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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
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Jing Jin, East China University of Science and Technology, China
For Dr Jing Jin it is an honour to be named Reviewer of the Year. Dr Jing feels it is his duty to contribute to the Journal of Neural Engineering and is keen to widen its sphere of influence. The published articles are of high quality, and the journal provides scientists with vital access to significant and relevant research.
When reviewing manuscripts, Dr Jing wants to see new findings, novel ideas and innovative techniques. He values articles that clearly contribute to their field of research, benefiting peers by shedding light on a particular question and enabling them to follow new lines of enquiry. It is therefore important that researchers demonstrate knowledge and present well thought out theories and methodologies.
Dr Jing is particularly excited by research that translates into practice or has real-world applications, citing Filter bank canonical correlation analysis for implementing a high-speed SSVEP-based brain–computer interface as one such paper that has recently captured his imagination.
As a reviewer, Dr Jing recognizes the importance of patience and advises others to be methodical in their approach to reviewing, knowing that if a manuscript is poorly written or contains grammatical and spelling errors, it is unlikely to be selected as a featured article even if the research itself is laudable. Dr Jing therefore encourages readers to vote for featured papers, in order to widen the influence of journals such as the Journal of Neural Engineering.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Cristian Axenie, Technische Universität München, Germany
- Dr Ian Daly, University of Reading, UK
- Dr Jean Delbeke, Private address, Belgium
- Dr Ilka Diester, Max Plank Gesellschaft Ernst Strungmann Institute, Germany
- Dr Jens Haueisen, Friedrich-Schiller Universitat Jena, Germany
- Mr Matt Higger, Northeastern University, United States
- Dr Dewen Hu, National University of Defense Technology, China
- Dr Mads Jochumsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Dr Stiliyan Kalitzin, Dutch Epilepsy Clinics Foundation, Netherlands
- Dr Joost le Feber, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Dr Hang Li, Lehigh University, United States
- Professor Winfried Mayr, Medizinische Universität Wien, Austria
- Dr Dennis McFarland, National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies, United States
- Dr Dan Merrill, Ripple, United States
- Dr Angel Peterchev, Duke University, United States
- Professor Gert Pfurtscheller, Technischen Universitaet Graz, Austria
- Professor James Reilly, McMaster University, Canada
- Dr Raphaëlle Roy, CEA, France
- Dr Felix Scholkmann, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
- Dr William Stacey, University of Michigan, United States
- Dr Luca Tonin, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Italy
- Dr George Townsend, Algoma University, Canada
- Dr Boshuo Wang, Duke University, United States
- Dr Matthew Wood, Washington University in St Louis, United States
Reviewer of the Year: Dr Zoltan Fekete, Institute for Technical Physics & Material Science, Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
A bioengineer, Dr Zoltan Fekete finds high-quality review articles useful for his own work. His research interest lies in the micro- and nanofabrication of implantable systems for neuroscience applications; and it is essential for Dr Fekete to keep up with advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).
Seeking to discover new approaches in the design of specific cell–device interfaces, he is especially interested in papers on novel sensing principles, fabrication schemes and biological sensor testing.
Dr Fekete is a regular reviewer and finds it particularly satisfying when authors are happier with their proposed manuscript after it has been revised. His approach to the process is to first identify the paper’s research highlights. Authors are generally looking to add novel ideas or discoveries to current literature, he says, and by focusing on the research results, reviewers might be more motivated to help present the work more clearly.
As for the peer review process itself, Dr Fekete would like to see the reviewer database regularly maintained so that editors have ready access to competent and appropriate reviewers.
Dr Fekete feels honoured to have been selected for this award. For him, it signals an important milestone and could pave the way for reviewers to become members of editorial boards, should they wish to do so in the long-term.
Outstanding Reviewers:
- Dr Steve Arscott, Institut d’Electronique de Microelectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN), France
- Dr Anirban Basu, Northeastern University, United States
- Mr R Brookhuis, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Dr Zhizhao Che, Imperial College London, China
- Dr Lingxin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, China
- Dr Paul Chiarot, State University New York – Binghamton, United States
- Professor Myung-Suk Chun, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
- Dr Ali Gökhan Demir, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Mr Huixu Deng, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
- Dr Gökhan Ergin, Dantec Dynamics A/S, Denmark
- Dr Luis Fonseca, IMB-CNM CSIC, Spain
- Professor Patrick Gane, Omya International AG and Aalto University, Switzerland
- Dr Tyler Harrison, University of Alberta, Canada
- Dr Xin Heng, University of Texas, Arlington, United States
- Professor Amy Herr, University of California – Berkeley, United States
- Dr Yoshikazu Hirai, Kyoto University, Japan
- Dr David Huber, SRI International, United States
- Mr Jeongmoo Huh, KAIST, Republic of Korea
- Professor Anne-Marie Kietzig, McGill University, Canada
- Mr Yoontae Kim, Drexel University, United States
- Professor Tsu-Jae King, University of California – Berkeley, United States
- Dr George Kokkoris, National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Greece
- Dr Michael Kraft, Universite de Liege, Belgium
- Dr Frieder Lucklum, University of Bremen, Germany
- Dr Mangirdas Malinauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Dr Anastassios Mavrokefalos, University of Houston, United States
- Dr Nicolaie Moldovan, Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc., United States
- Dr Ludovic Noels, University of Liege, Belgium
- Professor Mark Sheplak, University of Florida, United States
- Dr Joshua Small, University of California – Davis, United States
- Dr Suhas Somnath, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
- Dr Stephan Sylvest Keller, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Professor Shuji Tanaka, Tohoku University, Japan
- Dr R Tiggelaar, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Professor Guido Tosello, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Mr Leo Tse, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
- Dr Maaike M. Visser Taklo, SINTEF, Norway
- Dr Rafał Walczak, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
- Dr Xiao Wang, Harvard Medical School, United States
- Dr Yong-Kyu Yoon, University of Florida, United States
- Professor Chee Yue, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
