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Nanotechnology: 2016 Reviewer Awards

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

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering: 2016 Reviewer Awards

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

Metrologia: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Outstanding Reviewers:

Dr Andreas Bauch, Physikalisch – Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Dr Clemens Elster, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Dr Hao Fang, BIPM, France
Dr Andrew Lewis, National Physical Laboratory, UK
Dr D Matsakis, US Naval Observatory, United States
Dr Malcolm McEwen, National Research Council of Canada – Ottawa, Canada
Professor Leslie Pendrill, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden
Dr Peter Saunders, Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand, New Zealand
Dr Peter Steur, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy
Dr Emma Woolliams, National Physical Laboratory, UK

Methods and Applications in Fluorescence: 2016 Reviewer Awards

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

Preparing your source files for journal articles

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Supplementary dataset 1	Dataset including data on the characterisation of the endothelial cell network formation within EngNT-HUVEC

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Title

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Authors

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Abstract

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Results

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Discussion

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Conclusion

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Acknowledgements

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Ethical statement

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References

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Measurement Science and Technology: 2016 Reviewer Awards

Reviewer of the Year: Dr Jože Kutin, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia

Working in fluid flow and pressure metrology—subjects that are also a feature of Measurement Science and Technology—Dr Jože Kutin will accept an invitation to referee if the paper corresponds to his field of expertise, interest and ability to meet the review schedule.

When reviewing, Dr Kutin looks for the paper’s central idea and whether it takes into account already-available findings in the scientific literature. He lays stress upon the correctness of the research methodology and the results, as well as clarity in the presentation.

According to Dr Kutin, refereeing is a form of cooperation between researchers; and, as a reviewer, he feels he is contributing to the quality of presented scientific papers and, consequently, to a positive development of his research field.

Overall, Dr Kutin believes that the current peer-review process is good in journals with editorial advisory boards and structured reviewer databases comprising highly qualified professionals. It is important that papers are reviewed by experts, he says, who are able to provide a critical judgement about the authors’ research contribution.

His advice to first-time reviewers is to bear in mind that remarks should be clearly argued and supported by objective evidence. In this way, authors will be more amenable to making corrections, increasing the likelihood of valuable discussions.

Outstanding Reviewers:

Professor Massimiliano Avalle, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Dr M Bakker, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Mr Qingzhong Cai, Beihang University, China
Dr Ayan Chakrabarty, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
Dr Valeri Chikovani, Natsional’nij aviatsiynyi universitet, Ukraine
Dr Sejong Chun, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Republic of Korea
Dr Mark Clarkson, Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand
Dr Moises Cywiak, Centro de Investigaciones Opticas, Mexico
Professor Paulo de Brito Andre, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Professor Richard Dewhurst, The University of Manchester, UK
Dr G Dimitrakis, University of Nottingham, UK
Dr Gerrit Elsinga, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Dr Ruimin Feng, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States
Dr Noriyuki Furuichi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Metrology Institute of Japan, Japan
Professor Patrick Gane, Omya AG, Switzerland
Professor John Girkin, Durham University, UK
Dr Adam Glowacz, Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza im Stanislawa Staszica w Krakowie, Poland
Dr Gregor Goett, Leibniz Institut fuer Plasmaforschung und Technologie, Germany
Dr Rainer Hain, Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen, Germany
Dr Han Haitjema, Mitutoyo Research Centre Europe, Netherlands
Dr Peter Harris, National Physical Laboratory, UK
Dr Kenichi Hibino, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Ibaraki, Japan
Dr Udo Kaatze, Universitaet Goettingen, Germany
Mr Hyoungsoo Kim, Princeton University, United States
Dr Ludger Koenders, Physikalisch – Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Professor D Koon, St Lawrence University, United States
Dr R Koops, VSL Dutch Metrology Institute, Netherlands
Dr Christine Kranz, Universitaet Ulm, Germany
Dr Nicolas Lammens, UGent, Belgium
Professor Sang Joon Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Dr Xiang Li, Xidian University, China
Dr Xianming Liu, Chongqing University, China
Dr Guigen Liu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Dr Jiazhen Lu, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Dr Andrew Malcolm, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
Dr A Martinez Olmos, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Dr Jimmie Miller, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
Dr M Mohd Noor, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Arden Moore, Louisiana Tech University, United States
Dr Jody Muelaner, University of Bath, UK
Professor Dr Yuichi Murai, Hokkaido University, Japan
Dr Tuck Ng, Monash University, Australia
Dr Roberto Olmi, CNR – Istituto di Fisica Applicata ‘Nello Carrara’, Italy
Professor Chansik Park, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea
Professor Lihui Peng, Tsinghua University, China
Dr Stefan Persijn, VSL, Netherlands
Dr Steven Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Dr Primoz Podrzaj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr Igor Prikhodko, Analog Device Inc., United States
Professor Agustin Salazar, Universidad del Pais Vasco – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
Dr Silvia María Satorres Martínez, University of Jaen, Spain
Dr Frank Scholze, Physikalisch – Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Dr Liang Shu, Wenzhou University, China
Dr Joel Silver, Southwest Sciences Inc., United States
Professor Allan Spence, McMaster University, Canada
Professor Jo Spronck, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Dr Alexandr Stupakov, Institute of Physics ASCR, Czech Republic
Dr Yang Su, PLA University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Osamu Terashima, Toyama Prefectural University, Japan
Dr M van Veghel, VSL, Netherlands
Dr Dong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Dr Peng Wang, Tianjin University, China
Professor Fei Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Mr Xiaoyi Wang, Beijing University of Technology, China
Professor Mi Wang, University of Leeds, UK
Dr William Wang, University of Sussex, UK
Dr Xin Wang, Northwestern University, United States
Dr Richard Whalley, Newcastle University, UK
Professor Michal Wieczorowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Mr B Wieneke, LaVision GmbH, Germany
Dr Cheng Xie, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre, UK
Professor Dr Guan Xu, Jilin University, China
Dr Hua Yan, Shenyang University of Technology, China
Dr Wang yanqing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Opto-electronics, China
Dr Wuliang Yin, The University of Manchester, UK
Professor Bernhard Zagar, Johannes-Kepler-Universitat Linz, Austria
Dr Yinan Zhang, Lumentum, United States

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