Table 4 Comparison of responses between native and non-native English speaking respondents
English as the first language | English as the second language | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rare/infrequent | Sometimes | Frequent/all the time | Rare/infrequent | Sometimes | Frequent/all the time | Chi squared value | p value | |
N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |||
Undesirable experiences | ||||||||
Personal attacks | 512 (83.8) | 93 (15.2) | 6 (1.0) | 566 (77.7) | 142 (19.5) | 21 (2.9) | ||
Breach of confidentiality | 552 (90.4) | 55 (9.0) | 4 (0.7) | 648 (88.8) | 71 (9.7) | 10 (1.3) | ||
Unauthorised use of articles’ information after rejection of articles | 528 (86.4) | 75 (12.3) | 8 (1.3) | 621 (85.2) | 99 (13.6) | 9 (1.2) | ||
Imposition of unnecessary references | 435 (71.2) | 130 (21.3) | 46 (7.5) | 471 (64.6) | 208 (28.5) | 50 (6.8) | ||
Strongly disagree/Disagree | Neutral | Strongly agree/Agree | Strongly disagree/Disagree | Neutral | Strongly agree/Agree | Chi squared value | p value | |
N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |||
Journal peer review is: | ||||||||
fair | 122 (19.9) | 169 (27.7) | 320 (52.3) | 182 (25.0) | 218 (29.9) | 329 (45.2) | 7.8 | 0.02* |
transparent | 276 (45.2) | 172 (28.2) | 163 (26.7) | 334 (45.8) | 221 (30.3) | 174 (23.8) | 1.6 | 0.5 |
scientific | 158 (25.8) | 184 (30.1) | 269 (44.0) | 146 (20.0) | 215 (29.5) | 368 (50.5) | 7.9 | 0.02* |
free from interference | 299 (48.9) | 184 (30.1) | 128 (21.0) | 360 (49.4) | 242 (33.2) | 127 (17.5) | 3.2 | 0.2 |
Editors should: | ||||||||
give an article a fair hearing by sending to peer review and avoid personal bias | 109 (17.9) | 207 (33.9) | 295 (48.3) | 135 (18.5) | 299 (41.0) | 295 (40.5) | 9.2 | 0.01* |
screen for unfair comments | 113 (18.5) | 196 (32.1) | 302 (49.4) | 172 (23.6) | 250 (34.3) | 307 (42.1) | 8.5 | 0.01* |
Reviewers | ||||||||
Anonymity of reviewers | 125 (20.5) | 85 (13.9) | 401 (65.6) | 146 (20.0) | 119 (16.3) | 464 (63.7) | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Not require to declare conflict of interest | 552 (90.4) | 25 (4.1) | 34 (5.6) | 573 (78.6) | 75 (10.3) | 81 (11.1) | 34.5 | <0.001** |
Competent in general | 153 (25.1) | 206 (33.7) | 252 (41.2) | 153 (21.0) | 297 (40.7) | 279 (38.3) | 7.5 | 0.02* |
Anonymity of authors | 144 (23.6) | 119 (19.5) | 348 (56.9) | 152 (20.8) | 145 (19.9) | 432 (59.3) | 1.4 | 0.5 |
Appeal system in every journal | 98 (16.0) | 90 (14.7) | 423 (69.3) | 100 (13.7) | 145 (19.9) | 484 (66.4) | 6.7 | 0.04* |