Rigorous peer-review is the corner-stone of high-quality academic publishing. The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who contributed their knowledge and expertise to the journal’s editorial process over the past 12 months. In 2018, a total of 43 papers were published in the journal, with a median time to first decision of 17 days and a median time to publication of 36 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their cooperation and dedication in 2018:
| Amodio, Nicola | Napierala, Marek |
| Ariel, Federico | Natarajan, Rama |
| Atianand, Maninjay | Nawaz, Muhammad |
| Bach, Duc-Hiep | Nazarenko, Irina |
| Bacolla, Albino | Newbury, Sarah Faith |
| Barteková, Monika | Ottaviani, Silvia |
| Beemon, Karen | Palancade, Benoît |
| Berindan-Neagoe, Ioana | Palmieri, Ferdinando |
| Bidarimath, Mallikarjun | Panda, Amaresh |
| Bloom, David | Papageorgis, Panagiotis |
| Boroviak, Katharina | Parashar, Deepak |
| Bortoluzzi, Stefania | Pfeffer, Sébastien |
| Bramham, Clive R. | Picardi, Ernesto |
| Calin, George A. | Pichler, Martin |
| Chakrabarti, Kausik | Pillai, Ramesh |
| Chim, James | Pulvirenti, Alfredo |
| Cochrane, Dawn R. | Puthanveettil, Sathya |
| Costa, Valerio | Raimondi, Lavinia |
| Crispim, Daisy | Reidys, Christian M. |
| Cullen, Bryan R. | Renne, Rolf |
| Cusanelli, Emilio | Reyes, José C. |
| Czaplinski, Kevin | Rigoutsos, Isidore |
| Da Costa Martins, Paula A. | Riley, Kasandra J. |
| Dakhlallah, Duaa | Rossetto, Cyprian C. |
| De Bortoli, Michele | Rougeulle, Claire |
| De Gonzalo-Calvo, David | Rupaimoole, Rajesha |
| Delalle, Ivana | Salta, Evgenia |
| Delihas, Nicholas | Sankaranarayanan, Nehru Viji |
| Dhamija, Sonam | Santulli, Gaetano |
| Diermeier, Sarah | Schmittgen, Thomas |
| Divoux, Adeline | Sempere, Lorenzo F. |
| Dziembowski, Andrzej | Sgrignani, Jacopo |
| Earls, Laurie | Shkumatava, Alena |
| El-Hage, Nazira | Sinclair, John |
| El-Osta, Assam | Sinnett, Daniel |
| Enquobahrie, Daniel A. | Slaby, Ondrej |
| Esguerra, Jonathan | Slotkin, Keith |
| Fabris, Linda | Smalheiser, Neil R. |
| Farnebo, Marianne | Smith, Craig A. |
| Ferracin, Manuela | Somarowthu, Srinivas |
| Fiszer, Agnieszka | Sood, Anil |
| Fuentes-Mattei, Enrique | Srikumar, Shabarinath |
| Fujita, Yu | Stadler, H. Scott |
| Gaetano, Carlo | Stirling, Peter |
| Gan, Boyi | Szymański, Maciej Iej |
| Giroud, Maude | Tattikota, Sudhir Gopal |
| Goodall, Gregory J. | Timmons, Lisa |
| Gorodkin, Jan | Tollervey, David |
| Gregory, Brian | Tonus Marinho, Marco Antonio |
| Gromak, Natalia | Tripp, Ralph |
| Gutschner, Tony | Tye, Coralee |
| Gyöngyösi, Mariann | Uchida, Shizuka |
| Han, Kook | Ulitsky, Igor |
| Hancock, Meaghan | Umansky, Samuil |
| Hook, Lauren M. | Vandesompele, Jo |
| Huang, Lei | Ventriglia, Giuliana |
| Hubé, Florent | Verjovski-Almeida, Sergio |
| Jackson, Michael | Vladimirov, Vladimir I. |
| Jain, Vaibhav | Wahlestedt, Claes |
| Johnson, Rory | Wander, Pandora L. |
| Jurak, Igor | Wang, Hsiuying |
| Kapranov, Philipp | Watanabe, Maria |
| Khalil, Ahmad | Weidhaas, Joanne |
| Kim, Il-man | Weinberg, Zasha |
| Kincaid, Rodney | Wilson, Joyce |
| Köhn, Marcel | Wilusz, Jeff |
| Leclerc, Fabrice | Wittmann, Jürgen |
| Li, Pei Feng | Yamamura, Soichiro |
| Lu, Dongdong | Yin, Congcong |
| Luna Varo, Rosa María | You, Xiaona |
| Magnus, Marcin | Yurochko, Andrew |
| Mandal, Subhrangsu | Zhang, Shuxing |
| Medina, Pedro | Zhang, Wenbing |
| Meister, Gunter | Zhang, Wencai |
| Miller, W. Allen | Zhu, Qian-Hao |
| Montgomery, Taiowa A. | Zhu, Xudong |
| Moran, Yehu | Ziegelbauer, Joseph |
| Morris, Kevin | Zielenkiewicz, Piotr |
| Moss, Walter |