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Table 1 Coding of comments obtained from social media

From: Re-evaluation of solutions to the problem of unprofessionalism in peer review

 

Total

Facebook

Twitter

Blogs

Reddit

Comment Received

N=96

N=18

N=64

N=8

N=6

Positive Comments

 Praise of study

57 (59%)

6 (30%)

45 (70%)

1 (13%)

5 (83%)

 Sharing personal experience

15 (16%)

1 (5%)

14 (22%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

Neegative Comments

 Unsubstantiated critique of study methodology

6 (6%)

0 (0%)

2 (3%)

4 (50%)

0 (0%)

 Forced niceness will weaken peer-review

5 (5%)

2 (10%)

2 (3%)

1 (13%)

0 (0%)

 Difficulty adopting perspective of others

6 (6%)

3 (15%)

2 (3%)

1 (13%)

0 (0%)

 Authors brought unprofessional comments upon themselves by submitting substandard work

5 (5%)

4 (22%)

1 (1%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

Not of relevance

2 (2%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1 (13%)

1 (17%)

Sharing over Social Media

Total

Facebook

Twitter

Blogs

Reddit

 Tweets / Retweets / Shared without comments

221

5

215

1

0

  1. Note. Some feedback sources contained more than one category of reviewer feedback, resulting in some columns which total more than 100%