Conceptualizing How Collaboration Advances Circularity

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Please revise the paper by addressing the following issues:

1.      Highlight the problem statement and clearly relate to the research questions.

2.      Would you please reason both the novelty and the relevance of your paper goals?

3.      Methodology and Descriptive findings both are numbered as 3. Methodology should be 2 and Descriptive findings should be 3.

4.      The conclusion is pretty generic and fails to provide any improvement in the existing knowledge base.

5.      Please include some practical implications of your study findings in the conclusion.

6.      Limitations and future research should be discussed under separate heading after conclusion.

7.      References require some revisions for uniformity in pattern according to the style recommended by the Journal.

Please proof read the manuscript before submitting the revision. 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper is about the current policy that highly developed countries are pursuing - the circular economy. The SLR methodology is a good method and the scientific databases used (Scopus and WoS) are global and important for science. The authors have described the methodology - bibliometrics - well, but I miss in the paper the results of the analysis performed in a more elaborated version. The authors themselves state that they selected 1,481 papers from the databases, but in Fig. 1 (Finally) is 66 papers (please do not use artilces but scientific publications).

What I miss in this paper are the results of the analysis in graphical form (maps, graphs, e.g. using VOSview, which directly pulls the results from the database according to the key the authors adopt, and presents the keyword links, as well as identifying the areas of research. I miss this very much and believe that this form of presentation of the results of database searches, or another graphical form, should occur.

I would ask the authors to look at the work of other researchers who used bibliometric analysis and see how other authors show the results of their research.

 

After performing an in-depth analysis, the conclusion, see abstract line 11 -13, . Our key finding is the role that multilevel collaboration plays in facilitating a transition from a linear economy to a circular economy. We highlight intermediaries as important accelerators in this transition, will be more detailed, as this one is (seems to be) obvious.

Please accept my comments kindly, the paper needs to be enriched with graphic forms of the research results so that the Reader can better understand the topic of the paper.

Best wishes

reviewer

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Reviewer 3 Report

The main concern is the need for the study and the novelty of the study. 

Increase the quality of the figures. Use the same font of figures. ?Capitalise the first letter of the figures where necessary.   

 

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors

I accepted the paper.

 Thank you