Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter: 2016 Reviewer Awards
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Daniel Errandonea, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Considering peer review a vital element of scientific professionalism, Dr Daniel Errandonea feels it his duty to contribute his time to refereeing and sees it as a means of maintaining high standards across journals such as Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. In his opinion, peer review not only improves the quality of ‘good science’ but stops ‘bad science’ from being published.
Dr Errandonea gains much satisfaction from knowing that his scientific expertise is valued, and is pleased to have his efforts recognized by the Reviewer of the Year award. He takes the view that he is also an author, and understands that peer review is not a perfect process. He is wary of the possibility that original, pertinent research can be unnecessarily blocked or delayed, and advocates removing authors’ names from manuscripts in the interests of impartiality.
His advice to first-time reviewers is to ask for guidance from more experienced scientists and to follow journal guidelines—and not to take too long to respond.
When refereeing, Dr Errandonea looks for originality, high quality and reliable data, and rigorous science. He also considers the importance of the questions addressed and evaluates the implications of the conclusions. An article on iron oxides at high pressures—Computational searches for iron oxides at high pressures—springs to his mind, due to the authors’ interesting theoretical predictions.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Joel Ager, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Andres Aguado, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
- Professor Vladimir Ajaev, Southern Methodist University, United States
- Dr Remi Arras, CEMES, France
- Dr Elias Assmann, Technische Universitat Graz, Austria
- Dr Remi Avriller, Universite de Bordeaux I, France
- Professor Petre Badica, Institutul National de Cercetare – Desvoltare pentru Fizica Materialelor, Romania
- Dr Yaroslaw Bazaliy, University of South Carolina – Columbia, United States
- Professor Bogdan Bulka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Dr Giovanni Cantele, CNR, Italy
- Professor Robert Cava, Princeton University, United States
- Dr Wei Chen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Dr Yaomin Dai, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Pierre Dalmas de Reotier, SPSMS, France
- Dr Fabrizio Dolcini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Professor Shuai Dong, Southeast University, China
- Dr Manuel dos Santos Dias, Forschungszentrum Julich Peter Grunberg Institut, Germany
- Dr Charles Downing, Universite de Strasbourg, France
- Dr James Drewitt, University of Bristol, UK
- Dr Chunhui Du, Harvard University, United States
- Professor Morten Eskildsen, University of Notre Dame, United States
- Dr Lucia Galisova, Technical University, Slovakia
- Dr S Gallego, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
- Dr D Giuliano, Universita della Calabria, Italy
- Dr Moshe Goldstein, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Dr Igor Golosovsky, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC “Kurchatov institute”, Russia
- Dr Quanmin Guo, University of Birmingham, UK
- Dr Joel Helton, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
- Professor Dr Joachim Hemberger, Universitat zu Koeln, Germany
- Professor Shinya Hosokawa, Kumamoto University, Japan
- Professor Qing-Miao Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Metal Research, China
- Professor Zi-Xiang Hu, ChongQing University, China
- Dr Chen Huang, Florida State University, United States
- Dr Ethirajulu Kannan, Birla Institute of Technology and Science – Goa Campus, India
- Dr Pranchanan Khuntia, University of Paris-Sud 11, France
- Mr Joon-Seok Kim, University of Texas at Austin, United States
- Professor Tsuyoshi Kimura, Osaka University, Japan
- Dr Tomasz Kostyrko, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
- Professor Peter Kratzer, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Dr Tom Lancaster, Durham University, UK
- Dr Jing Li, Penn State Univeristy, United States
- Dr Xiao Li, University of Texas at Austin, United States
- Dr Zi Li, California State University Northridge, United States
- Dr Jianmin Li, Zhejiang University, China
- Professor Yang Li, Universidad de Puerto Rico – Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
- Dr Yong Liu, Ames Laboratory, United States
- Dr Zhe Luo, Purdue University System, United States
- Mr Eric Yue Ma, Stanford University, United States
- Dr Roland Mathieu, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Professor Yoshiaki Nakamura, Osaka University, Japan
- Dr T Odagaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
- Dr Lin Peng, Shanghai University of Electrical Power, China
- Professor Julian Poulter, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
- Professor Vlad Pribiag, University of Minnesota, United States
- Dr Matt Probert, University of York, UK
- Professor Dr Rui Qiao, Virginia Tech, United States
- Dr Richard Qiu, The Ohio State University, United States
- Professor Luciano Reatto, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Dr Clemens Ritter, Institut Laue-Langevin, France
- Dr Kostas Sarakinos, Linkoping University, Sweden
- Dr David Scanlon, University College London, UK
- Dr Matthias Schmidt, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- Professor Walter Selke, Rheinisch – Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
- Dr Igor Solovyev, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Dr Cheng Song, Tsinghua University, China
- Professor Yan Song, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
- Dr Pawel Strak, Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Dr Gloria Subias, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
- Dr Mengtao Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
- Dr Y Takagaki, Paul-Drude-Institut fuer Festkoerperelektronik, Germany
- Dr Keisuke Takahashi, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Dr Naoyuki Tateiwa, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
- Dr Trevor Tyson, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States
- Professor Shin-ichi Uchida, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Mr Bernard van Heck, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
- Dr Taras Verkholyak, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences – Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Ukraine
- Dr Andrew Walter, Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Haijing Wang, Chevron Energy Technology Company, USA
- Dr Yun-Peng Wang, University of Florida, United States
- Dr Qun Wei, Arizona State University, United States
- Dr D Wolverson, University of Bath, UK
- Professor Toshishige Yamada, Santa Clara University, United States
- Dr Li-Chang Yin, Tohoku University, Japan
- Dr Kai Zhang, Yale University, United States
- Professor Xiaoguang Zhang, University of Florida, United States
- Professor Han Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Dr Taishan Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Dr Zhen Zhu, Michigan State University, United States
- Dr Rok Zitko, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Dr Elena Zvereva, M V Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia