ATOM INDONESIA JOURNAL
Editor’s Report
Article No. : #443
Title of Paper : Temperature and Salinity Effect on Bioaccumulation, Gill Structure and Radiation Dose Estimation in the Milkfish Chanoschanos Exposed to 137Cs
Referee Name :
Comment on Descriptions 1. Title
[ ] Appropriate
[X] Should be changed (slightly due to grammatical errors)
2. Abstract
Yes[ ] No[X] Is the length reasonable?
Yes[ ] No[X] Is it an appropriate summary of the content?
3. Main Text
Yes[X] No[ ] Is there anything new in this work?
Yes[X] No[ ] Is the relation to previous studies adequately stated?
Yes[X] No[ ] Are the assumption(s) and/or method(s) described comprehensively?
Yes[ ] No[X] Are the new results adequately emphasized?
Line # Referee’s Comments
1 Effects
1 For all text involving chanos chanos, please use space for the words chanos chanos 3 … in the.. (space is required)
14 ..for several temperatures of 25oC, …
14 …. g at steady state.. (what is g for? Is it typo?) 14 …in whole-body of Chanoschanos, respectively.
209 Why did the CFss drop significantly at 35% salinity compared to that of 32% salinity?
280 What is high temperature? How high?
395- 404
Would be nice if the authors could put the CF equations on each figure, so that the readers would clearly recognize the CFss as well as k values. Each trend is then discussible.
404 Why does, unlike the other figures, figure 2(C) look more linear than exponential?
416 What are labeled as A, B, C here?
427 For table 2, please use ×10-5 instead of E-5, etc.
1-431 Please have your manuscript checked for language/grammar since there are lots of grammatical errors
Final comments and recommendations:
This study is of great interest and importance. As well, the data present here are quite large;
however the discussion regarding the effect of salinity is very limited. Thus we suggest the followings:
1. Thorough language checks should be carried out before publication of this manuscript since there are various grammatical errors which I cannot mention one by one. Also, there are lots of punctuations, typos and spaces need to be revised. Please consult with your language editor for this issue.
2. The discussion section is a bit too short; thus it needs more discussion on the effect of salinity on the bioaccumulation, gill structure and Radiation Dose Estimation.
3. Every figure in Fig.(1) and (2) are discussible in terms of their CFss and k values.
Please add more discussion on this issues
4. We found a similar paper on “Bioaccumulation and retention kinetics of Cs in Milkfish Chanos Chanos from Jakarta Bay” published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, May 2016.
We understood that the parameters observed in the paper are different from the ones in this manuscript; thus we suggest the authors to use the published paper as one of the references.
This paper is recommended to be [ ] Accepted without further revision [ ] Accepted with minor revision [X] Major Revision is required [ ] Rejected
