Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to a new video on publishing your paper. If you have watched my previous video on how peer review process work, you might know about all the stages your paper goes through before it is finally published. If your paper has passed from editor to reviewer for being reviewed, it means it has the potential to get published. The reviewers are the experts in that area and send their suggestions or queries regarding your paper. Based on the extent of the concern or improvement, they send it back to the corresponding author through the editor for minor or major revisions. And to get the manuscript accepted, authors must consider the comments carefully. In today's video, you will learn how to respond appropriately to the comments received from reviewers. First of all, if your paper has come for revision receiving several comments, it does not mean the paper is not worthy. Stay optimistic. Take the reviewer's comment positively rather than being criticizing about it. Take it as an opportunity to improve your paper further. Reviewers take a lot of time from their busy schedule for reviewing your manuscript. Thank them for their efforts to review the paper and for suggesting the shortcomings. Authors are given few days to few weeks time depending upon the type of revision and corrections. So rather than quickly reacting to the comments, read each and every comment critically and find the suitable answer or solution for each of them and respond scientifically. While responding, do not beat around the bush writing unnecessary content. Write what is asked and what is relevant to the question. Else, this may increase the chances of rejection. Do not start writing the response sheet right away. Read each and every comment before making corrections and responding. This way you get to know whether the suggestions given are doable or not. Also, if there are common or similar comments, you may prepare the corrections and answers accordingly. Authors have to respond to each and every comment separately. Authors may choose to respond in tabular format or point-wise mentioning their query number, what was the query, followed by the response. If there are more than one reviewer, then answer reviewer-wise. Unless mentioned, do all the corrections in track changes mode and also provide a clean revised version of the manuscript. This way the reviewers will know what changes were made. In the response sheet, include what text was replaced with what or what new was inserted along with its page number and line number. This eases the reviewer's work to search the whole document. If last text or paragraph is modified, you may just mention the page number and the line numbers. Answering to the reviewer's comment is an art. Response to the comment should be such that the comments are properly and politely addressed. If you think the raised question is genuine, then acknowledge and make the required changes. If you think the raised question is not appropriate, you still need to answer tactfully, disagreeing giving appropriate justification. If some additional experiment or work is asked and you can do it, then just do it. But if performing experiments is not possible, justify it with a reason. If two reviewers are making contrasting comments, choose to adhere to one, responding the other with a reason. If any changes were made in the figures or the tables, the same needs to be uploaded and mentioned in the response sheet. Along with the response sheet, attach a new cover letter thanking the editor and reviewer for considering your manuscript. Mention that all the comments have been addressed and manuscript is being revised. Before submitting the revised manuscript and response sheet, get them checked by other authors. Check if every comment is properly answered and desired changes are made in the manuscript. Take care to provide right page number and line number in the response. I am sure this video will increase the possibility of your paper to get accepted. So that's all for the today's video. If you like it, do share with your colleagues. If I missed something important, do mention in the comments. Subscribe and hit the bell icon to get notified about my latest uploads. Check my playlist about the research-related topics and publishing. And see you in my next video.