为ISSI大会评审两篇论文（2002）

武夷山

其一

The choice of the theme is interesting. Maybe the author could analyze more data, such as whether the number of participates from a certain country is influenced by the distance of this country to the conference venue or by the richness level of the given country, or both.

其二

The author(s) has paid great effort to collect valuable data, present a theoretical framework and conduct empirical analysis. This hard labor should be appreciated.

Two points for consideration by the author:

1.     The Conclusion says that “ (t)he sample analysed probably represents more than 95% of the world universities.” But how could the author ensure this is a correct estimate? In some developing countries, not every university has its own website. Beijing is one of the most advanced cities in China, but even in Beijing, not every institution of higher learning owns a website. Maybe the safe expression is 95% of the universities with websites?

2.     The author should  check the grammatical correctness of the paper more carefully. In the abstract, there are some errors. In line 2 of the Introduction, “basic” should be “basis”.  In line 7, “use” should be “used”. In line 11, “others” be “other’. In line 5 of Method, “being” should be deleted. In line 1 of Result, “an related research institutes” should be “and related…”?