Peer Review Record

The manuscript is a review on integrating soil health management with sustainable vegetable crop systems. Reviewers regarded the topic as relevant and important, well positioned within sustainable agriculture and soil health, and found the conclusions broadly defensible and consistent with the cited literature. However, substantial revision was required. The central concern was the absence of an explicit review methodology (databases, search terms, time range, inclusion and exclusion criteria, number of articles reviewed) and the lack of clarity on whether the work is a narrative, scoping, or systematic review. Reviewers also found the research problem too broad and asked for a more focused research gap, with specific aims stated at the end of the Introduction and the main objective and approach reflected in the Abstract. Further requests were for deeper critical synthesis in place of largely descriptive coverage, including a comparative synthesis table of technologies by effect, cost, and scalability; more careful qualification of claims and a more cautious, evidence-aligned tone in the Conclusions; improved formatting, units, and referencing of thresholds in the tables; keywords; and professional language editing. The authors satisfactorily addressed all comments, after which the manuscript was accepted for publication.

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