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        <article-title>Peer Review of “The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis”</article-title>
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            <surname>Meinert</surname>
            <given-names>Edward</given-names>
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        <season>Jul-Sep</season>
        <year>2021</year>
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        <day>22</day>
        <month>7</month>
        <year>2021</year>
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      <issue>3</issue>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>21</day>
          <month>6</month>
          <year>2021</year>
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          <day>21</day>
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        <kwd>COVID-19</kwd>
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        <kwd>online health</kwd>
        <kwd>online health communities</kwd>
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    <p>This is a peer-review report submitted for the paper “The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis”.</p>
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      <title>Round 1 Review</title>
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        <title>General Comments</title>
        <p>My comments are as follows:</p>
        <p>1. The authors [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>] did not review relevant existing works carefully. A number of studies on online health communities (OHCs) have been conducted already. You should compare your results with these relevant works.</p>
        <p>2. Although you have mentioned that one coder is a limitation, it is an evitable limitation and needs to be overcome, or how can you ensure the accuracy of the results? I suggest that the authors recode the posts and responses by two coders (at least) who are familiar with this field.</p>
        <p>3. What are the criteria by which you determine the name of the coding and the definition of the coding?</p>
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        <p>None declared.</p>
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              <surname>Jong</surname>
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              <surname>Liang</surname>
              <given-names>OS</given-names>
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            <name name-style="western">
              <surname>Yang</surname>
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          <year>2021</year>
          <month>07</month>
          <day>22</day>
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