收到审稿意见,尤其是“大修 (Major Revision)”,是每位投稿者既兴奋又紧张的时刻。兴奋在于论文没有被直接拒绝,离成功发表仅一步之遥;紧张在于审稿人提出的意见可能尖锐而繁多,不知从何下手。
请记住,您如何回应这些意见,其重要性不亚于您对论文本身的修改。一份专业、周到、高情商的“Response to Reviewers”回复信,是说服编辑和审稿人、让您的稿件顺利通过的“临门一脚”。本指南将为您提供从心态建设到具体范例的全方位策略。

一、 心态建设:从“被审判”到“求共识”
在动笔之前,请先调整好心态。
- 审稿人是“盟友”,不是“敌人”:请坚信,所有审稿意见的初衷都是为了帮助您提升论文质量。他们是您“免费的专家顾问”,正以批判性的眼光帮助您发现研究的潜在弱点。
- 全面回应,而非选择性回应:必须对审稿人提出的每一条意见都做出回应,哪怕只是一个标点符号的建议。忽略任何一点都可能被视为不严谨或不尊重。
- 先处理情绪,再处理问题:刚看到尖锐的批评时,感到沮丧或抵触是正常反应。建议您将审稿意见放一两天,待情绪平复后,再以客观、开放的心态去阅读和分析。
二、 黄金结构:打造一份清晰专业的回复信
一份专业的回复信应该结构清晰,让编辑和审稿人能轻松地将您的回复与原文、修改稿对应起来。
- Part 1: 开篇致谢与总体概述
- 在信的开头,首先真诚地感谢编辑和每一位审稿人付出的时间和提出的宝贵意见。
- 接着,用一段话高度概括您在本次修改中所做的主要工作。例如:“根据审稿人的宝贵建议,我们对稿件进行了大幅修改,包括补充了一组新的验证实验、重写了引言部分,并对图表进行了高清重制。”
- Part 2: 逐点回应 (Point-by-Point Response)
- 这是回复信的主体。请将编辑和每一位审稿人的意见分开,逐一回应。
- 标准格式:
- 完整复制审稿人的原始意见。
- 在其下方,用“Response:”或“回复:”开头,撰写您的回复。
- 在回复中,首先再次感谢审稿人提出该问题,然后详细说明您如何进行了修改,并明确指出修改在文中的具体位置(例如:页码、段落、行号或图表编号)。
- Part 3: 结尾致谢
- 在信的结尾,再次感谢编辑和审稿人,并表达希望修改稿能够满足期刊发表要求的愿望。
三、 “高情商”回复范例:应对三类典型意见
范例一:完全同意并已修改(最常见)
这类意见是“送分题”,请清晰回应。
- 审稿意见 (Reviewer Comment): "The authors should compare their method with the recently published ABC algorithm."
- 高情商回复 (High-EQ Response): "Response: We thank the reviewer for this excellent suggestion. The ABC algorithm is indeed a highly relevant and state-of-the-art baseline. In the revised manuscript, we have added a new subsection (Section 4.3) to specifically compare our method with the ABC algorithm. The results, as shown in the new Table 3 (Page 8), indicate that our proposed method achieves a 10% higher accuracy. We believe this new comparison significantly strengthens our paper."
范例二:审稿人误解,需要澄清
审稿人的误解,通常源于我们原文的表述不清。回复时应先“揽责”,再澄清。
- 审稿意见 (Reviewer Comment): "The authors claim their method works in real-time, but no data is provided to support this."
- 高情-商回复 (High-EQ Response): "Response: We thank the reviewer for pointing out this ambiguity. We apologize that our initial description was not sufficiently clear. The real-time performance data was indeed included in the original manuscript but was located in the appendix. To make this crucial result more prominent, we have now moved the performance analysis from the appendix to the main text in Section 4.4 (Page 9), and added a new Figure 5 to visually illustrate the processing time per frame. We believe this revision has now clearly addressed the reviewer's concern."
范例三:无法完全同意,需要礼貌反驳 (Rebuttal)
这是最考验情商的环节。反驳的关键在于尊重、有理、有据、有节。
- 审稿意见 (Reviewer Comment): "I suggest the authors conduct an additional experiment using a different type of dataset (e.g., Dataset X) to prove the generalizability."
- 高情商回复 (High-EQ Response): "Response: We thank the reviewer for this very insightful and forward-looking suggestion. We agree that testing our method on Dataset X would be a valuable next step to further explore its generalizability. However, due to the specific constraints of our current research scope, which focuses on [您研究的特定范围], and the significant resources required to acquire and process Dataset X, we believe that a thorough investigation on this new dataset would constitute a separate, full-fledged future study. To address the reviewer's valid concern about generalizability, we have done two things in the revised manuscript: (1) We have added a more detailed discussion on the potential limitations of our current study in the Discussion section (Page 12). (2) We have explicitly included the experiment on Dataset X as a key direction for our future work. We hope this approach reasonably addresses the reviewer's concern within the scope of the current paper."
四、 提交前的检查清单
- [ ] 回复信 (Response Letter): 是否已逐条回应所有意见?
- [ ] 修改稿(带标记版): 是否已使用Word的“修订”功能或彩色字体标出所有修改之处?
- [ ] 修改稿(干净版): 准备一份不带任何标记的最终版本。
- [ ] 新的投稿信 (Cover Letter): 撰写一封简短的信,告知编辑您已按要求完成修改并重新提交。
总结: 一份高情商的回复信,是您与学术同行进行的一次严谨而友好的对话。它不仅能展现您扎实的科研能力,更能体现您作为学者的专业素养和开放心态。认真对待它,它将是您论文通往成功发表的最坚实的桥梁。