Reviewer's report
Title:Gastric emptying and small intestinal transit time and motility assessed by
a magnet tracking system
Version: 2Date:26 September 2011
Reviewer: Andreas Steingoetter
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for providing raw data in the tables.
Minor essential revisions:
1) The introduction is still difficult to read and follow. It appears to the reviewer
that the wording has not much improved. The reviewer recommends to put some
effort in rephrasing the important parts of the Introduction. Simply listing facts in
simple paragraphs may not be considered appropriate.
2) The wording in the revised parts should be improved. Watch out for typos.
3) Please provide correct units to all numbers listed. Also slope and time have
units.
4) Figures all still of poor design
5) Corrections and adaptations are required for the figure legends
a) Figure 1 and Figure 2 have the same title, but have different information
content
b) Figure 3 is still unclear to the reviewer. The title appears not appropriate. No
data comparison is provided. Why arbitrary unit on y-axis? Should be position or
angle?! The reviewer doesn't recognize anything on the provide images.
c) Figure 4, please provide a unit for time, i.e. 9:45 h.
d) Figure 5, the title should be somewhat like progression over time in the fasting
state
e)
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Reviewer's report
Title:Gastric emptying and small intestinal transit time and motility assessed by
a magnet tracking system
Version: 2Date:26 September 2011
Reviewer: Andreas Steingoetter
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for providing raw data in the tables.
Minor essential revisions:
1) The introduction is still difficult to read and follow. It appears to the reviewer
that the wording has not much improved. The reviewer recommends to put some
effort in rephrasing the important parts of the Introduction. Simply listing facts in
simple paragraphs may not be considered appropriate.
2) The wording in the revised parts should be improved. Watch out for typos.
3) Please provide correct units to all numbers listed. Also slope and time have
units.
4) Figures all still of poor design
5) Corrections and adaptations are required for the figure legends
a) Figure 1 and Figure 2 have the same title, but have different information
content
b) Figure 3 is still unclear to the reviewer. The title appears not appropriate. No
data comparison is provided. Why arbitrary unit on y-axis? Should be position or
angle?! The reviewer doesn't recognize anything on the provide images.
c) Figure 4, please provide a unit for time, i.e. 9:45 h.
d) Figure 5, the title should be somewhat like progression over time in the fasting
state
e)
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Gastric emptying and small intestinal transit time and motility assessed by
a magnet tracking system
Version: 2Date:26 September 2011
Reviewer: Andreas Steingoetter
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for providing raw data in the tables.
Minor essential revisions:
1) The introduction is still difficult to read and follow. It appears to the reviewer
that the wording has not much improved. The reviewer recommends to put some
effort in rephrasing the important parts of the Introduction. Simply listing facts in
simple paragraphs may not be considered appropriate.
2) The wording in the revised parts should be improved. Watch out for typos.
3) Please provide correct units to all numbers listed. Also slope and time have
units.
4) Figures all still of poor design
5) Corrections and adaptations are required for the figure legends
a) Figure 1 and Figure 2 have the same title, but have different information
content
b) Figure 3 is still unclear to the reviewer. The title appears not appropriate. No
data comparison is provided. Why arbitrary unit on y-axis? Should be position or
angle?! The reviewer doesn't recognize anything on the provide images.
c) Figure 4, please provide a unit for time, i.e. 9:45 h.
d) Figure 5, the title should be somewhat like progression over time in the fasting
state
e)
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
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