Reviewer of the Year: Dr G Sai Saravanan, Gallium Arsenide Enabling Technology Centre, India
Considering Semiconductor Science and Technology to be one of the most respected and leading journals in the area of semiconductor research, Dr G Sai Saravanan feels privileged to be associated with the publication.
The articles published within Semiconductor Science and Technology are of high quality, relevant and cover a wide range of topics, says Dr Saravanan. For example, he found the Special Section on Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials 2015 particularly informative and enjoyable.
Dr Saravanan feels honoured to have been named Reviewer of the Year. He finds it rewarding to be party to thoroughly edited manuscripts, and to have access to feedback from the Editorial Board as well as other reviewers’ comments. He views the peer review process as an excellent opportunity to benefit from the experience of others.
In the manuscripts he reviews, Dr Saravanan looks for relevant and meaningful discussions, and wants to see clear and concise presentations of the research. He therefore advises first-time reviewers to insist on clarity of expression and appropriate correlations—and to ensure that the discussion is relevant to the subject matter.
Dr Saravanan looks forward to making further contributions to Semiconductor Science and Technology in the form of reviews.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Feng Bi, University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Dr Sheng Hsiung Chang, National Central University, Taiwan
- Dr Daniel Chrastina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Professor Veer Dhaka, Aalto University, Finland
- Professor David Dunstan, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Dr Runchen Fang, Arizona State University, United States
- Dr Simone Gerardin, Universita degli studi di Padova Scuola di Scienze, Italy
- Professor Tomas Gonzalez, University of Salamanca, Spain
- Dr Edmundo Gutierrez-D, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica, Mexico
- Dr Hongyu He, South China University of Technology, China
- Professor Ivo Hummelgen, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil
- Dr Anelia Kakanakova, Linköping University, Sweden
- Dr Karol Kalna, Swansea University, UK
- Professor Seiya Kasai, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Dr Asal Kiazadeh, FCT-UNL/CENIMAT-I3N, Portugal
- Dr Hagen Klauk, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany
- Professor Kazuhiro Kudo, Chiba University, Japan
- Dr Rui Li, Qualcomm, United States
- Dr Youxi Lin, Stony Brook University, United States
- Dr Leszek Majewski, University of Manchester, UK
- Dr Fanyu Meng, Sumika Electronic Materials, United States
- Dr Sakib Muhtadi, University of South Carolina, United States
- Dr Carsten Netzel, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut fuer Hoechstfrequenztechnik Berlin (FBH), Germany
- Dr Christopher Oxley, De Montfort University, UK
- Dr Robert Richards, University of Sheffield, UK
- Dr Jean-Baptiste Rodriguez, University of Montpellier 2, France
- Dr Ajay Kumar Sattu, Infineon Technologies, United States
- Dr N Shmidt, Russian Academy of Sciences – Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russia
- Dr Hans Wenzel, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V, Germany
- Dr Hang Zhang, California Institute of Technology, China
- Dr G Zoppi, Northumbria University, UK
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Joe Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
According to Dr Joe Thompson, peer review serves an essential purpose and must remain an integral part of the scientific endeavour. Its continued success, however, rests on the availability of a sufficiently broad, responsive and informed pool of referees upon which journals can call.
Serving as a referee is a professional obligation that should not be taken lightly, says Dr Thompson. He recognizes that it can be frustrating and time-consuming, but on the whole he sees the process as very rewarding. Reviewers have an opportunity to be exposed to the most recent developments, approaches to problems and concepts, and to remain aware of trends in their field. More importantly, peer review gives robust credibility to the scientific enterprise.
Reports on Progress in Physics attracts high-quality manuscripts that Dr Thompson finds enjoyable to review. He particularly liked a recent focused issue on strongly correlated electron systems. One especially ‘aspirational’ article that resonated with him was by Mike Norman on the subject of materials by design: Materials design for new superconductors. Describing it as an atypical scientific paper, Dr Thompson appreciated the fact that it was not bogged in superfluous detail.
Dr Thompson urges first-time reviewers not to approach the task with bias. Open-mindedness and considerate rigour, he says, are key to a review that benefits the manuscript’s authors and the health of the scientific enterprise as a whole.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Professor Andrey Chubukov, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States
- Dr Robert Endres, Imperial College London, UK
- Dr Gautam Menon, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
- Professor Peter Riseborough, Temple University, United States
- Dr Werner Rodejohann, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Germany
- Professor Manfred Sigrist, Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule – Zurich, Switzerland
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Dmitry Monin, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada
An instrumentation astronomer, Dr Dmitry Monin finds Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific informative and pertinent. The journal publishes high quality papers on subjects ranging from pure astronomy to instrumentation, the latter being of particular interest to Dr Monin. He is full of praise for the journal’s Editorial Board, which is doing an ‘incredible job’, he says.
Dr Monin is modest about the ‘small contribution’ he makes to the journal, stating that he finds it rewarding to be working alongside highly knowledgeable referees. He does not consider himself to be an experienced reviewer and is delighted to have been awarded the 2016 Reviewer of the Year accolade.
A self-proclaimed perfectionist, Dr Monin enjoys applying his critiquing skills to the task of reviewing and is pleased to be able to use his tendency towards perfectionism as a force for good. He also likes uncovering novel, original research that offers interesting facts and findings. One article that springs to his mind is The BRITE Constellation Nanosatellite Mission: Testing, Commissioning, and Operations. The paper claims to serve as a template for effectively planning, building and operating future low-cost, niche-driven, space astronomy missions.
Viewing the current peer review process as straightforward and efficient, Dr Monin’s advice to those who are reviewing for the first time is to pay attention to detail. Even the best scientists make mistakes, he says, and it is up to reviewers to spot them.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr William Bridgman, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
- Dr Xavier Dumusque, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, United States
- Professor Ken Kellermann, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, United States
- Dr Mitsuru Kokubo, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Dr Geza Kovacs, Konkoly Observatory, Hungary
- Dr Ernst Paunzen, Masarykova univerzita Prirodovedecka Fakulta, Czech Republic
- Dr Taha Sochi, University College London, UK
- Andrew Vanderburg, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, United States
- Dr Héctor Vázquez Ramió, Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón, Spain
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Andrey Starikovskiy, Princeton University, United States
Based at Princeton University’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Dr Andrey Starikovskiy is an applied physics specialist whose research spans a wide range of problems within plasma science, from nonequilibrium plasma aerodynamics to kinetics of low-temperature plasma. He has a longstanding interest in the subject, having received his Doctor of Science degree from the Institute for High-Temperature Studies at the Russian Academy of Science in 2000 and his PhD from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) in 1991.
In Dr Starikovskiy’s opinion, the peer review process offers an excellent opportunity for the transfer of knowledge. He also sees it as a ‘good mechanism’ for maintaining high standards and improving the quality of papers overall. Not only does Plasma Sources Science and Technology sit well within his sphere of expertise, Dr Starikovskiy feels it his duty to uphold the quality of publications in his field and stop ‘garbage’ from being published.
Similar to the majority of reviewers, Dr Starikovskiy is looking for both novelty and excellence. The authors’ results must be clearly presented and offer something original to the research community. Certainly, for Dr Starikovskiy the most rewarding aspect of refereeing is having access to the latest, high-quality papers and new ideas.
Surprised to have been recognized for his efforts, Dr Starikovskiy feels it is a great honour to be named Reviewer of the Year. His short but straightforward advice to first-time reviewers is to avoid reading the authors’ names and to read the paper itself.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Professor Rod Boswell, The Australian National University, Australia
- Professor Mike Charlton, Swansea University, UK
- Dr Valeriy Chernyak, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
- Dr Ursel Fantz, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany
- Mr Torsten Gerling, Leibniz Institut fuer Plasmaforschung und Technologie, Germany
- Professor Jon Gudmundsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
- Dr Alan Howling, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Dr Yukikazu Itikawa, Private address, Japan
- Dr Sergey Leonov, University of Notre Dame, United States
- Professor George Naidis, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
- Dr Valerian Nemchinsky, Keiser University, United States
- Dr S Nijdam, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Dr Andrei Pipa, Leibniz Institut fuer Plasmaforschung und Technologie, Germany
- Professor Vladimir Rybkin, Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, Russia
- Dr J Sheehan, University of Michigan, United States
- Dr Olli Tarvainen, Jyvaskylan Yliopisto, Finland
- Professor Milan Tichy, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Dr Olga Vaulina, Russian Academy of Sciences – Institute of High Temperatures, Russia
- Dr Erik Wagenaars, University of York, UK
- Professor You-Nian Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
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
