It feels to me like authors' responses to peer review have shifted dramatically in the past few months. This may be a temporary thing and may be due to impacts of COVID on instruction and mentoring. But prior to this year, I have seen a very small number of poorly (in my view) prepared responses to reviewers from authors. In the last six months I estimate I have seen more poorly prepared response than in the last several years combined. As with my prior posts - written from the author view - there are two main categories of problems: 1) no organized response to reviewer comments; 2) deciding, arbitrarily, or based on preference, or energy or something else, what to respond to. tAs a peer reviewer, I typically spend several hours reading, writing, reorganizing, and explaining my recommendations. I refer to line number when provided and I sometimes provide two lists - broader items first, followed by minor items including grammatical errors, word use errors, reference list or other formatting errors, etc. I provide a great deal of feedback most of the time, even when my recommendation is "reject."
As an author, I take these reviewer comments - usually two or three sets - create a table, paste in one comment per row and create a second column for author response. Modeling other authors I have seen through the years, I reply to every comment, including offering thanks for a (not actionable) compliment. This is how I show students to work and how I work in a collaborative setting. Along with this, I/we typically prepare two manuscripts - one showing changes - I use colored font rather than Microsoft track changes because it is typically easier to follow - and one "clean" copy. And, as an aside, I am not particularly fond of reviewer use of track changes commenting on the document, other than for journals, such as TQR, where this is the norm and everyone does it. Otherwise, trying to reply to these on text and integrate responses with other reviewer comments provided as a separate list, is very difficult. If you delete text, you delete the comment. So my work around is to put these in a table as well, using a line number reference and often adding additional context that is not there when the comment is disassociated from the document. I appreciate this may be convenient for reviewers but it can add to the authors' work. What I keep seeing now include revised manuscripts with no supporting information, i.e., "here is our revised paper" or authors' brief summary of revisions they did - that consists of a partial response to select reviewer comments. Whatever the authors' intent, the message this sends is that they cannot be bothered to work through this process in the conventional way and are not willing to spend as much time in response as reviewers spent in review. It may instead indicate they have no prior experience in publishing or peer review, which is unfortunate, or they might have been "trained" by someone to work this way. I have responded back to authors by explaining that I cannot re-review the paper without knowing what was revised, and even describing to them what I hope to see, i.e., a list of comments with responses. But the more time goes by, the less many people seem to be concerned with details, accuracy, precision, etc. This does not bode well for the future of human science research - qualitative, quantitative, or mixed.
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AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
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