{"id":8247,"date":"2016-05-18T21:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/q_and_a\/how-should-i-respond-if-i-cannot-address-a-reviewers-suggestion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:36:20","slug":"how-should-i-respond-if-i-cannot-address-a-reviewers-suggestion","status":"publish","type":"q_and_a","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/how-should-i-respond-if-i-cannot-address-a-reviewers-suggestion","title":{"rendered":"How should I respond if I cannot address a reviewer&#8217;s comment?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2429],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-8247","q_and_a","type-q_and_a","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-responding-to-peer-reviewers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How should I respond if I cannot address a reviewer&#039;s suggestion? 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