Assessment of Literacy to Biotechnological Solutions for Environmental Sustainability in Portugal
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript reports on “Assessment of Literacy on Biotechnological Solutions for Environmental Sustainability”. The sample size and composition is good. However, the analysis of the data is limited which reduces the impact of the findings. The following are the queries which have to be addressed before considering this manuscript for publication:
1. The Abstract should include specific findings of the present work
2. Section 2.2 to include separate sub headings for air pollution, water pollution, global warming, and energy resources, highlighting the previous reported literature on literacy assessment and the research gaps.
3. How is the questionnaire comparable with the others available in literature? What is the knowledge addition in this regard?
4. The analysis of the information based on ANN is not sufficient. The extent of data represented and the explanations included in the text do not tally.
5. Conclusions should be specific and precise. There is no clear discussion and conclusion of the study.
6. The study reports segregation of the test groups based on age, education, gender etc. However, studies on the impact of these variables are not reported. This would be a useful data to understand group specific strategies to be adopted towards enhancing the literacy.
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Reviewer 2 Report
1- Enhance the English language of the manuscript
2- Describe in details the research design used in this study
3- State clearly the objective and hypothesis of this study
4- Add a table showing the characteristics of the respondents? (age, gender …)
5- Add the mean value for the Likert scale responses
6- The introduction part and state-of-art should be more brief
7- Economic situation of the respondents should be stated as well
8 8 - The significance of socio-demographic parameters on the Environmental literacy of the respondents should be taken into consideratione
The English language needs moderate modifications and the manuscript must be double checked for grammatical mistakes
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Reviewer 3 Report
The article is well presented and aims to evaluate the level of environmental literacy on biotechnological solutions for environmental sustainability in four areas, namely air pollution, water pollution, global warming, and energy resources.
1- Title needs to be comprehensive and descriptive, replace “on” with “to”.
2- The location of assessment shall be included in title, abstract and results.
3- The abstract is not well constructed and needs to be restated and author is recommended to take in consideration the following:
- The size of sample needs to be mentioned in abstract.
- Line 34 replace aged with age range.
4- In materials and methods line 329- 331 author stated that” A total of 471 questionnaires were returned out of the 500 distributed, 330 corresponding to a return rate of 94.2%.” But author did not mention reasons in results or discussion.
- Author shall mention the way of distribution of questionnaires, was it online or offline?
5- Figures (1-5) resolution in results needs to be upgraded.
6- Conclusions needs to be concise, focused (needs to be restated).
Some corrections are needed as in comments
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors have addressed all the comments
Reviewer 2 Report
The authors have addressed all the requested comments
Reviewer 3 Report
Thanks for considering all comments
