Evaluating researcher and stakeholder perspectives on socially responsible research and innovation policies and practices in marine and maritime research performing organisations

Here is a note summarising the issues raised and what has been done. The first reviewer noted issues as follows. (1) Links need to be fixed. Confirmed this is corrected. (2) "In the Materials and Methods section the subheadings should be refined/corrected - the text under the subheading 'Research Instrument Design' refers to sampling of respondents and collection of the data, while info on the instrument design appears under the previous subheading. This could be fixed by removing the two level 1 subheadings and including a new subheading on 'Data Collection'." Done.  (3) "The data Note could be improved by including information on inclusion/exclusion criteria for the sampling process." Done.  (4) "The note could also be improved by clarification of the reference to 'department or institution wide requests for information' (in the paragraph labelled 'Sampling')." Done. (5) "The Plain Language Summary refers to 'a pilot effort to implement these surveys', but there is no reference to this being a pilot in other sections of the note. It should be made clear if this was or was not a pilot study, and if so what were the aims and objectives of the pilot study." Pilot deleted from this plain language summary.  (6) "It would be useful to include some commentary on lessons learned from this initial 'baseline' survey, what refinements have been or should be made to the survey methods and tools, and the extent to which the survey design and survey implementation are considered fit-for-purpose." Done. (7) "I suggest the title of the Data Note should be refined to more closely reflect the aim/purpose of the Data Note." [also mentioned by 2^nd reviewer] Done. Reasons for selection of the RPOs for the study specified. Data presentation improved to make it more usable (2nd reviewer).