To Reviewer : Wendy

Reviewer 2 : Scott Wearing Comment Response

Obesity and pronated foot type may increase the risk of chronic plantar heel pain: a matched Title: case-control study

Detailed Response to Reviewer Comments Reviewer :

Frequency of data extraction errors and methods to increase data extraction quality: a methodological review

BACKGROUND Our objective was to assess the frequency of data extraction errors and its potential impact on results in systematic reviews. Furthermore, we evaluated the effect of different extraction methods, reviewer characteristics and reviewer training on error rates and results. METHODS We performed a systematic review of methodological literature in PubMed, Cochrane methodological registr...

Review History of 2009ja015069

Below and/or attached are two reviews of the above manuscript. I am pleased to report that Reviewer #1 finds the manuscript acceptable for publication but Reviewer #2 still has some strong concerns. I have some sympathy with the view expressed in your covering letter, that Reviewer #2 may have a biased attitude. However, it would be inappropriate for me to entirely ignore their comments, so I p...

The k-Allocation Problem and Its Variants

In the process of reviewing and ranking projects by a group of reviewers, each reviewer is assumed to review a partial list of projects, up to k projects. Each individual reviewer then ranks and compares all pairs of k projects. The k-allocation problem is to determine the allocation of up to k projects to each reviewer within the expertise set of the reviewer so that the resulting union of rev...