Reviewer of the Year: Professor William Heidbrink, University of California Irvine, United States
Professor of Physics at the University of California Irvine, USA, William Heidbrink studies high-energy, fast ions in magnetic fusion experiments. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and, in 2004, received the Excellence in Plasma Physics Research award from the American Physical Society.
A referee for a number of journals, Professor Heidbrink was pleasantly surprised to have been selected for Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion’s Reviewer of the Year award. As a reviewer, he lends his expertise in experimental plasma physics, seeing it as a necessary service to his research community. The reward for undertaking this service is the feeling that he has helped authors to notably improve their paper.
When reviewing a manuscript, Professor Heidbrink will check that the research is technically sound and that it contributes significantly to the field—basic journal criteria, he says. One paper he recently enjoyed reading discussed recent upgrades to the FIDA (fast-ion D-alpha) diagnostic at ASDEX Upgrade, the Axially Symmetric Divertor Experiment in Garching, Germany: Enhancement of the FIDA diagnostic at ASDEX Upgrade for velocity space tomography.
Overall, Professor Heidbrink feels that the current peer review process works well; although, he does wonder whether it would be enhanced if the reviews were not anonymous. His brief but sound advice to those who are taking on the task of refereeing for the first time is to consult a mentor.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Professor Allen Boozer, Columbia University, United States
- Dr Alex Chankin, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany
- Dr Jonathan Citrin, DIFFER – Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, Netherlands
- Professor Xiang Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences, China
- Dr Per Helander, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany
- Dr Vladimir Ivanov, University of Nevada, United States
- Dr Olivier Izacard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Wei Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Dr Stanley Kaye, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, United States
- Professor Alexander Kudrin, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
- Dr G Lesnyakov, National Science Center ‘Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology’, Ukraine
- Dr Victor Marchenko, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences – Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research, Ukraine
- Dr Ken McClements, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
- Dr Carlos Paz-Soldan, General Atomics, United States
- Dr S Pestchanyi, Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie, Germany
- Professor Antonio Roberto Piriz, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Dr Joel Rosato, Universite d’Aix – Marseille, France
- Professor Vladimir Rozhansky, St Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia
- Dr Alexander Saveliev, Russian Academy of Sciences – Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russia
- Dr Matthias Schnuerer, Max-Born-Institut fuer Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Germany
- Dr George Sips, European Commission, UK
- Dr Wolfgang Suttrop, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany
- Dr Tomonori Takizuka, Osaka University, Japan
- Dr Dezhen Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Ben Stansfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
For Dr Ben Stansfield, reviewing offers a pre-publication glimpse into the future of his field of study. Dr Stansfield finds being able to review Physiological Measurement (PM) articles focusing on physical activity measurement and the health consequences of physical activity and sedentary behaviour, both enjoyable and beneficial to his work. One paper that recently interested him used several different sources of information to investigate complex interactions between changes in physical activity and falls outcomes in older people: Disentangling the health benefits of walking from increased exposure to falls in older people using remote gait monitoring and multi-dimensional analysis.
When reviewing, Dr Stansfield looks for novelty and good storytelling. There has to be a clear purpose to the work presented, with well-defined logic and an obvious move forward in science. He urges fellow reviewers not to be hypercritical of manuscripts that are not written in the way they would write them; although it is important that the research is understandable and unambiguous.
Dr Stansfield believes the peer review process is appropriate if reviewers are both knowledgeable and willing to dedicate the time to it. Pre-publication review is essential, he says, because it provides readers with confidence in the quality of journal articles.
Prompted to become familiar with PM’s content after the journal promoted an ICAMPAM conference he had been involved in, Dr Stansfield is delighted to be acknowledged for his efforts—but he views the task as his responsibility as a researcher. He has also acted as Lead Editor on Focus Issues relating to the ICAMPAM events in the journal.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Mr Fernando Andreotti, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
- Dr Johan Arends, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Dr Sergio Caravita, Dept of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences, Ospedale San Luca IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy
- Dr Miguel Garcia-Gonzalez, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Dr Erik Gommer, Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht, Netherlands
- Dr Dieter Hayn, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
- Mr Christoph Bernhard Hoog Antink, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Dr Henry Lukaski, Univ North Dakota, United States
- Dr Dick Markhorst, VU Universiteit Medical Centre, Netherlands
- Dr Alda Marques, University of Aveiro, Portugal
- Dr Jan Meijer, VU Universiteit Medical Centre, Netherlands
- Professor Alan Murray, Newcastle University, UK
- Dr Jonathan Mynard, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia
- Professor Stefano Omboni, Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Italy
- Dr Leonid Rubchinsky, Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis, United States
- Dr Mirja Tenhunen, Tampere University Hospital, Finland
- Professor Tatsuo Togawa, Waseda University, Japan
- Mr Heikki Vaananen, Aalto University, Finland
- Professor Eung Woo, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea
Reviewer of the Year: Professor Alessandro Olivo, University College London, UK
Having been a fan of Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB)’s high quality articles for many years, Professor Alessandro Olivo is in no doubt that the journal is an invaluable tool for the research community. In spite of the increasing amount of submissions, he believes PMB’s review process is fair, considered and standardized—although more resources will need to be invested in the whole peer review system to maintain high levels of service overall.
Professor Olivo looks for novelty and scientific rigour in manuscripts, finding great reward in uncovering research that is ‘genuinely novel’. Authors generally understand that reviewers are there to help and not hamper publication, he says, which is why he gains much satisfaction from knowing he has made a difference.
Professor Olivo points to X-ray phase-contrast imaging: from pre-clinical applications towards clinics as an example of a well-balanced, exhaustive and well-written paper.
Recognizing that first-time reviewers are likely to be early-stage researchers, Professor Olivo urges them not to be intimidated by big names in the author list. He advises young scientists to focus on the quality of the paper and to write reviews that are neither too short nor too long—both of which are unhelpful to authors. Be factual, he says, and offer constructive criticism.
An experienced and long-time reviewer, Professor Olivo is pleased to have been acknowledged for the passion and care he puts into reviewing.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Kenneth Bader, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, United States
- Dr Timothy Baran, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States
- Dr James Bedford, Royal Marsden Hospital, UK
- Dr Alexandr Belousov, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Dr Michael Bindschadler, University of Washington, United States
- Dr Martin Caon, Flinders University, Australia
- Dr Elisabeth Caparelli, NIH, United States
- Dr Luca Caucci, University of Arizona, United States
- Dr Quan Chen, University of virginia, United States
- Dr Xin Lin Chen, St Jude Medical, United States
- Dr James Chow, University of Toronto OCI/PMH, Canada
- Dr Yiu-Cho Chung, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China
- Dr Olivier Couture, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, France
- Dr Peter Dendooven, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Mr Nicolas Depauw, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
- Professor Guenther Dollinger, Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen, Germany
- Dr Corina Drapaca, Pennsylvania State University, United States
- Dr David Eaton, Mount Vernon Hospital, UK
- Professor Dimitris Emfietzoglou, The University of Ioannina, Greece
- Dr Vladimir Feygelman, University of South Florida, United States
- Dr Nancy Ford, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dr Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Dr Ziad Francis, Universite Saint Joseph, Lebanon
- Dr Albin Fredriksson, RaySearch Laboratories, Sweden
- Professor Osamu Fujiwara, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
- Dr Damien Garcia, Universite de Montreal, Canada
- Dr Jean-Luc Gennisson, Institut Langevin, France
- Dr Fada Guan, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States
- Dr David Hansen, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
- Dr Sami Hissoiny, Elekta, United States
- Dr Dave Jette, Private address, United States
- Dr Andrew Jirasek, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Professor Bleddyn Jones, University of Oxford, UK
- Dr Nobuyuki Kanematsu, National Institute of Radiological Sciences Hospital, Japan
- Dr Tobias Knopp, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- Dr Christoph Kolbitsch, King’s College London – University of London, UK
- Dr Richard Kramer, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
- Dr Antonio Lallena, Universidad de Granada, Spain
- Dr Thomas Langerak, AMC, Netherlands
- Dr Yuan Le, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, United States
- Dr Martin Lepage, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
- Dr Feng Liu, University of Queensland, Australia
- Dr Patrick Liu, PerkinElmer Inc., United States
- Professor Mauro Magnani, Universita degli studi di Urbino, Italy
- Mr Matteo Maspero, Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, Netherlands
- Dr Stewart Midgley, Monash University, Australia
- Professor Robert Miyaoka, University of Washington, United States
- Professor Christopher Moore, Christie NHS Foundation Trust, UK
- Professor Marek Moszynski, Narodowe Centrum Badan Jadrowych, Poland
- Professor Xuanqin Mou, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
- Dr Tufve Nyholm, Umea University, Sweden
- Dr Jialin Peng, Huaqiao University, China
- Dr Jerimy Polf, University of Maryland, United States
- Dr P Hendrik Pretorius, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Dr Didier Rajon, University of Florida, United States
- Dr Nick Reynaert, Universiteit Gent, France
- Professor Dr Mark J Rivard, Tufts University School of Medicine, United States
- Dr Bradley Roth, Oakland University, United States
- Dr Tamerlan Saidov, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Professor Dr Otto Sauer, Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Germany
- Dr Felix Scholkmann, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
- Dr Georg Stamm, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany
- Mr Bjorn Stemkens, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
- Dr Brad Sutton, University of Illinois, United States
- Dr Likun Tan, Dartmouth College, United States
- Dr Simon Thomas, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, UK
- Professor Christopher Thompson, McGill University, Canada
- Dr Jeroen Verhaeghe, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
- Dr Steve Weston, Leeds Cancer Centre, UK
- Dr Albrecht Wieser, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
- Dr Marcus Wilson, University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Dr Scott Wollenweber, GE Healthcare, United States
- Dr Guang Yang, Imperial College London, UK
- Dr Ziv Yaniv, National Institutes of Health, United States
- Dr Slav Yartsev, London Health Sciences Center, Canada
- Dr Shunsuke Yonai, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan
- Dr Helio Yoriyaz, Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares (IPEN), Brazil
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Martin Falcke, Max-Delbruck-Center, Germany
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Aidan Brown, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Professor Qiang Cui, University of Wisconsin at Madison, United States
- Dr Matt Ferguson, Boise State University, United States
- Dr Jasmine Foo, University of Minnesota, United States
- Dr Jan Huizinga, McMaster University, Canada
- Dr William Mather, Virginia Tech, United States
- Dr Kei Moritsugu, RIKEN Wako Institute, Japan
- Professor Christian Pous, Universite Paris-Sud, France
- Dr Matthew Simpson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Dr Abhinav Tiwari, Pfizer, United States
- Dr Filipe Tostevin, Technische Universität München, Germany
- Dr Lu Wen, Peking University, China
Reviewer of the Year: Professor Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University, Canada
With its balanced mix of rigorous mathematics and ‘interesting’ physics, Nonlinearity is one of Professor Dmitry Pelinovsky’s favourite journals—and the most rewarding part of refereeing for this journal is having the opportunity to be exposed to subjects that closely correlate to his past and present research projects.
Based at McMaster University in Canada, Professor Pelinovsky is also Associate Editor of Studies in Applied Mathematics (Wiley) and an editorial board member of Physical Review A (American Institute of Physics). He believes that to improve the peer review process overall, editors should ask for reviews from two or three researchers for each manuscript before deciding whether to accept or reject it. This because a decision based on one report tends to be subjective.
One paper that recently resonated with Professor Pelinovsky was Solitons in quadratic media. He believes that ‘good papers’ achieve a balance between relevant scientific problems and correct mathematical problems. Professor Pelinovsky has stringent reviewing standards; if the manuscript is either misleading or scientifically uninspiring, he will reject it. Likewise, papers that present interesting physics but have incorrect mathematical justifications—or rigorous arguments on a subject that has already been exhausted by others—will not be received positively.
He urges young mathematicians embarking on a review for the first time to have the confidence to point out arguments they suspect may be invalid or wrong. It is also important that they broaden their research horizons by keeping up to date with different research groups working on similar problems.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Thomas Carr, Southern Methodist University, United States
- Dr Tomasz Cieslak, Polish Academy of Sciences – Institute of Mathematics, Poland
- Dr Gerhard Dangelmayr, Colorado State University, United States
- Dr Francesco de Anna, Universite de Bordeaux, France
- Professor Charles Doering, University of Michigan, United States
- Professor Alexandre Dutrifoy, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Dr Reinhard Farwig, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
- Professor Lucas C F Ferreira, State University of Campinas, Brazil
- Dr Giovany Figueiredo, UFPA, Brazil
- Dr Stefano Galatolo, Universita di Pisa, Italy
- Dr Ryan Goh, Boston University, United States
- Dr Xiaoying Han, Auburn University, United States
- Dr Yulij Ilyashenko, Russian Academy of Sciences – Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia
- Dr Alexei Ilyin, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
- Professor Peter Kloeden, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitat, Germany
- Dr Carlo Laing, Massey University, New Zealand
- Mr Johannes Lankeit, Universität Paderborn, Germany
- Professor James Meiss, University of Colorado, United States
- Dr Vicenc Mendez, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Professor Eugen Mihailescu, Romanian Academy, Romania
- Dr Vahagn Nersesyan, University of Versailles, France
- Dr Takashi Nishikawa, Northwestern University, United States
- Dr Yuan Pei, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
- Dr Stephen Schecter, North Carolina State University, United States
- Dr G Seregin, University of Oxford, UK
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Anthony Leverrier, INRIA Rocquencourture des Telecommunications, France
Dr Anthony Leverrier enjoys the feeling that he is contributing to a collective scientific adventure by ensuring that a paper’s published results are correct and can be reproduced. He sees peer review as an integral part of the researcher’s job. With the increase in new journals and published articles, however, he is also aware that it is impossible to accept all solicitations for reviews.
For this reason, Dr Leverrier endeavours to referee for journals that are open-access and publish ‘good science’, such as New Journal of Physics (NJP). It also makes sense to him to focus solely on papers that interest him, to not only manage the influx of solicitations, but also to lend his expertise to the subject matter.
It seems to Dr Leverrier that authors tend to oversell results, which skews the peer review process; whereas, in NJP, he finds authors are usually much more honest about their results and the refereeing process can focus on its primary role: checking the correctness of the results.
For Dr Leverrier, a good review offers constructive criticism, clearly pointing how the manuscript might be improved, rather than focusing on aspects the reviewer would have treated differently. He urges first-time reviewers to imagine being on the receiving end of the report to avoid being too negative or aggressive in their comments.
Dr Leverrier is pleased to see a list of outstanding referees being published for NJP. He is happy and surprised to have been singled out for the Reviewer of the Year award, modestly suggesting he had not done a much better job than any of his colleagues.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Professor Daniel Alonso, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
- Dr Andre Barato, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
- Dr Stephen Barnett, University of Glasgow, UK
- Dr Peter Baum, LMU München, Germany
- Mr Ämin Baumeler, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
- Dr Alejandro Bermudez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Dr Sergio Boixo, Google, UK
- Dr Cyril Branciard, Institut Néel, France
- Dr Ceri Brenner, Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK
- Dr Daniel Browne, University College London, UK
- Dr Daniel Buergler, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
- Professor Thomas Busch, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
- Dr Enrico Camporeale, entrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
- Dr Eric Cavalcanti, University of Sydney, Australia
- Dr Gabriele De Chiara, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
- Dr Arend Dijkstra, Kyoto University, Japan
- Dr Tobias Donner, Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule – Zurich, Switzerland
- Dr Clive Emary, Newcastle University, UK
- Dr Bill Fefferman, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
- Dr Simone Felicetti, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain
- Dr Shiping Feng, Beijing Normal University, China
- Dr Giovanni Finocchio, University of Messina, Italy
- Dr Florian Froewis, University Geneva, Switzerland
- Mrs Ken Funo, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Dr S Gardiner, Durham University, UK
- Dr Enno Giese, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Dr Zhe-Xuan Gong, JQI, United States
- Dr Frederic Grosshans, CNRS, France
- Professor Dr David Guery-Odelin, Université Paul Sabatier, France
- Dr Mohammad Hafezi, The Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), United States
- Dr Matt Harrington, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
- Professor N Harshman, The American University, United States
- Dr Michael Hartmann, Heriot-Watt University, UK
- Dr Sebastian Hofferberth, 5. Phys. Institut, Germany
- Dr Marcus Huber, Universitaet Wien, Austria
- Dr Toshikaze Kariyado, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Dr Yaroslav Kartashov, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (ICFO), Spain
- Dr Alexander Kemper, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Viv Kendon, Durham University, UK
- Professor Ulrich Kleinekathoefer, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
- Dr Vadym Kliuchnikov, Microsoft Research, United States
- Dr A Femius Koenderink, FOM Institute AMOLF, Netherlands
- Professor Juergen Koenig, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Professor Andrey Kolovsky, Kirensky Institute of Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Professor Kazuhiko Kuroki, Osaka University, Japan
- Dr Neill Lambert, RIKEN, UK
- Dr J LeBlanc, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
- Professor Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Dr Dong Li, East China Normal University, China
- Professor Zhi-Min Liao, Peking University, China
- Professor Zhengyou Liu, Wuhan University, China
- Dr Mary Lyon, Joint Quantum Institute, United States
- Dr Andrea Macchi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Italy
- Professor Boris Malomed, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Dr Paul Manneville, Ecole Polytechnique, France
- Dr Pietro Massignan, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (ICFO), Spain
- Dr Neil Mathur, University of Cambridge, UK
- Dr Steven May, Drexel University, United States
- Dr Roy McAdams, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
- Dr Dara McCutcheon, University of Bristol, UK
- Dr Jun Mei, South China University of Technology, China
- Dr A S Mel’nikov, Russian Acad Sci, Russia
- Dr Florian Mintert, Imperial College London, UK
- Dr Carsten Mueller, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany
- Dr William Munro, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
- Mr Varun Narasimhachar, University of Calgary, Canada
- Dr Thierry Passot, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, France
- Professor Warren Pickett, University of California – Davis, United States
- Professor Rudolf Podgornik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Germany
- Dr Igor Pogorelsky, BNL, United States
- Dr Jean-Philippe Poizat, Institut NEEL, France
- Professor Dr Dario Poletti, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
- Dr Han Pu, Rice University, United States
- Dr Peter Rabl, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
- Dr Christian Ratsch, University of California – Los Angeles, United States
- Professor Michael Raymer, University of Oregon, United States
- Dr Caterina Riconda, LULI/UPMC, France
- Dr Achim Rosch, Universitat zu Koeln, Germany
- Dr Carlos Sabin, University of Nottingham, UK
- Dr Gianluca Sarri, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
- Dr Emanuel Schneck, Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
- Professor Armin Scrinzi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Professor Lu Sham, University of California – San Diego, United States
- Mr Chao Shen, Yale University, United States
- Professor Takasada Shibauchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Dr Eric Shirley, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
- Dr John Simpson-Porco, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Dr Douglas Singleton, California State University, United States
- Mr Ilya Starshinov, Exeter University, UK
- Dr Martin Stier, Universtät Hamburg, Germany
- Professor Attila Szolnoki, Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
- Dr Malte Tichy, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Dr Marco Tomamichel, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Dr David Vitali, Universita di Camerino, Italy
- Dr Zhenyu Wang, Universitat Ulm, Germany
- Dr Thomas Wellens, Physikalisches Institut, Germany
- Dr Haidan Wen, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Frank Wilhelm, Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany
- Professor Sandro Wimberger, Heidelberg University, Germany
- Dr Christian Wimmer, Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Germany
- Professor Howard Wiseman, Griffith University, Australia
- Dr Andre Xuereb, University of Malta, Malta
- Professor Wei Yi, University of Science and Technology of China, China
- Dr Francesco Zerbetto, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
- Dr Peng Zhang, Michigan State University, United States
- Dr Fan Zhang, University of Texas, Dallas, United States
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Adriano Cola, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
‘Nanotechnology’ is one of Dr Adriano Cola’s keywords, which is why he finds the subject matter included in Nanotechnology particularly relevant. The journal’s papers span different disciplines, with modelling and basic mechanisms as the core theme, and Dr Cola appreciates the wide-ranging perspectives that pool together towards further understanding in the field.
Dr Cola is specifically interested in carrier transport and the advanced techniques that enable investigators to probe this subject further. Hence, he cites “A review of the electrical properties of semiconductor nanowires: insights gained from terahertz conductivity spectroscopy as an enjoyable read from another IOP Publishing journal he also reviews for.
Viewing peer review as essential groundwork for research, Dr Cola looks for a message in the manuscripts he referees. He then searches for novelty, impact and vision, keeping the journal’s scope and quality standards in mind. The best papers, he says, tell a story and recount something about the authors.
Dr Cola advises first-time reviewers to approach papers with an open mind. An article’s limitations may in fact mirror the reviewer’s own research limitations, so it is important not to judge too hastily and to take your time.
Delighted with the Reviewer of the Year award, Dr Cola believes referees should be rewarded, and scored against each other according to the number of citations the reviewed paper receives in order to further motivate them. With his wife working as an associate editor for a scientific journal, it is all too clear to Dr Cola that the global reviewer database needs to be improved.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Rebecca Agapov, Oak Ridge National Lab, United States
- Dr Brahim Aissa, MPB Technologies Inc., Canada
- Dr Cristiano Albonetti, CNR, Italy
- Mr Nicklas Anttu, Lund University, Sweden
- Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Dr Nima Arjmandi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
- Dr Rob Armitage, Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, United States
- Professor Dr Andres Arnau, UPV/EHU, Spain
- Dr Manuel Arruebo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
- Dr Mohamed Asbahi, Institute of Materials and Research for Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore
- Dr Ferydon Babaei, Qom University, Iran
- Professor Julien Bachmann, Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen, Germany
- Dr Grégory Barbillon, Universite Paris-Sud, France
- Professor Salvador Barraza-Lopez, University of Arkansas, United States
- Professor Mehmet Baykara, Bilkent University, Turkey
- Dr Mikhael Bechelany, Eidgenossische Materialprufungs und Forschungsanstalt, Switzerland
- Dr Paolo Bertoncello, Swansea University, UK
- Dr Gunther Brunklaus, Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat Munster, Germany
- Professor Enrique Calleja, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
- Professor Eva Campo, Bangor University, UK
- Mr Jesus Carrete, CEA-Grenoble, France
- Dr Federico Cesano, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
- Mrs Stefanos Chaitoglou, University of Barcelona, Spain
- Dr Sheng Hsiung Chang, National Central University, Taiwan
- Ms Fanglin Che, Washington State University, United States
- Professor Lung-Chien Chen, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
- Dr Hao Chen, Princeton University, United States
- Dr Hao Chen, Princeton University, United States
- Mr Ta Chou, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
- Professor Daxiang Cui, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Dr Bruno Daudin, CEA Grenoble, France
- Dr Luca De Stefano, CNR – Istituto per la Microelettronica I Microsistemi, Italy
- Dr Ruopeng Deng, Lam Research, United States
- Professor Antonio Di Bartolomeo, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
- Professor Bin Ding, Donghua University, China
- Dr Bin Ding, DongHua University, China
- Dr Hong Ding, Florida International University, United States
- Dr Mircea Dragoman, National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnology, Romania
- Mr Yuchen Du, Purdue University, United States
- Dr Juan Escrig, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Professor Dr Guojia Fang, Wuhan University, China
- Dr Haiyu Fang, UC Santa Barbara, United States
- Professor Dr Mounir Gaidi, Research and technology center of energy, Tunisia
- Dr Patrice Gonon, Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble I, France
- Mr Johannes Gooth, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Dr Bharath Govindan, Bharathiar University, India
- Professor Tom Gregorkiewicz, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Dr Peijun Guo, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
- Professor Dr Zheng Han, Institute of Metal Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Professor Chuanglong He, Donghua University, China
- Dr Xiaoyong He, Shanghai Normal University, China
- Dr Weidong He, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Daniel Hiller, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
- Professor Dr Xianluo Hu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Professor Xuedong Hu, University at Buffalo – SUNY, United States
- Dr Youfan Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
- Professor Zongliang Huo, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing, China
- Dr Yu Ivanov, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- Dr Alar Janes, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Professor Guangbin Ji, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
- Mr Peipei Jia, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Ms Beibei Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
- Professor William Jo, Ewha Woman’s University, Republic of Korea
- Professor Sanghyun Ju, Kyonggi University, Republic of Korea
- Professor Tohru Kawamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Professor Hak Kim, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
- Professor Taek-Soo Kim, KAIST, Republic of Korea
- Professor Marina Koroleva, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Russia
- Mr Sowri Babu Kotikala, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India
- Dr Lia Kouchachvili, Canmet Energy Technology Centre, Canada
- Professor Yafei Kuang, Hunan University, China
- Dr Pushpendra Kumar, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- Dr Polina Kuzhir, Belarusian State University, Belarus
- Dr Gi Duk Kwon, Sungkyunkwan University – Suwon Campus, Republic of Korea
- Dr Wenzhang Li, Cent S Univ, China
- Professor Jingbo Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing, China
- Dr Tao Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Electrical Engineering, China
- Dr Xinming Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Dr Fengji Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Dr Zhefei Li, Ohio University, United States
- Dr Shuyou Li, FOM Networks, Inc., United States
- Dr Ruowen Liang, Fuzhou University, China
- Dr Feng Liang, National Key Laboratory for Clean Application of Complex Non-ferrous Metal Resources, China
- Professor Yow-Jon Lin, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
- Professor Jingquan Liu, Qingdao University, China
- Professor Xuguang Liu, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
- Dr Wei Liu, National University of Defense Technology, China
- Professor Yan Jun Liu, South University of Science and Technology, China
- Professor Dr Zheng-qi Liu, Jiangxi Normal University, China
- Professor Zhuang Liu, Soochow University, Taiwan
- Mr Siyang Liu, University of Texas at Austin, United States
- Professor Xingming Long, Chongqing Normal University, China
- Dr Ganesh Lonkar, School of Physical Science, NMU, Jalgaon, India
- Dr Matteo Lorenzoni, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
- Professor Nan Lu, Jilin University, China
- Professor Ping Lu, Long Island University, United States
- Professor Linbao Luo, Hefei University of Technology, China
- Dr Xi Luo, Lehigh University, United States
- Dr Lin Ma, Lingnan Normal University, China
- Dr Siddheswar Maikap, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
- Dr Venkata Manthina, University of Connecticut, United States
- Mrs Oren Meiron, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- Dr Fanli Meng, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Professor Guowen Meng, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Solid State Physics, China
- Dr Xianwei Meng, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Dr Valentina Mussi, CNR, Italy
- Dr Mohammad Najmzadeh, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Professor Douglas Natelson, Rice University, United States
- Dr Hynek Nemec, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
- Dr Niklas Nilius, Universityof Oldenburg, Germany
- Professor Alexander Obraztsov, M V Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Dr Suparna Pal, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, India
- Mr Jinbo Pang, IFW Dresden, Germany
- Dr Patrick Parkinson, The University of Manchester, UK
- Miss Mariana Proenca, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- Dr Jian Qian, University of Kansas, United States
- Professor Nathaniel Quitoriano, McGill University, Canada
- Professor Dr Arturo Ramirez-Porras, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
- Professor Dan Rittschof, Duke University, United States
- Professor Chandra Sekhar Rout, Indian Institute of Technology – Bhubaneswar, India
- Dr Anushree Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, India
- Professor Dr Seung Yoon Ryu, Korea University, Republic of Korea
- Dr Aditya Sadhanala, University of Cambridge, UK
- Dr Shanlin Shan, The University of Alabama, United States
- Professor Mingwang Shao, Soochow University, China
- Dr Piyush Solanki, Saurashtra University, India
- Professor Michael Strano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Professor Xuping Sun, China West Normal University, China
- Dr Zhimim Tao, Private Address – United States, United States
- Dr Konstantinos Termentzidis, University of Lorraine, France
- Dr Randall Toy, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
- Dr Jiang- Tu, Zhejiang University, China
- Professor Herbert Urbassek, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Professor Dr Laudemir Varanda, Chemistry Institute of Sao Carlos, Brazil
- Dr Zhiguang Wang, Virginia Tech, United States
- Professor Hao Wang, Hubei University, China
- Dr Xin Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
- Professor Xiaodong Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Semiconductors, China
- Dr Dong Wang, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany
- Professor Xuebin Wang, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Dr Fan Wang, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea
- Dr Chih-Chieh Wang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
- Dr Geoffrey Wang, University of Georgia, United States
- Professor Han Wang, University of Southern California, United States
- Dr Luda Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Dr Mengye Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
- Dr Xin Wang, Northwestern University, United States
- Dr Wei-Ning Wang, Washington University in St Louis, United States
- Professor Xiaomu Wang, Yale Universiy, United States
- Professor Frank Watt, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Dr Liangming Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Dr Qingshan Wei, University of California – Los Angeles, United States
- Dr Xiaoming Wen, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Dr Zhong-Shuai Wu, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chile
- Dr Hung-Chun Wu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
- Professor Dr Wenzhuo Wu, Purdue University, United States
- Dr Qiangfei Xia, University of Massachusetts, United States
- Dr Yu Xia, Polyera Corporation, United States
- Dr Guohua Xie, Wuhan University, China
- Dr Chao Xie, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Dr Xiangfan Xu, Tongji University, China
- Professor Weibing Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
- Mr Fan Xu, University of Delaware, United States
- Professor Xinyu Xue, Northeastern University, China
- Professor G Yang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
- Dr Xiang Yang, University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Professor Eui-Hyeok Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
- Dr Binxing Yu, Rutgers University, United States
- Dr Yifei Yu, North Carolina State University, United States
- Dr Olena Yurchenko, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg Mathematisches Institut, Germany
- Professor Anatoly Zayats, King’s College London – University of London, UK
- Professor Qingfeng Zhan, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Dr Zhenglong Zhang, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
- Dr Zhonghai Zhang, Toyama University, Japan
- Ms Miao Zhang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Dr Fan Zhang, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
- Professor Yonggang Zheng, Dalian University of Technology, China
- Dr Bo Zhou, City University of Hong Kong and South China University of Technology, Hong Kong
- Dr Jian Zhu, Northwestern University, United States
- Professor Dechun Zou, Peking University, China
- Mr Xingquan Zou, University of Michigan, United States
Reviewer of the Year: Professor Jian Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Professor Murray Daw, Clemson University, United States
- Dr Benoit Devincre, CNRS-ONERA, France
- Professor Stephen Foiles, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
- Dr Mostafa Jamshidian, Isfahan University of Technology, Israel
- Professor Qunyang Li, Tsinghua University, China
- Dr Xiaoyan Li, Tsinghua University, China
- Dr Ronald Miller, Carleton University, Canada
- Professor Timothy Rupert, University of California, Irvine, United States
- Mr Sepehr Saroukhani, Cornell University, United States
- Dr Alexander Stukowski, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
- Dr Yujie Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Mechanics, China
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Cássia A Marquezin, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
A researcher based at the Institute of Physics at Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dr Cássia A Marquezin’s field of expertise is closely related to topics covered by Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, the journal for which she reviews. This is important because she strongly believes that referees should have a working knowledge of the subject matter covered in the paper they are reviewing.
In general, Dr Marquezin feels that the peer review process works well. However, she believes editors should place more care on selecting referees that are working in the same field as the journal’s content. In the same vein, first-time reviewers should only agree to evaluate a paper if it correlates to their area of research.
When reviewing, Dr Marquezin pays particular attention to the methods employed by the authors to arrive at their data analysis, and she advises those who are conducting their first review to do the same. She gains much satisfaction when papers are published after the authors have implemented her suggestions, especially if these suggestions recommend that authors include additional experiments.
Dr Marquezin is of the opinion that peer review affords her an excellent opportunity to be at the forefront of the latest developments in her field, and she cites two recent papers that particularly resonated with her: Spatiotemporal mapping of diffusion dynamics and organization in plasma membranes and “Fluorescent probes sensitive to changes in the cholesterol-to-phospholipids molar ratio in human platelet membranes during atherosclerosis.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Andrey Klymchenko, Universite de Strasbourg, France
- Dr Jinjun Liu, University of Louisville, United States
- Dr Olaf Rolinski, Strathclyde University, UK
