How frequent did each of the following situations happen to the respondents during journal peer review?* | Very rare/infrequent | Sometimes | Frequent/all the time |
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N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |
The duration of review period is longer than 6 months. | 815 (60.8) | 374 (27.9) | 151 (11.3) |
The duration of review is longer than a year. | 1231 (91.9) | 88 (6.6) | 21 (1.6) |
Encountering personal attacks in reviewers’ comments. | 1078 (80.4) | 235 (17.5) | 27 (2.0) |
Breach of confidentially of articles’ information by reviewers. | 1200 (89.6) | 126 (9.4) | 14 (1.0) |
Unauthorised use of articles’ information (e.g. authors’ ideas, data or methods) by reviewers after rejection of articles. | 1149 (85.7) | 174 (13.0) | 17 (1.3) |
Imposition of unnecessary references by reviewers. | 906 (67.6) | 338 (25.2) | 96 (7.2) |