Dynamic Influence of Digital and Technological Advancement on Sustainable Economic Growth in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Countries
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The introduction of the study is not appealing. The knitting of the arguments and their connectivity is badly missing. The study did not justify the scientific originality/novelty in the existing literature. The introduction of the study failed to justify that the manuscript contains sufficient contributions to the new body of knowledge from the international perspective. The knowledge gap needs to be clearly addressed in the introduction section.
Literature survey is not sufficient to present the most updated R&D status for further justification of the originality of the manuscript. The author(s) should carry out a thorough literature survey of papers published in a range of top journals in the last three/four years so as to fully appreciate the latest findings and key challenges relating to the topic addressed in the manuscript and to allow the author(s) to more clearly present your contributions to the pool of existing knowledge.
The novelty of the subject, the methodology used and the similarity to other older or newer subjects should be explicitly addressed. The description of the proposed model is very rudimentary and needs to be further explained as no supporting arguments are crafted here in support of the chosen model.
The conclusions of this study are very general in nature. If so then such conclusion will not make any sense. The author should specify the contribution and novelty of this research ("which of these conclusions are new and not known to the scientific community").
References listed at the end need revision. For example, look at the journal name in the given two references. In ‘reference 52’ Sentence case is used, in ‘references 41 & 44’ Capitalize Each Word has been utilized and in ‘references 20, 22 & 23’ ALL CAP option is utilized. Further, few incomplete references are also noticed, see reference 22.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear authors,
about your article : "Dynamic Influence of Digital and Technological Advancement on Sustainable Economic Growth in Asian Region Partner Countries along Belt and Road " I think your research question is good and I do not detect any methodological inaccuracies. The research question is original and well defined, the analyses are presented in an appropriate way and also the appendix (A/B) is useful to allow a better reading of the paper through the explanation of the variables. The analysis is good, but the comment and discussion of the results in the table should be articulated in a better and more complete/ detailed, I also invite you to review the part of the conclusions.
Best Regards
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Reviewer 3 Report
The issue addressed in the paper “Dynamic Influence of Digital and Technological Advancement on Sustainable Economic Growth in Asian Region Partner Countries along Belt and Road”. The Authors proposed an important and interesting topic, compatible with the scope of the journal. Moreover, the author (s) briefly discusses the link among the all variables. This study itself is a new contribution to the current literature. However, there are some shortcomings throughout the text that need to be addressed. I wish you all the best in your work.
1. Title (Please rewrite the title that can best explain the whole theme of your paper). If possible please clearly write the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries.
2. Please also check the affiliation of author 2 National Financing Guarantee Fund. Is it correct?
3. Abstract (Minor)
Please correct the sentence on line 16-17.
4. The details of result should be deleted from the abstract. Line 22 need corrections.
Introduction (Major Comment)
1. The introduction section is too long and this is also not written very well. Please spend some time write a clearly and concisely.
2. If possible please add the BRI route image that is available on MERICS website. This will actually help the readers to know more about BRI project. The comments is still option, if you want to add these picture it can be found on
https://www.merics.org/en/tracker/mapping-belt-and-road-initiative-where-we-stand
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/24/7055
5. Literature review (Minor)
Despite the extensive literature review, there is a lack of current references related to the objects under study regarding the recent use of Dynamic Influence of Digital and Technological Advancement on Sustainable Economic Growth, the authors should provide more updated references.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2022.101732
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121724
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120797
6. The concise the discussion and conclusion part and write the main points. In the current form the discussion is a little more.
7. Please also add separate section of research limitation and future study.
8. Finally, again I will suggest to the author(s) to recheck the references section. In this paper I finds the references has a serious issue. I suggest you to solve this issue seriously before next round of review.
9. The language of the study is good but there is always a room for improvement. Therefore, the author shall rectify all kind of language errors/mistakes or the use of we, I etc. is not acceptable in formal research articles. So, with the help of proper proofread of the whole document such kind of issues can be addressed.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The author(s) have satisfactorily responded to all my questions and made the necessary changes to the manuscript. It looks ready for publication as far as I can tell.
Reviewer 3 Report
Congratulations. You paper has pass my review. Wish you best of luck
