The phrase "authors respond that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a statement or viewpoint expressed by authors in a text or research paper.
Example: "In their study, the authors respond that the findings indicate a significant correlation between the variables."
Alternatives: "the authors state that" or "the authors assert that".
Only one of the authors responded that a random number table for sequence generation was used without allocation concealment, none of the participants withdrew during the trial, and no fund supported the trial [ 23].
After a reminder we received responses for 41 papers; 29 returned the survey; for 12 papers the authors responded that they did not have the intention to improve a specific hospital process, the data only served to illustrate the potential of the model.
Journal editors need to have better mechanisms to ensure that comments by peer reviewers are appropriate 20 and that authors respond appropriately.
The authors respond to this comment by saying that different micro-RNAs may regulate many different functions, which is probably true, but it does not help to understand their data and proposed mechanisms if they are not substantiated by their functional experiments in vivo.
In addition there were two instances where the peer reviewers had requested that the authors change the primary outcome (n=1) or add additional analyses (n=1), and the authors responded to say that was not the purpose of their study.
20 This small study (12 of 14 first authors responded) found that 64% of 84 authors and coauthors reportedly satisfied authorship criteria.
All authors responded, but indicated that additional information was unavailable.
About half of the authors responded, and after excluding replies that his programs could not decipher, Calcagno had a data set covering the prepublication history of 80,748 biological science papers.
The author responded at the time by saying that despite his opposition to illegal settlements, he was in favour of "dialogue, engagement, and looking for ways in which literature … can reach across political divides".
