Table 4.

Review reports, number, quality and difficulty of requested changes (scale 0–5)

	Review reports	Quality review reports	Difficulty of requested changes	Resulting improvement
All scientific fields	2.2	3.6	2.8	3.7
General	2.2	3.4	3.0	3.7
Natural sciences	2.2	3.7	2.7	3.7
Engineering	2.3	3.7	2.7	3.7
Mathematics and Computer sciences	2.0	3.5	2.6	3.7
Medicine	2.2	3.6	2.8	3.7
Public health	2.2	3.7	2.6	3.7
Psychology	2.2	3.4	3.2	3.7
Economics and Business	2.1	3.4	3.3	3.9
Social sciences	2.3	3.6	3.2	3.8
Humanities	2.1	3.6	2.9	3.9