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Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis”

Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis”

Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis”

Authors of this article:

Wesley Jong1 Author Orcid Image ;   Ou Stella Liang2 Author Orcid Image ;   Christopher C Yang2 Author Orcid Image
Article Authors Cited by Tweetations (2) Metrics

    Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews

    1College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    2College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    *these authors contributed equally

    Corresponding Author:

    Christopher C Yang, PhD

    College of Computing and Informatics

    Drexel University

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    Office 1186

    Philadelphia, PA, 10094

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    Phone: 1 267 648 4077

    Email: chris.yang@drexel.edu



    This is the authors’ response to peer-review reports for “The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis”.


    Responses to Editors

    M. Addressed [1].

    Q. Addressed.

    U. Addressed.

    Reviewer AB [2]

    Specific Comments
    Major Comments

    1. Addressed.

    2. Addressed.

    3. Addressed.

    4. Addressed.

    5. Addressed. What we were trying to convey is that people who offered information were more likely to post more than once judging by their action of responding to others’ information requests.

    6. Emotional support is an interesting topic, but it is out of the scope of this study.

    7. We are unable to address this comment at this moment, as studies on other public health emergencies with comparable findings are limited.

    Minor Comments

    8. Addressed.

    9. Addressed.

    10. Addressed.

    11. Addressed.

    12. Addressed.

    Anonymous [3]:

    General Comments

    1. Addressed.

    2. We are unable to address this comment at this moment.

    3. Please refer to the Methodology section, where previous studies on which our coding ontology is based are cited.

    1. Jong W, Liang OS, Yang CC. The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis. JMIRx Med 2021 Jul 22;2(3):e27485 [FREE Full text] [CrossRef]
    2. El Sharif R. Peer review of "The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis". JMIRx Med 2021 Jul 22;2(3):e31423 [FREE Full text] [CrossRef]
    3. Anonymous. Peer review of "The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis". JMIRx Med 2021 Jul 22;2(3):e31416 [FREE Full text] [CrossRef]

    Edited by E Meinert; This is a non–peer-reviewed article. submitted 21.06.21; accepted 21.06.21; published 22.07.21

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    ©Wesley Jong, Ou Stella Liang, Christopher C Yang. Originally published in JMIRx Med (https://med.jmirx.org), 22.07.2021.

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