188 | 0.002 ** |
Speed: Fast | 1.317 | 0.402 | 185.89 | 3.277 | 0.001 ** |
Coefficients | Estimate | SE | T | p |
---|---|---|---|---|
(Intercept) | 8.052 | 0.215 | 37.479 | 0.000 *** |
No. of weeks | −0.005 | 0.006 | −0.890 | 0.375 |
No. of reports | −0.026 | 0.066 | −0.392 | 0.695 |
Final decision: Rejected | −0.165 | 0.259 | −0.637 | 0.525 |
Speed: On time | 0.738 | 0.169 | 4.369 | 0.000 *** |
Speed: Fast | 0.838 | 0.194 | 4.321 | 0.000 *** |
Competence factor | 1.423 | 0.067 | 21.101 | 0.000 *** |
Helpfulness factor | 1.024 | 0.055 | 18.678 | 0.000 *** |
Coefficients | Estimate | SE | t | p |
---|---|---|---|---|
(Intercept) | 0.336 | 0.237 | 1.422 | 0.157 |
No. of weeks | −0.010 | 0.007 | −1.420 | 0.157 |
No. of reports | −0.162 | 0.072 | −2.240 | 0.026 * |
Final decision: Rejected | −2.173 | 0.245 | −8.867 | 0.000 *** |
Speed: On time | 0.234 | 0.186 | 1.255 | 0.211 |
Speed: Fast | 0.228 | 0.213 | 1.073 | 0.285 |
Decision coherent: No | 0.298 | 0.372 | 0.801 | 0.424 |
Coefficients | Estimate | SE | T | p |
---|---|---|---|---|
(Intercept) | −0.216 | 0.290 | −0.743 | 0.459 |
No. of weeks | −0.014 | 0.008 | −1.704 | 0.090 |
No. of reports | 0.075 | 0.089 | 0.844 | 0.400 |
Final decision: Rejected | −0.771 | 0.301 | −2.566 | 0.011 * |
Speed: On time | 0.233 | 0.228 | 1.020 | 0.310 |
Speed: Fast | 0.335 | 0.261 | 1.283 | 0.201 |
Decision coherent: No | 0.576 | 0.456 | 1.264 | 0.208 |
Question | Average Grade (No. of Responses) | ||
---|---|---|---|
Acc. | Rej. | Total | |
Did the reviewer’s comments, suggestions… help you to improve the quality of the paper? (1—not at all… 5—yes, very much). If you wish, please state how? | 4.6 (36) | 2.0 (4) | 4.3 (40) |
Did you have an impression that some non-scientific factor influenced the review and the final reviewer’s suggestion? * Please explain. | Yes (5) | Yes (3) | Yes (8) |
Category | Subcategory | No. of Responses |
---|---|---|
Authors satisfaction with reviewers’ comments and suggestions for improvement of paper quality | Improvement of the specific part of the paper | 13 |
General satisfaction | 7 | |
Additional explanation | 5 | |
Increase of actuality | 2 | |
Benefit for future work | 2 | |
Elimination of unnecessary data | 2 | |
Different formulation | 2 | |
Conceptual changes | 1 | |
Total | 34 |
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Drvenica, I.; Bravo, G.; Vejmelka, L.; Dekanski, A.; Nedić, O. Peer Review of Reviewers: The Author’s Perspective. Publications 2019, 7, 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7010001
Drvenica I, Bravo G, Vejmelka L, Dekanski A, Nedić O. Peer Review of Reviewers: The Author’s Perspective. Publications. 2019; 7(1):1. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7010001
Chicago/Turabian StyleDrvenica, Ivana, Giangiacomo Bravo, Lucija Vejmelka, Aleksandar Dekanski, and Olgica Nedić. 2019. "Peer Review of Reviewers: The Author’s Perspective" Publications 7, no. 1: 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7010001