Reviewer asked for dataset section within the manuscript Recently, a paper of mine received a major revision. Among different comments, one reviewer asked &quot;the authors to include dataset section in MS&quot;.
Now, my problem with this request is that the data is too big (monthly precipitation and temperature for 30 years from 11 stations!) to be included within the MS itself.
The data should be requested to upload as supplementary files, rather than inside the paper itself. And I know the reviewer was not accidentally misusing the word &quot;MS&quot;, since his other requests were completely precise.
So...
My question is, am I missing something? Did the reviewer mean something else? Beside the raw data itself?
These are his exact words: &quot;The authors should first tell the reader what data you have, and you will use in this manuscript. The authors include Data Set section in MS. It is also requested to inform about the source of data.&quot;
They are not asking you to copy-and-paste the data into the paper in a &quot;dataset section.&quot; They want you to devote more space to explaining what the dataset is and where you got it. Presumably, you did not collect it, so it should be easy to post to the government source.
That said, 7920 data points is tiny and could easily be included in a CSV file (but I digress). If they want you to share it, you could upload it somewhere else and link to it. But since this sounds like a publicly available government dataset, your time would be better spent making sure your preparation of the data is replicable.