#DearReviewer…

Compiled by Editage Insights for Peer Review Week 2016

Notes of appreciation

from authors to

peer reviewers

I wish I could say I'd submitted something for which I'd received peer review. Hope to this year! Thanks in advance to all those who volunteer their time to be peer reviewers!- Bonita Steele -

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Thank you for your time

- Aarushi Gupta - Owner: Shri Aarushi; Director: Pulse

Care

Peer reviewers spend a lot of time analyzing the work of intellectuals, professionals, and other high-esteemed writers. This is because they provide insights into their work to indicate the positives and the negatives. Writers could be opinionated or averse to criticism. Peer reviewers, by not thinking about the identity of either party, give unbiased views about the text as they follow a strict code to comment on manuscripts. I really appreciate the work of peer reviewers for this reason. Hats off to them!

Hats off to you!

I really thank reviewers and experts. With limited data, they make me stand tall and look further for the science in my field! This aids my personal advancement!

- Zhang Weiqiang -

You help me develop further

Where do I begin? probably there is no word to describe a reviewer. This might be unorthodox, but in my opinion, most of the reviewers are like BATMAN. You don't know who they are but they make a big change in the academic world. To all of you - thank you for spending your personal time to make the world a better place.

#my real superhero - Ebrahim Mahmoudi –

Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universit Kebangsaan Malaysia

You are #myrealsuperhero In the process of paper

publication, peer reviewers are area experts and play an important role in order to represent the content in a well mannered way. Sometimes they help to author to identify overlooked ideas which can be incorporated in the text to make it more easily accessible and re-presentable. Reviewers help authors revise text by way of corrections and suggestions, which make the content strong and precise.

You are an expert!

- Shefali Agarwal –

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I would like to thank the lovely reviewer who has sent me a 4 page report, comments, questions, and recommendations when rejecting my manuscript. I appreciate the valuable time s/he spent while assessing my work. I am grateful for the work they do; nevertheless, I am terrified of them as I am coming to the end of my PhD and I have yet to publish my work thanks to a very strict and harsh assessment..... please be more kind when you next assess my manuscript please!

Thank you for the 4-page report

- Dastan Khalid -Department of Physics, College of Education,

Old Campus, University of Sulaiman, Iraq

Academic publishing system wouldn’t even exist without you!! Thank you very much.

- Anonymous author -

Thank you very much!

You made me a better medical writer

As a published author and peer reviewer myself, I do appreciate the work of peer reviewers in reaching a decision regarding a manuscript, even if it recommends rejection of the manuscript. Thank you, reviewers, for reviewing my manuscripts and helping me become a better medical writer.

- Farooq Rathore -

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Where would science be without you?

I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the peer-reviewers for their hard work. I have done some peer reviews myself and it is always a great challenge to undertake. It implies giving time away that can reduce your productivity; nevertheless, it is an essential activity for science. You don't get recognition and you don't get paid, and it seems like it is pretty much a bad deal for the reviewer! Nevertheless, where would science be without it? It is the commitment from the reviewers that keep science going! I really want to thank all peer reviewers for their hard and unconditional work! We may get frustrated when we get the reviews, but I doubt that anyone can say that the reviews have not contributed to make their research better... well, Einstein did it, and many years later he regretted it and apologized for it, since he recognized that the peer review he despised was correct. Thanks to all the peer reviewers!!!

- Christian M. Appendini –

Institute of Engineering of UNAM in Sisal, Yucatan, Mexico

#DearReviewer

Perhaps the thoughts of rejected manuscripts come quickly to mind when peer reviewers are mentioned; but that's not all they do. Peer reviewing is about ensuring/adding value. As skilled gate-keepers, peer reviewers hold researchers accountable to high ideals; bringing their findings to detailed scrutiny. This they do without much reward, ensuring the public is offered what is reliable and valid. There is no doubt a need to improve the peer reviewing process and perhaps, relax the gate keeping process. However, there are gains we have achieved through this process. These we can choose to celebrate. - Kenneth Yakubu -

Consultant Family Physician, Jos University Teaching Hospital, and Lecturer, Department of Family

Medicine , University of Jos, Nigeria

You add value!I thank each every reviewers who reviewed my paper. I hope scientific system will be more and more structured and everyone's scientific output get better and better!

- Zhang Weiqiang -

I thank every reviewer

I hold high respect for reviewer as well as peer review. Hope we can keep improving with their notice.

- Anonymous author -

I respect you

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I respect youI respect peer-reviewers and thank their indispensable collaboration in the advancement of good science writing.- Helena Filipe -

You sacrificed your time for me

I appreciate the sacrifices you make to give authors time-consuming and honest feedback.

- Anonymous author -

We love youDear reviewers, thank you for being selfless and committed enough to spend time helping to verify the public research record. We love you!"- Jon Tennant –

Imperial College London

The peer reviewer’s comment encouraged me and gave me a deep insight. Thank you!

You encouraged me

- Anonymous author -

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Yours is a priceless jobPeer reviewing is a paid less and priceless job. I am thankful to reviewers for spending their valuable time and resources for reviewing research papers. I am grateful to them for up keeping the standards of science. Though we are disappointed at times, we come back with better outcomes always. The reviewers truly deserve acknowledgement and gratitude from the scientific community.

- Dr KBRS Visarada – ICAR, Indian Institute of Millets Research,

Hyderabad, India

A tough job needs great people to make a great job! Thank you very much indeed!

- Sandra Bastos -Tanit Ganz Sanchez, Instituto Ganz Sanchez de Otorrinolaringologia,

São Paulo, Brazil

You are great!

I acknowledge and appreciate your work as a reviewer. I can mention three or four reviewers who reviewed my papers!

- Mrs. Chand.C.G.Devadason -Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Eastern

University, Sri Lanka

I acknowledge your work

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Thanks for all your hard work!

Your perspectives help!

- Karl Muller - - Anonymous author -

As a scientific editor who deals

with many peer-review processes,

I truly appreciate having clear,

thoughtful comments from

reviewers that unpack a paper

properly and allow its full benefit

to be realised. Their efforts in

untangling a complex topic are a

godsend when one is not

particularly familiar with a subject.

Thanks for all your hard work!

Everyone has their own little ways of life, sometimes right, sometimes wrong. I thank you all for taking time off and reviewing all of my views. Because sometimes, a dual perspective in life helps like nothing else

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- Ahmed M Kamel -

Researcher, School of Pharmacy, Cairo

University

In gratitude

- Filomena Borrageiro – Nursing Standards Manager, Life Kingsbury Hospital

Peer reviewers: Thank you for your time, commitment and dedication in sharing your expertise which contributes to the maturity of the writer.

Thanks for your contribution to

the science. Without your

thoughtful comments and

critiques, the scientific

publication process would not

have been the way it is today.

Thank you"

Thanks for your

contribution

I would like to express my gratitude to two reviewers who kindly reviewed and provided insightful comments & suggestion for improving my manuscript titled "Historical Changes of Land Tenure and Land Use Rights in a Local Community: A Case Study in Lao PDR".

A thank-you note for you

- BOUTTHAVONG Saykham – Ph.D. Student, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Graduate School of Social and Cultural Study, Kyushu University

Really, the job you do is of great importance since it is the base to make a quality journals, so all writers and researchers are grateful to you. Thank you for you cooperation.

Your job is very important

- Dr. Carlos Eróstegu –

#DearReviewer

Thank you very much for putting my priorities before yours or your family’s! Why do you even engage in practice that is unpaid and in many instances not properly recognised towards your promotion or tenure? Where is your enthusiasm coming from? What feeds your motivation? How do you find time in your busy academic research life to devote it to reviewing my manuscript?

- Dr Elena Danilova – Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Scholarly Communication and Repository Services, Learning &

Research Services, The University of Queensland Library, Australia

Where is your enthusiasm coming from?

Peer review has its flaws and limitations, however it truly is in the heart of scholarly communication and peer-reviewers are the vessels delivering vital supply for research to live and prosper! Acknowledging your invaluable contribution to the quality of research, I – the writer, promise be attentive to detail in my manuscripts, never cross ethical boundaries and respond positively to your comments and suggestions!

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I am indebted to youExpressing heartfelt gratitude

- Elizabeth Edoni –

Doctoral Student, School of Nursing & Public

Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard

College, Durban

- Dr. S K Mukhopadhyay – UGC Emeritus Fellow, GCELT, LB-III, Salt Lake,

Kolkata, India

Over the last thirty years I have published over a hundred research communications in a number of peer reviewed journals. In each case the comments of the reviewers have helped me brush up the manuscript to make it more readable and my arguments more justified to focus on the hypothesis. These comments gave clarity to my thoughts and in refining methodologies. I am deeply indebted to all my anonymous reviewers.

May I use this medium to

give my heartfelt gratitude for all the time and efforts

you put in to review massive

loads of researchers articles,

research works and the likes

of it. On behalf of the world of authors, I express our

heartfelt gratitude to you

unreservedly. It is my prayer,

that God will help you in all your heartfelt desires

henceforth in Jesus name.

You helped me during my PhD

- Tahir Mahmood - PhD, Animal Nutrition

I believe the reviewers do a commendable but thankless job. I have a personal experience of my own research papers. As these research papers were part of my PhD research, the critical evaluation by reviewers helped a great deal to improve my PhD thesis ultimately. Thus, I really appreciate the role and impact reviewers have on published research.

#DearReviewer

I appreciate peer reviews, they bring pain, training and joy. It's all a mixture of what life truly is. This training is only possible because of the efforts of some people. We just say 'reviewers', yet these are individuals with life responsibilities and demands, who go out of their way to make publishing worthwhile. And what's more, they are mostly not rewarded for this noble cause!

- Olubusola Johnson -Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

You bring pain, training, and joy!

I just want to say thank you to all peer reviewers out there...even though authors do not always agree with you! And yes, we know that you, too, are individuals with your own opinions! The academic publishing world needs you more than ever before! Thank you!

#DearReviewer

When I first submitted to Nuclear Engineering and Technology, the reviewer comments were totally beyond my expectations. They were so detail, from word spelling to the exact meaning of some technical terms, paper title, sentence structure and even the important observation as well as supporting material, reviewers gave very object and professional comments. Revision not only make the paper quality improved, but also benefited my writing skill in the future. I sincerely thank reviewers. How carefully they read our paper is probably more than myself. I reply their comments in detail and learn from it. I think I will keep improving my research and

- Guo Haibing –

You read my paper more carefully than I ever did!

Thank you for the silent efforts

I thank all reviewers foe their silent efforts. Please consider our feelings too. Your comments can be direct, but not attacking.

- Anonymous author -

I wish you all the bestI think that to be a peer reviewer it`s a great honor and they really worth to be congratulated. I highly appreciate the work they do and wish to them all the best. - Vladyslav Kravchuk -

Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, NAS of Ukraine

writing skill to contribute to science progress. This may be the best return for them.

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Endless thanks to youTogether, we make a team

- Dr. Garima Pandey – - CHUCK CHUAN, NG - Lecturer and Head of Programme, School of Green Science and Engineering, Greencity International

College (KAGC), Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

I do sincerely appreciate the constructive comments given by all of the scientific article journal reviewers for their invaluable patience, ideas sharing, cooperative facilitation, continuous support and guidance throughout my entire journey of academic writing. Once again, a big shout out and endless thanks to all the unbiased, noble and diligent work of reviewers.

I have great respect for peer-

reviewers. Being on both sides of the

table, I understand, that the author

and the peer- reviewers make a

complete team.

Peer –reviewing is like tweaking a

potential manuscript in such a way

that increases its acceptability

manifold by developing a coherent

network of knowledge.

A big applause to you

- Syaliza Omar, RPh, PhD -Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, University

Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia

Thank you for your endless support and effort to the peer review process. It is a great appreciation to knowing that the research works are being recognized. Your instructive comments make a crucial difference in the career of researcher.

#DearReviewer

I realize your remarks have been made to help me improve this study. Thank you for taking your time to help me doing this with despite your busy timetable. The remarks and corrections you made are in the sense to make this study more clear and more precise for the future readers that may not like to waste their time. I will work to improve this writing and make the most comprehensible. Real thanks for the job you do for science to go ahead. - Komla S AMOUZOU –

Universite de Lome, Togo

God bless youI completely agree that the academic publishing system wouldn’t even exist without our dear reviewers. The comments that they give are only for the betterment of the manuscripts and I personally feel that they play a great role in raising the standard of the submitted manuscript. I really thank them for all their efforts, patience and the time they spend to read our manuscripts. Their comments are undoubtedly valuable.Best wishes to all the reviewers!

Your comments are valuable

- Sonali Mohapatra –

#DearReviewer

Wang Xiaodong said this before,

"Scientific research is peeping God's

work." It is definitely a journey with a

lot of trial and error since we are using

human power to know God. How to

avoid getting on wrong road?

Reviewers' harsh comments are bitter

medicine, taste bad, but good for body.

It is a treasure to avoid mistake and

see God's work.

Your comments are a treasure

Thank every reviewer's affirmation and pointing out problem to authors' work. Every manuscript published by us requires your efforts and contribution. In fact, I am also a reviewer for many journals. I know the importance of review work. You have to read one paper several times, and spend one to two weeks time to understand a paper thoroughly, then you are qualified to review a paper and arrive conclusion...

- Wang Haixia -

I know the importance of your work

- Yao Wanxia -

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- Zahra Ghannad -

I loved to hate you

- Dr. Sudhir Kumar –

My first reaction was: “How dare

you evaluate me? Who are you to

assess the quality of my work? I

know better than you.” Honestly,

though, I loved to hate you. Then

the clinical thinking transformed

hatred into love when I found my

final product refined, sparkling and

rich. Many many thanks.

We are grateful to you for the

critical comments and useful

suggestions that have helped us

to improve our paper considerably. Authors would like

to pass their great acknowledgement to the Reviewer for his valuable

comments, which make the

paper more convenient.

You make publishing more

convenient

Peer Reviewers are doing a wonderful and thankless academic jobs. Personally I wish to use this medium to appreciate them and their contributions to academic development

You are doing a wonderful job

- Dr. Greg Ezeah –

#DearReviewer

You are awesome

Reviewers give feedback and

suggestion from various perspectives.

They have more comprehensive

thinking so that comments can

improve paper content, level up the

paper. Give them a "awesome"!- Chen Yiqiu -

Thank you for your comments

My paper was recently accepted after

the 3-round peer review. I am very

thankful for the peer reviewers. A

number of useful, polite, constructive

advices made my paper much better. I

spent my effort for revising work per

the comments by many-fold than

writing the original manuscript. During

the revision process, I have learned

many things. I can't thank you enough

for giving me the good opportunity to

learn. - Anonymous author -

I learned many things

Thank all the reviewer comments. If comments are hurting, it means reviewer read your paper carefully. I don't like reviewer who only says "no novelty" and reject paper. - Anonymous author -

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Honestly, the moment I receive the reviewer's reports I think che palle!, and I repeat this for the whole day, possibly with the company of my co-authors. Then, after a while, I can recognize that some remarks are useful... let's say I'd offer a beer to a few reviewers ;-)” [“che palle” is some slang meaning “it sucks”] - Anonymous author –

I’d offer you a beer!

I agree that peer reviewing is a thankless job. If not for them, we authors who are most of the time thinking that we know everything and a third party reader will surely understand our perspective, we would be lost totally. Though they are painful to tolerate, nevertheless a carbon needs to be polished to shine.....I thank all those who do this job, for they are the most needed to keep us grounded and tell us there is no perfection in science...It is just attempts to gain perfection.. Kudos to the charisma that we love to hate so much....

Kudos to you!

- Dr Shrikanth Muralidharan –

Senior lecturer, MA Rangoonwala College of Dental Sciences and Research Center India

#DearReviewer

Science needs youIn life people do the same thing for different reasons. I do not think a scientist would be angry when he receives some good advices to correct some mistakes or for any reason to improve a manuscript if its reason was to bring a pure knowledge. May be a philosopher or a religious person does not need a peer reviewer, but we need you in science to keep helping us protect our interest in science.- Enock Balthazar –

Medical school, University of Buenos Aires

Reviewers teach you how to do researchI always think manuscript is a way of communication. I can advance my understanding about the problem through communicating with reviewers. This is also a transition of scientific skill. Reviewers teach you how to do research when they comment on your paper.- Lu Xinyu –

Thank you!

Thank reviewer's work on

paper which makes our

point more precisely.

- Zhou Peiwen –

#DearReviewer

Reviewers really deserve appreciation for their job. Quality reviewing without any payment is sometimes tedious but a great service to science and ultimately to humanity. Although there is no reward in the form of money, but there is reward for the future generations in the form of quality knowledge and products.

- Dr. Muhammad Shahid – Assistant Professor, Department of

Bioinformatics & Biotechnology, G.C. University, Faisalabad

You deserve appreciation

Many thanks for giving me more comments in my manuscripts. Because of your suggestions, most of my manuscripts could be accepted by the journal I submitted them to last year. I really appreciate you for your help. In the past, from peer reviewers, I really had the good opportunity to learn how to write a correct and good manuscript in English, and how to express the abstract and conclusion sections that are most hard to write. I really learn more information from you.

You taught me manuscript writing

- Yang, Sheng-Zehn – Teacher, Department of Forestry,

National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

#DearReviewer

You are skilled gatekeepers

Perhaps the thoughts of rejected manuscripts come quickly to mind when peer reviewers are mentioned; but that's not all they do. Peer reviewing is about ensuring/adding value. As skilled gate-keepers, peer reviewers hold researchers accountable to high ideals; bringing their findings to detailed scrutiny. This they do without much reward, ensuring the public is offered what is reliable and valid. There is no doubt a need to improve the peer reviewing process and perhaps, relax the gate keeping process. However, there are gains we have achieved through this process. These we can choose to celebrate.

- Kenneth Yakubu - Consultant Family Physician, Jos

University Teaching Hospital Lecturer, Department of Family

Medicine, University of Jos, Nigeria

#DearReviewer

You shape manuscripts

An honest appraisal

- Anonymous author –

- Dr.R.Mala – Associate Professor, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, SivaKasi, India

Peer review shapes the article in a different dimension. It improves the article in many ways. Certainly, the author is benefited by the peer review process. It totally perfects the author while writing the next article. At one point, the comments will be less and immediately the paper will be accepted. All reviewers should be acknowledged for their great service to the academic field.

I have appreciated reviewers

for giving me great suggestions that helped me to

drastically improve my papers,

for pointing me to important

work, and for fairly considering

the strengths and weaknesses

of my work in their decision. I

have despised reviewers for

reading my papers hastily, for

being overly opinionated in

their criticism, and for ignoring

my rebuttal in their final decision.

Your comments are objective

- Anonymous author -

I always respect review comments. Most of

review comments are objective. Even though

there may be conflict, paper still can get

accepted after revision. It shows the tolerant

nature of academia. Especially some experts

can accurately point out the problem in paper, I

learn a lot during revising paper.

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Without you the system is incomplete

Peer reviewers play a great role in academic writing. Without them this system is incomplete. I really appreciate all of them to participate in academic writing and publishing system. And thanks to all reviewers for helping in the advancement to the related fields.

- Sikander Shirazi –

Peer review is an important part of manuscript acceptance which gives more worthiness to manuscripts. This will not be possible without untiring efforts of reviewers. It is true that some reviewers' comments might be frustrating and disappointing but the comments, at the end of the day, improve the quality of the manuscript and allow authors to learn more about academic writing. Reviewers efforts are hereby appreciated immensely. - Mukadas O. Akindele –

Senior Lecturer and Honorary Physiotherapist, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Bayero University, Nigeria

Your efforts are appreciated immensely

#DearReviewer

I have great honour and respect for reviewers

because their views and scientific comments

based on their depth knowledge shape

manuscripts to a higher level, making it more

sound and comprehensive to a wider readership.

For this reason, I am very glad and want to send

my gratitude for your efforts to recognize their

work by celebrating international peer review

week. - G.E.Kebede –

I honor and respect

youOur paper is stronger

We just finished revising a paper in response to three peer reviews that were clear, well-reasoned, and

thoughtful, and our paper is undoubtedly much stronger as a result. I definitely appreciate those peer reviewers.

- Anonymous author - Thank you for your effortsI often tend to make complaint to peer reviewers, but I thank them for their big effort. It is admirable to know that academic publishing system is kept by such volunteer spirit. Your continuous support would be highly appreciated. - Anonymous author -

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You are like a good friend

- Omar Pandoli -Pontificia Universidade Católica; Departamento de

Química, Rio de Janeiro

"I really thank all my reviewers for a good job offered to me all the time I argued them to improve my scientific work. A good reviewer is a good friend able to listen and to read your scientific work. If he is a good leader , he will be interested to suggest how to follow a way to improve your work and found out new interesting results. Always, we should keep in mind that every work never is totally completed. Every new results can open new curiosities and new questions. A good friend/review understand your progress and accept new doubts to support your research."

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