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.
In 2021, HSR relied on a panel of nearly 500 reviewers to evaluate original submissions. In many cases, these same reviewers contributed to evaluating revisions that resulted from their original reviews.
Based on a discussion within our editorial team, we decided to apply specific criteria to identify those reviewers who have been exceptional in the volume and quality of their reviews for HSR in the past year. The individuals listed below (alphabetically by last name) were rated within the top 5% of reviewers in this time period. We congratulate them for being selected as “Outstanding Reviewers for Health Services Research in 2021.” Going forward, we will continue to honor our top reviewers in a similar fashion on an annual basis.
We are grateful for the contributions that all our reviewers make to improve the manuscripts we receive. Answering our call for assistance in this way is a gift that fuels improvement within our community. Beginning this year, we will be asking one more thing of scholars to review a manuscript. We will be drawing their attention to HSR's new author instructions (hsr.org/authors) and specifically calling out the advice for reporting on race and ethnicity. 1 , 2 We will be asking our reviewers to help us identify when and where manuscripts require editing to follow this advice. This will help us advance our goals of addressing sources of structural racism at HSR and in our field by striving for equitable study designs and dissemination. 3
OUTSTANDING REVIEWERS FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH IN 2021
Michel Boudreaux
Michael Chernew
Megan Cole
Leslie Curry
Partha Deb
Yevgeniy Feyman
Laura Hatfield
Carrie Henning‐Smith
Bruce Kinosian
Matthew Maciejewski
Ateev Mehrotra
Vincent Mor
Ann O'Malley
Craig Pollack
Ninez Ponce
Eric Roberts
Paul Shafer
Sara Singer
Joanne Spetz
Megan Vanneman
Peter Veazie
Rishi Wadhera
Christopher M. Whaley
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank Carolyn deCourt for collecting and organizing the data on HSR reviewers.
Disclaimer.
The contents of this article do not represent the views of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the US government, Boston University, Harvard University, or Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute.
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