Content of review 1, reviewed on February 09, 2024

I do consider this work suitable for publication, due to a number of prominent flaws in the work, principally:

Engagement with relevant literature and theoretical debates on student migration and mobility is too limited. Neither is there recognition of contextual factors that have had a major impact on student migrants, including the recent pandemic.

The main focus of the article, loneliness, is a highly complex issue, making the choice of quantitative methods strange. Sure a qualitative approach would have been more logical? Or perhaps different hypotheses might have been selected.

The analysis itself is unintelligible to readers not versed in statistics.

The conclusions are too obvious. For example, having a romantic partner reduces loneliness. If the data had shown the opposite, that would have made for an interesting paper. But it doesn't.

Source

    © 2024 the Reviewer.

References

    Basak, B., Isabell, D., Thomas, F. 2024. The puzzle of loneliness: A sociostructural and transnational analysis of International Chinese Students' networks in Germany. International Migration.