<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v2.0 20040830//EN" "journalpublishing.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="2.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="reviewer-report"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">JMIRx Med</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">xmed</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="index">34</journal-id><journal-title>JMIRx Med</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title>JMIRx Med</abbrev-journal-title><issn pub-type="epub">2563-6316</issn><publisher><publisher-name>JMIR Publications</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Toronto, Canada</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">v7i1e95737</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2196/95737</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Peer-Review Report</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Peer Review of &#x201C;Awareness, Experiences, and Attitudes Toward Preprints Among Medical Academics: Convergent Mixed Methods Study&#x201D;</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Waltman</surname><given-names>Ludo</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><institution>Leiden University</institution><addr-line>Leiden</addr-line><country>The Netherlands</country></aff><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name name-style="western"><surname>Amal</surname><given-names>Saeed</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>17</day><month>4</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>7</volume><elocation-id>e95737</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>19</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>19</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></date></history><copyright-statement>&#x00A9; Ludo Waltman. Originally published in JMIRx Med (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://med.jmirx.org">https://med.jmirx.org</ext-link>), 17.4.2026. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIRx Med, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://med.jmirx.org/">https://med.jmirx.org/</ext-link>, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.</p></license><self-uri xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://xmed.jmir.org/2026/1/e95737"/><related-article related-article-type="companion" ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.2196/78139" xlink:title="Preprint (medRxiv)" xlink:type="simple">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.25325524v1</related-article><related-article related-article-type="companion" ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.2196/95735" xlink:title="Authors' Response to Peer-Review Reports" xlink:type="simple">https://med.jmirx.org/2026/1/e95735</related-article><related-article related-article-type="companion" ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.2196/78139" xlink:title="Published Article" xlink:type="simple">https://med.jmirx.org/2026/1/e78139</related-article><kwd-group><kwd>preprint</kwd><kwd>medical academics</kwd><kwd>publishing attitudes</kwd><kwd>editorial policies</kwd><kwd>survey</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><p><italic>This is a peer review report for &#x201C;Awareness, Experiences, and Attitudes Toward Preprints Among Medical Academics: Convergent Mixed Methods Study.&#x201D;</italic></p><sec id="s2"><title>Round 1 Review</title><p>This paper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>] offers valuable insights into attitudes toward preprinting at a medical institution in Istanbul. The research appears sound to me. The paper is clear and easy to read.</p><p>I have one important comment: I was unable to find the survey form. I urge the authors to make the survey form, and also the data collected in the survey, openly available. To interpret the results of the survey, it is important to have access to the underlying survey questions.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>Round 2 Review</title><p>In their response to my earlier comments and the comments of the other reviewer, the authors refer to supplementary material. I am unable to find this supplementary material. Where can I find it?</p><p>Apart from this issue, I am satisfied with the revised article. I have no suggestions for further improvements.</p></sec></body><back><fn-group><fn fn-type="conflict"><p>None declared.</p></fn></fn-group><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="ref1"><label>1</label><nlm-citation citation-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sevim</surname><given-names>M</given-names> </name><name name-style="western"><surname>Karamese</surname><given-names>B</given-names> </name><name name-style="western"><surname>Alparslan</surname><given-names>Z</given-names> </name></person-group><article-title>Awareness, experiences, and attitudes toward preprints among medical academics: convergent mixed methods study</article-title><source>JMIRx Med</source><year>2025</year><volume>7</volume><fpage>e78139</fpage><pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2196/78139</pub-id></nlm-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>