From the Editors’ Desk: HSR’s outstanding reviewers

Health Services Research (HSR) is one of the most highly cited health services journals and a major destination for publishing research in our field. The effort of our reviewers is a major reason for HSR’s excellence.

During the past two years, HSR has relied on 961 reviewers to evaluate original submissions. In many cases, these same reviewers have contributed to evaluating revisions that have resulted from their original reviews. We are grateful for the contributions that each of our reviewers has made to improve the papers they read and hope that authors recognize these reviewers’ feedback as a gift that fuels improvement within our community.

Based on a discussion within our editorial team, we have decided to apply specific criteria to identify those reviewers who have been exceptional in the volume and quality of their reviews for HSR during the past two years. The individuals listed below were rated in the top 5% of reviewers in this time period. We congratulate them for being selected as “Outstanding Reviewers for Health Services Research in 2019.” Going forward, we expect to honor a new cohort of reviewers in a similar fashion on an annual basis.

Margarita Alegria

Laurence Baker

Michael Barnett

Michel Boudreaux

Amanda Brewster

M. Kate Bundorf

Michael Chernew

Sandra Decker

Kelly Devers

Christopher Forrest

Floyd Fowler

Mark Friedberg

Melissa Garrido

Lillian Gelberg

Teresa Gibson

Marsha Gold

Carole Roan Gresenz

J. Lee Hargraves

Laura Hatfield

Arthur Hong

Marco Huesch

Orna Intrator

Laura Keohane

R. Tamara Konetzka

Richard Kronick

Anthony LoSasso

Matthew Maciejewski

Leo Morales

Karoline Mortensen

Dana Mukamel

Amol Navathe

Daniel Polsky

Gregory Pope

Shelby Reed

Zirui Song

Joanne Spetz

David Stevenson

Michael Stoto

Denise Tyler

Marko Vujicic

Pete Welch

Christopher Whaley

Brad Wright

Carolyn Zhu

Stephen Zuckerman