Outstanding JASMS Manuscript Reviewers, 2016–2017

“Horrible,” “terrible,” “boring,” “not impressed at all,” “underwhelming,” “awful,” “blasé,” “unmitigated disaster,” “disgusting”—no, these are not terms found in reviews of manuscripts submitted to JASMS. Rather, these are words found in some on-line reviews of restaurants that I (J.A.L.) frequent and often use to host department seminar speakers. (Obviously, I disagree with these reviews. But I hope that you won’t think twice if I invite you out for a meal and a department seminar.)

Although these words directly convey the sentiment intended, rather negative here, they do so in a mean and hurtful manner. Fortunately, our manuscript reviewers do not use such phrases, and our editors would not allow for such harsh comments.

Definitions of to review include “to give a critical evaluation of” and “to assess (something) formally with the intention of instituting change if necessary.” We employ peer review to improve the quality of the manuscript. Reviewers’ evaluations help us to decide whether or not to accept a manuscript for publication. A reviewer’s comments should be objective, constructive, and designed to improve and enhance the manuscript.

Therefore, we value not only the number of times the reviewers expend considerable effort to provide us with timely manuscript evaluations but also the quality of the reviewers’ comments. Occasionally, authors will acknowledge the suggestions from reviewers directly in the final version of the manuscript. Reviewers provide exemplary and premium service not only to the journal but also to the authors.

Our most outstanding reviewers for 2016–2017 were Julia Laskin (Purdue University; West Lafayette, IN, USA), Raymond March (Trent University; Peterborough, ON, Canada), Yu Xia (Tsinghua University; Beijing, China), and Joseph Zaia (Boston University; Boston, MA, USA). As always, we thank Julia, Ray, Yu, and Joe for their outstanding efforts and service to JASMS. And we offer our heartfelt appreciation to all of the individuals who dedicated their substantial time and expertise to the journal by serving as reviewers in 2017.

(Left-to-right) Yu Xia and Joe Loo at the JASMS booth at the 2017 ASMS Conference in Indianapolis, IN (photo courtesy of Sue Weintraub)

Ray March

2017 Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Reviewers

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Hassan Abdoul-Carime

Zeper Abliz

Jeffrey Agar

Robert Ahrends

Satoko Akashi

Guenter Allmaier

Eid Alsbou

Kim Alving

I. Jonathan Amster

Christopher Anderton

Per Andren

Peter B. Armentrout

Daniel Armstrong

Athula Attygalle

Daniel Austin

Hanan Awad

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Takashi Baba

Abraham Badu-Tawiah

Dhanashri Bagal

Erin Baker

David Balshaw

Joseph Banoub

Perdita Barran

John Bartmess

Franco Basile

Jenny Beck

Justin Benesch

Thorsten Benter

Vadym Berkout

Marshall Bern

Steve Beu

Mark Bier

Veronica Bierbaum

Stephen Blanksby

Christian Bleiholder

Sebastian Böcker

Brian Bothner

Ben Bowen

Joseph Bozzelli

Martin Breitenlechner

Kathrin Breuker

Jennifer Brodbelt

Robert Brown

David Burinsky

Matthew Bush

Benjamin Bythell

C

J. Larry Campbell

Iain Campuzano

Carolyn J. Cassady

Nadja Cech

Julia Chamot-Rooke

Pierre Chaurand

Bingming Chen

Guodong Chen

Hao Chen

Huanwen Chen

Shu-Hui Chen

Guilong Cheng

Ping Cheng

Allis Chien

Ivan Chu

David Clarke

Henrik Clausen

David Clemmer

Brian Clowers

Richard B. Cole

Isabelle Compagnon

Philip Compton

Styliani Consta

John Constance

R. Graham Cooks

Joshua Coon

Helen Cooper

Catherine Costello

Rainer Cramer

Weidong Cui

Scott Cummins

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Allison Danell

Edwin De Pauw

David Dearden

Heather Desaire

Caroline Dessent

Eric Deutsch

Sergei Dikler

Chuan-Fan Ding

Li Ding

Thanh Do

Eric Dodds

Marek Domin

William Donald

Vladimir M. Doroshenko

Pieter Dorrestein

Don J. Douglas

Norman Dovichi

Klaus Dreisewerd

Xiuxia Du

Philippe Dugourd

Robert C. Dunbar

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Livia Eberlin

Olof Echt

Gary Eiceman

Kim Ekroos

Barney Ellison

Kent Ervin

Kenyon Evans-Nguyen

Claire Eyers

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Daniele Fabris

Jing Fan

Linda Feketeová

Xidong Feng

Catherine C. Fenselau

Facundo Fernandez

Jose Fernandez

Francisco Fernandez-Lima

Alessandra Ferzoco

Oliver Fiehn

Daniel Figeys

John Fletcher

Bryan Fonslow

Kyle Fort

Simona Francese

Lloyd D. Fricker

Travis Fridgen

Andrej Frolov

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Valerie Gabelica

Timothy Garrett

Joseph Gault

Ying Ge

Erin Gemperline

Gordon Getzinger

John Gibson

Josh Gilbert

Sergey Gimelshein

Gianluca Giorgi

Marion Girod

Gary Glish

Michael Glocker

David Go

David Goodlett

Kenneth Greis

William Griffiths

Stefan Grimme

Gary S. Groenewold

Scott Gronert

Jürgen Gross

Liqing Gu

Frank Gunzer

Yinlong Guo

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James Hager

Kristina Håkansson

Ling Han

Xianlin Han

Wei Hang

Luke Hanley

David Harvey

Heiko Hayen

Albert Heck

Ron Heeren

Sven Heiles

Christopher Hendrickson

Robert Hettich

Herbert H. Hill, Jr.

Kenzo Hiraoka

Lucinda Hittle

Scott Hopkins

Alan Hopkinson

Cheng-Chih Hsu

Fong-Fu Hsu

Jeffrey Hudgens

Amanda Hummon

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Demian Ifa

Alexander Ivanov

J

Glen Jackson

Shelley Jackson

Martin Jarrold

Rebecca Jockusch

Murray Johnston

Lisa Jones

Ryan Julian

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Maureen Kane

Steven R. Kass

Sándor Kéki

Hilkka Kenttämaa

George Khairallah

Kshitij Khatri

Kay-Hooi Khoo

David Kilgour

Hugh Kim

Gary Kinsel

Agneta Kiss

Masaki Kita

Elena Kitova

John Klassen

Richard Knochenmuss

Lars Konermann

Andy T Kong

Xianglei Kong

Manfred Konrad

John Koomen

Constantine Kosmidis

Mary Kraft

Oleg Krokhin

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Arthur Laganowsky

Stephen Lammert

Ingela Lanekoff

Carlos Larriba

Barbara S. Larsen

Julia Laskin

Albert Lebedev

Carlito B. Lebrilla

Young Jin Lee

Steven Lehotay

Aneika Leney

Ailin Li

Bin Li

Jie Li

Zhili Li

Lingjun Li

Qiaoli Liang

Zhidan Liang

Gerhard Liebisch

Patrick Limbach

Cheng Lin

Cheng-Huang Lin

Robert Linhardt

Michael Linscheid

Jennifer Lippens

Jianbo Liu

Xiaohua Liu

Xin Liu

Jason Locasale

Joseph A. Loo

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Bin Ma

Claudia Maier

Graziella Malandrino

Nicholas Manicke

Raymond March

Milica Tešić Mark

David Marshall

Michael Marty

Elaine Marzluff

Christophe Masselon

Ewy Mathé

Rommel Mathias

Jody May

Leland Mayne

Andrew McAnoy

Liam McDonnell

Charles McEwen

John McLean

Scott A. McLuckey

Yehia Mechref

Jesse Meyer

Robert Mistrik

Mehdi Moini

Nina Morgner

Eugene Moskovets

David Muddiman

Edson Muller

Christopher Mulligan

Robert C. Murphy

Kermit Murray

Brian Musselman

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Werner Nau

Evan Neidholdt

Peter Nemes

Susanne Neupert

Terry Nguyen-Khuong

Chi-Kung Ni

Zongxiu Nie

Steen Nielsen

Eugene Nikolaev

Trent Northen

Leonard Nyadong

O

Peter O'Connor

Rachel Ogorzalek Loo

Han Bin Oh

Richard A. J. O'Hair

Neil Oldham

Jos Oomens

Chuanzi OuYang

Zheng Ouyang

P

Kevin Pagel

Bela Paizs

Lewis Pannell

Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic

Samuel Payne

Eladia Maria Pena-Mendez

Junmin Peng

Maria Person

Brett Phinney

Veronica Pinnick

Sharon Pitteri

Berwyck Poad

Nicola Pohl

Nicolas Polfer

Michael Poltash

Tiffany Porta

John C. Poutsma

James Prell

Philip Price

Stephen Price

Tara Pukalaå

Randall Purves

Jaroslaw Puton

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Jun Qu

Royston Quintyn

R

Joshua Rabinowitz

Steven Ray

Gavin Reid

James Reilly

Peter Reilly

Jianhua Ren

Michelle Reyzer

Thomas Rizzo

Blaine Roberts

Mary T. Rodgers

Jana Roithova

Leonard Rorrer

Stanislav Rubakhin

Brandon Ruotolo

David Russell

Victor Ryzhov

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Jean-Yves Salpin

Todd Sandrin

Mathias Schaefer

Kevin Schey

Wolfgang Schrader

David Schriemer

Kevin Schug

Brian Searle

Michal Sharon

Joshua Sharp

Jacob Shelley

Fengjian Shi

Stone Shi

Jentaie Shiea

Alexandre Shvartsburg

Chi Kit Siu

K. W. Michael Siu

Gary Siuzdak

Jeffrey Smith

Frank Sobott

Touradj Solouki

Fengrui Song

O. David Sparkman

Jeffrey Spraggins

Ragampeta Srinivas

Hanno Steen

Mark Sullards

Liangliang Sun

Ales Svatos

Kristian Swearingen

Jonathan Sweedler

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Mahmoud Tabrizchi

Mitsuo Takayama

Haixu Tang

Keqi Tang

Stephen Taylor

Gerhard Thallinger

Morten Thaysen-Andersen

Pierre Thibault

Hua Tian

Michisato Toyoda

Sarah Trimpin

Yury Tsybin

Frantisek Tureček

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Beatrix Ueberheide

Charlotte Uetrecht

Arne Ulbrich

Candice Ulmer

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Richard Vachet

Stephen Valentine

Gary Van Berkel

Michael Van Stipdonk

Karoly Vekey

Harika Vemula

Andre Venter

Guido Verbeck

Peter Verhaert

Akos Vertes

Nelson Vinueza

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Amy Walker

Lai-Sheng Wang

Mingda Wang

Peng George Wang

Yinsheng Wang

Yi-Sheng Wang

Yuzhuo Wang

Zhe-Chen Wang

Michael Washburn

Aaron Wecksler

Christian Wegener

Xian-Yong Wei

David Weis

Chad Weisbrod

Mitch Wells

Dingyi Wen

Chrys Wesdemiotis

Julian Whitelegge

Charles Wilkins

Matthias Wilm

Derek Wilson

Walter Wissdorf

Michael Woldegebriel

Jean-Claude Wolff

Troy Wood

Ranran Wu

Si Wu

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Yu Xia

Libin Xu

Wei Xu

Y

Manuel Yanez

Yue-Heng Yang

Zhibo Yang

Hui Ye

Min Ye

Mingliang Ye

Alfred L. Yergey

Joanne Yew

Nicolas Young

Qing Yu

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Joseph Zaia

Richard Zare

Arash Zarrine-afsar

Renato Zenobi

Jialing Zhang

Qibin Zhang

Zhe Zhang

Wendy Zhong

Mowei Zhou

Zhikai Zhu