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Reviewer of the Year: Dr Christian Beck
The Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics is one of the highest-ranking nuclear physics journals, and includes both experimental and theoretical articles. Considering its high impact factor, Dr Christian Beck demands that the papers he reviews are rigorous and original; authors must be meticulous in the presentation of their results and include a bibliography. If any of these requirements are lacking, he will reject the manuscript.
Interestingly, one paper Dr Beck particularly enjoyed working on has not been accepted for publication. Although both of his reports were positive, a second referee did not share his views. This type of opposition does not deter Dr Beck. On the contrary, he finds it rewarding to come across differences in opinion. He is also gratified when authors take on board his suggestions and implement changes.
Both surprised and proud to have been awarded the Reviewer of the Year accolade, Dr Beck has three points of advice for those who are embarking on the peer review process for the first time: look out for originality and accuracy; write a full report that includes a list of typos, false statements that need correcting, a general overview and suggestions; and finally, assess how the work advances the field, both experimentally and theoretically, and whether it offers a fresh perspective.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Professor F Avignone, University of South Carolina – Columbia, United States
- Professor A Balantekin, University of Wisconsin at Madison, United States
- Dr Roelof Bijker, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico – Coyoacan, Mexico
- Professor Richard Casten, Yale University, United States
- Dr Rajdeep Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Technology, India
- Dr Sergei Chekanov, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
- Dr V Yu Denisov, INR, Ukraine
- Dr Henning Esbensen, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
- Professor Frank Filthaut, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Dr Gerald Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Yi Gu, Stony Brook University, United States
- Dr Kouichi Hagino, Tohoku University, Japan
- Dr Christoph Hanhart, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
- Professor Sigurd Hofmann, GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Germany
- Professor M Ivanov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
- Dr Valery Lyubovitskij, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
- Dr Grant Mathews, University of Notre Dame, France
- Professor Steve Moszkowski, University of California – Los Angeles, United States
- Professor Per Osland, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
- Dr Orlando Peres, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
- Professor Dr Piero Quarati, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Professor Thomas Rauscher, University of Hertfordshire, UK and University of Basel, Switzerland
- Professor Zhong-Zhou Ren, Nanjing University, China
- Professor Guy Royer, SUBATECH – Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
- Dr Nicholas Scielzo, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
- Professor Dr Alfredo Valcarce, University of Salamanca, Spain
- Dr Petr Vogel, California Institute of Technology, United States
Reviewer of the Year: Professor Aurelien Dantan, Aarhus University, Denmark
There are two primary reasons why Professor Aurelien Dantan referees for the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. First, he regards the peer review process as an important service to the scientific community. Second, he reviews out of curiosity. As a reviewer, he finds it inspiring to be party to new physics research, whether specifically related to his field or not.
For this second reason, Professor Dantan expresses his interest in the article Nonlinear quantum optics mediated by Rydberg interactions, which he thought gives a concise and accessible review of the latest developments in this ‘exciting field’.
When reviewing, Professor Dantan wants to see a clear and rigorous presentation and interpretation of the results. It is also important that the paper adds something new to existing knowledge. His advice to first-time reviewers is to be thorough and fair, and to put forward as much constructive criticism as possible.
Professor Dantan feels honoured to have been recognized for his efforts through the Reviewer of the Year award. He believes reviewers should be acknowledged, particularly in view of the fact that there are an ever-increasing number of papers and journals. This puts a heavy burden on the shoulders of referees, he says, and threatens to diminish both the quality of the peer review process and the feedback to authors. One suggestion he has is to heighten editorial filtering, which would mean rejecting (possibly anonymously) more papers that are clearly not up to journal standards.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Zikri Altun, Marmara University, Turkey
- Professor Edward Armour, University of Nottingham, UK
- Professor Henri Bachau, Universite de Bordeaux I, France
- Professor Dr Dieter Bauer, Universitat Rostock, Germany
- Dr Wilhelm Becker, Max-Born-Institut fuer Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Germany
- Professor E Benis, The University of Ioannina, Greece
- Dr Anand Bhatia, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
- Dr Wei Cao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Kalyan Chakrabarti, Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta, India
- Dr Joel Corney, University of Queensland, Australia
- Dr C Dal Cappello, Universite de Lorraine, France
- Professor Dr Ph Demekhin, University of Kassel, Germany
- Professor He Feng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Dr Jorge Fernandez Hernandez, European Space Astronomy Centre, Spain
- Dr Luis Fernandez-Menchero, Drake University, United States
- Dr L Gulyas, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia – Atommagkutato Intezete, Hungary
- Professor Alan Hibbert, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
- Dr Paul Huillery, Durham University, UK
- Dr Kari Jankala, University of Oulu, Finland
- Dr Matthew Jones, Durham University, UK
- Dr Nikolai Kabachnik, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Dr Jean-Philippe Karr, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (UPMC/CNRS/ENS/Collège de France) and Université d’Evry-Val d’Essonne, France
- Dr Martin Kiffner, Centre for Quantum Technologies (Singapore) and University of Oxford, UK
- Dr Kean Loon Lee, Newcastle University, UK
- Professor Ronald McCarroll, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Professor M Naderi, University of Isfahan, Iran
- Dr Sebastian Otranto, CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
- Dr Patrick Palmeri, Universite de Mons, Belgium
- Dr Yaroslav Pavlyukh, Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
- Dr Liang-You Peng, Peking University, China
- Dr Sebastiano Peotta, Aalto University, Finland
- Dr Yuri Ralchenko, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
- Dr Sanjukta Roy, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
- Dr Bijaya Sahoo, Physical Research Laboratory, India
- Professor Dr Sergio Sanchez, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
- Dr Jiteng Sheng, University of Arkansas, China
- Dr Yu-Bo Sheng, Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, China
- Dr Nikolay Shvetsov-Shilovski, Leibniz University Hanover, Russia
- Professor Andrei Sidorov, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Professor Kalle-Antti Suominen, University of Turku, Finland
- Mr Lauri Toikka, Massey University, New Zealand
- Dr Benoît Vermersch, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
- Dr Jia Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Dr Sebastian Wuester, Max Planck Institute for Physic Complex System, Germany
- Dr Keyu Xia, ARC Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems, Australia
- Dr Xinhua Xie, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Dr Vladislav Yakovlev, Georgia State University, Germany
- Professor Weiping Zhang, East China Normal University, China
- Dr Boris Zhilinskii, Universite du Littoral cote d’Opale, France
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Jukka Kiukas, Aberystwyth University, UK
A lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Aberystwyth University, Wales, Dr Jukka Kiukas finds that the papers he reviews for the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical complement his own research. One paper that recently piqued his interest deals with dynamical aspects of temporal quantum correlations: Divisible quantum dynamics satisfies temporal Tsirelson’s bound.
The journal reports on the mathematical structures that describe the physical world and on the analytical, computational and numerical methods for exploring these structures. Thus, when reviewing a manuscript, Dr Kiukas insists on mathematically rigorous arguments.
If the content of the article is on a subject Dr Kiukas knows well, he expects to be intrigued by the results or to learn something new. For this reason, authors should ensure that their paper does not significantly overlap with other published papers and include a well-written introduction that explains why their work is relevant.
Dr Kiukas’ advice to first-time reviewers is to seek out the main points in the manuscript. If the significance of the paper is not obvious, then the reviewer should ask the author to put forward their message more clearly. This constructive criticism is far more valuable to authors than singling out more minor issues, he says.
Knowing that everyone appreciates a timely review, Dr Kiukas believes all researchers should put some effort into reviewing.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Elena Agliari, Sapienza Universita degli Studi di Roma, Italy
- Dr Olivier Benichou, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Professor N Bogoliubov, Russian Academy of Sciences – Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia
- Dr Manuel Calixto, Universidad de Granada, Spain
- Professor Junpeng Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Physics, China
- Dr Omar Cherbal, USTHB University, France
- Dr Andrey Cherstvy, Universitat Potsdam, Germany
- Dr Cesar de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil
- Dr Davide Fioravanti, INFN, Italy
- Dr Euihun Joung, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
- Dr Karol Kozlowski, Ecole Normale Suppérieure de Lyon, France
- Dr Alexander Manashov, Hamburg University, Germany
- Dr Carlos Mejia-Monasterio, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
- Professor Marijan Milekovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Dr Miquel Montero, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
- Professor Gleb Oshanin, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Professor Matteo G A Paris, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Dr Jesus Salas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Dr Gregory Schehr, Universite de Paris-Sud, France
- Professor Gunter Schuetz, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
- Dr Hugo Touchette, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Dr Linus Wulff, Imperial College London, UK
- Dr Honghua Zhong, Jishou University, China
Reviewer of the Year: Professor Tie Jun Cui, Southeast University, China
Dedicated to metamaterials and plasmonics research, Professor Tie Jun Cui enjoys reviewing manuscripts for the Journal of Optics, a high-standard and high-impact international journal that covers all areas of pure and applied optics.
A recent example of a paper that resonated with him was an article entitled Optical quantum memory based on electromagnetically induced transparency. In it, the authors present the physical principle and theory of quantum memory, and discuss the key technologies for implementing quantum memory based on electromagnetically induced transparency.
Similar to many referees, Professor Cui looks for novelty in the form of new ideas and results when reviewing. He is keen to help authors, viewing the task as an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with the latest developments in optics research.
Professor Cui advises new reviewers to read related published papers before tackling the manuscript. Once equipped with relevant knowledge, the reviewer should take their time, seeking out novelty and reviewing methodically.
Generally, Professor Cui believes that the current peer review process is of high standard, although his one suggestion for change would be for editors to select reviewers from different regions and backgrounds. This, he feels, would help encourage diversity in opinions.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Alessandro Alberucci, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Dr Aleksandr Bekshaev, Odessa I I Mechnikov National University, Ukraine
- Dr Yang Cao, Rice University, United States
- Dr Wen Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Miss Shiyi Chen, Cisco Systems Inc., United States
- Professor Yidong Chong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Dr Benito Dorrio, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
- Professor Ying Gu, Peking University, China
- Mr Ben Hopkins, Australian National University, Australia
- Dr Mathieu Juan, Macquarie University, Australia
- Dr Rigoberto Juarez-Salazar, Instituto Politécnico Nacional” by “CONACYT – Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
- Professor Thomas Krauss, University of York, UK
- Dr Guangyuan Li, Nanyang Technological University, China
- Dr Xiaohui Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, China
- Professor Xue-ming Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, China
- Dr Wolfgang Loeffler, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
- Professor Boris Malomed, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Professor Alexei Maradudin, University of California Irvine, United States
- Dr Giovanni Milione, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., United States
- Dr Andrey Miroshnichenko, The Australian National University, Australia
- Professor Ignacio Moreno, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
- Dr Bai Nie, PolarOnyx Inc., United States
- Dr Naveen Nishchal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
- Dr Marco Ornigotti, Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Germany
- Dr Sarang Pendharker, University of Alberta, Canada
- Dr Joaquin Perez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Dr Sebastian Schulz, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Dr Christian Schuster, University of York, UK
- Dr Manuel Servin Guirado, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica A. C., Mexico
- Dr Mohit Sharma, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India
- Professor David Simon, Stonehill College, United States
- Dr Amalia Torre, ENEA CR Frascati, Italy
- Dr Christos Tserkezis, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Dr Alex Turpin, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Dr J Vargas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Spain
- Dr Xiaogang Wang, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, China
- Dr Xi Wang, University of California Berkeley, United States
- Dr Martijn Wubs, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Dr Li Xia, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Dr Zhimou Xu, Xian Technolgy University, China
- Professor Xiaodong Yang, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
- Professor Han Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Dr Bosheng Zhang, KLA Tencor, United States
- Professor Guoquan Zhou, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, China
