In this issue we acknowledge the help of over 2,500 evaluating the importance of the research question and in reviewers who produced more than 10 000 reports since helping targeting key questions. we took office in June 1995. There is only limited What does this mean? We think it means that young information on the quality of such reports and on the way reviewers should be recruited by editors ...

As of January 2017, The Plant Cellwill offer authors the option of associating a Peer Review Report with each research article. Reviewer anonymity will be strictly maintained. The reports will include the major comments from reviewers and the editors’ decision letters along with the authors’ response to reviewers for each submission of themanuscript (including original, revised, and previously ...

distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page SAGE Open Medical Case Reports is an open access journal that publishes short case reports providing key insights into real medical cases that are essential for physicians, and that ultimately help to improve patient outcomes. It publishes online only and do...

Guidelines for the preparation of structured reports for laboratory studies, clinical studies, epidemiological studies, and observations could be useful. A structured report should prompt reviewers to acknowledge familiarity or otherwise with method, background papers, and so on. New reviewers could draw up their own system. Reports should be helpful and courteous so that whether or not the pap...

CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS A peer-reviewed journal would not survive without the generous time and insightful comments of the reviewers, whose efforts often go unrecognized. Although final decisions are always editorial, they are greatly facilitated by the deeper technical knowledge, scientific insights, understanding of social consequences, and passion that reviewers bring to our deliberations. Fo...

Abstract This study seeks to draw connections between the grant proposal peer-review and gender representation in research consortia. We examined implementation of a multi-disciplinary, pan-European funding scheme—EUROpean COllaborative RESearch Scheme (2003–2015)—and reviewers’ materials that this generated. EUROCORES promoted investigator-driven, multinational collaborative multiple scientifi...

This special issue of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports honors the reviewers who donated their time and expertise to the high quality and success of this journal.