Next Article in Journal
Phototropic Behavioral Responses of Zooplankton in Lake Baikal In Situ and during the Anthropogenic Impact Modeling
Previous Article in Journal
Winter and Summer Variations in the Physiological Parameters of Two Scleractinian Corals in Sanya Bay
Previous Article in Special Issue
Multi-Parameter Algorithms of Remote Sensing Reflectance, Absorption and Backscattering for Coastal Waters of the Southern Baltic Sea Applied to Pomeranian Lakes
 
 
Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
Journals
Water
Volume 15
Issue 16
10.3390/w15162958
Review Report
water-logo
Submit to this Journal Review for this Journal Propose a Special Issue
► Article Menu

Article Menu

share Share announcement Help format_quote Cite question_answer Discuss in SciProfiles
Article
Peer-Review Record

Determination of Bisphenol A (BPA) in the Port of Gdynia Waters Using Gas Chromatography Coupled with Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)

Water 2023, 15(16), 2958; https://doi.org/10.3390/w15162958
by Aleksandra Bojke *, Małgorzata Littwin, Agata Szpiech, Ewelina Duljas, Paweł Jasiński, Izabela Wittstock, Olga Jażdżewska and Katarzyna Galer-Tatarowicz
Reviewer 1:
Jawayria Najeeb
Reviewer 2:
Lei Zheng
Reviewer 3: Anonymous
Water 2023, 15(16), 2958; https://doi.org/10.3390/w15162958
Submission received: 3 July 2023 / Revised: 25 July 2023 / Accepted: 7 August 2023 / Published: 16 August 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seas under Anthropopressure)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The study is quite essential and interesting. However, following comments should be taken into account before the publication of the article in the prestigious journal of Water.

1) the GIS based map identifying the working site should be included in the manuscript.

2) The mathematical findings should be rechecked for the typographical mistake of comma in place of decimal point. For instance; in figure 7, the R2 value is written to be 0,9943. I believe that there should be a decimal point there rather than comma. The whole manuscript should be revised to address this issue.

3) The statistical tests should be implemented in order to study the actual statistically significant difference of the concentration of Bisphenol A observed in the various samples.

4) The acquired results should be properly discussed in the results and discussion section.

 

The English quality needs a bit of improvement.

Author Response

Please see the attachment.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

General comments

The article is interesting to read and well written. This paper presents the procedure for the determination of BPA in seawater. BPA in water samples were extracted by SPE method, and analyzed by GC-MS. I suggest major revision of the manuscript based on the following comments.

Detailed Corrections/comments:

(1) Line 84, ‘km2’ should be changed to ‘km2’

(2) Line 119, The figure 1 is not clear enough.

(3) Line 147, BPA is a weakly acidic substance, please provide the preservation condition of water samples.

(4) Line 184-187, why is the response value of BPA in Figure 5 inferior to that in Figure 6 at the same concentration level. I think derivatization is inefficient.

No

Author Response

Please see the attachment

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 3 Report

The manuscript is well written ,the sampling methodologies and analysis results are clear and robust.However, it would be opportune to expand introduction emphasizing the toxic effects of bisphenol a on aquatic organisms (alone and in combination with other contaminants) as widely documented (https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15127,https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics9120344)

 

 

Author Response

Please see the attachment

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The changes made by the authors in this paper are satisfactory. 

Back to TopTop