PONE-D-24-09504New versions of maps and connected spaces via supra soft sd-operatorsPLOS ONE

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Reviewer #1: This paper belongs to the field of supra soft topology. The authors discussed new types of connectedness and continuity in the spaces of supra soft topologies. They studied their main characterizations with the help of some examples. The obtained results are correct and interesting.

However, the manuscript needs some improvements. In what follows, I mention some revisions that are necessary to improve the manuscript:

1. The quality of the English language should be improved carefully to enhance readability, for example page 2, in the penultimate line of introduction section, write "In addition, we use..." instead of "In addition, we used ...". Also, page 6, write "Let (G, Δ) be both..." instead of "Let (G, Δ) is both ..."

2. Improve the way of presenting literature review, focus on the contributions on supra soft topology the frame of your topic, you should refer to the following (i) Two types of separation axioms on supra soft separation spaces; (ii) On supra soft topological ordered spaces; (iii) Further notions related to new operators and compactness via supra soft topological spaces; (iv) New types of soft ordered mappings via soft $\\alpha$-open sets.

3. Review the proof (2) ⇒ (1) of Theorem 3.7.

4. In Example 4.21, there are two braces for the set (X_4, Δ), correct this typo.

5. I suggest showing the readers how the structures of supra topology are used to address practical problems by referring to the published paper “Rough sets models inspired by supra-topology structures”

6. Improve the way of presentation, write a brief introduction for the main sections.

7. Are all classical properties of the current work still valid in the spaces of supra soft topologies.

8. the conclusion section, mention some future directions and demonstrating the importance of writing the manuscript.

Reviewer #2: After I reviewed this manuscript, I see it needs some revisions and improvements according to the following comments:

1- please, specify the main contributions of this paper.

2- merge paragraphs 3, 4, and 5 into one paragraph.

3- the phrase "(G^c, Δ) is proper supra closed soft subset" is not clear (given in page 6), the correct form is "soft closed" instead of "closed soft"

4-There are some typos in Remark 3.8

5- Link the obtained results with their counterparts in classical settings, demonstrate if there are divergences.

6- It will be good to investigate the importance of studying topological concepts in supra topologies, specify a separate paragraph in the introduction section for this point, show how generalization of topology such supra topology and infra topology will be beneficial for dealing with practical issues by referring to the following manuscripts:

a) Some applications of supra preopen sets

b) Investigation of limit points and separation axioms using supra $\\beta$-open sets

b) Connectedness and covering properties via infra topologies with application to fixed point theorem

c) Continuity and separation axioms via infra topological spaces

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Reviewer #2: No

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New versions of maps and connected spaces via supra soft sd-operators

PONE-D-24-09504R1

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