a response to reviewers' comments is required when submitting a revised manuscript: Many journals simply state that response should be made in a point-by-point manner and indicate all revisions. How to format a response is not stated in the Recommendation of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [1]. The first author (SM) wrote 531 PubMed-indexed papers and reviewed 2491 manuscripts (Web of Science) [2], and based on our experience we propose a reviewer-friendly response format ([Table 1]).
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