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. 2010 Aug 10;341:c3926. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c3926

Table 3.

 Editors’ and critics’ opinions of adequacy of authors’ replies in 40 cases. Values are numbers (percentages)

Adequacy of replies to criticism* Editor 1† Editor 2† Critics†
Fully addressed 29 (73) 27 (68) 6 (15)
Partly addressed 7 (18) 7 (18) 16 (40)
Not addressed 4 (10) 6 (15) 18 (45)

*Scale from 1 (fully addressed) to 3 (not addressed).

†Mean rating 1.4 for editors and 2.3 for critics (P<0.001).