EDITORIAL
Every year I write a brief statement of thanks for the hundreds to thousands of reviewers that make peer review possible at mSystems. Peer reviewing is a complex and often thankless task. The editors at mSystems are all specialists in their fields, but they are also all peer reviewers and authors. Having an author, reviewer, and editor all in the same brain can often create cognitive dissonance, as I have mentioned previously (https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00797-19). However, all of us are committed to providing robust assessment, through constructive feedback, for every paper that we send out for peer review. Over the last 3 years, it has become increasingly hard to find reviewers willing to perform peer review. While I have no hard data as to why this trend is occurring, like most things, I blame it on the pandemic. However, there has also been a concomitant maturing of many different microbiome-focused journals, which has taxed a relatively small group of researchers, who are often asked to review many different manuscripts simultaneously. I routinely receive 10 to 15 peer-review requests per week. Obviously, no one has the time to assess anything rigorously with that kind of workload, so I end up saying “no”—a lot! How do I choose which ones I say yes to? Well, in the last 2 to 3 years I have been focusing on performing peer review only for society journals. The American Society for Microbiology, Applied Microbiology International, International Society for Microbial Ecology, and many others provide substantial resources to their membership that are in part supported by revenues from the journals. Therefore, by supporting the journals as an editor, reviewer, or an author, you are generating revenue that provides support for your scientific community, and maybe even yourself. What could be better? Thank you to all the reviewers who made peer review at mSystems such a success this last year, and thank you for supporting ASM and your community.
Ruth Chingcuangco Abanador
Ghulam Abbas
Wafaa Abd El-Ghany
Mahmoud M. Abdelsattar
Luis A. Actis
Zaky Adam
Beth M. Adamowicz
Oehmen Adrian
Innocent Afeke
Livnat Afriat-Jurnou
Herve Agaisse
Ashwani Aggarwal
Surya D. Aggarwal
Stephen Dela Ahator
Din Ahmad Ud
Tae-Hyuk Ahn
Lianzhong Ai
Sulaiman M. Alajel
M. Tauqeer Alam
Begum Alaybeyoglu
Virginia Helena Albarracín
Muhammad Ali
Celeste Allaband
Jonathan Allen
Richard C. Allen
Charlotte J. Alster
Hassan M. Al-Tameemi
Lauren Victoria Alteio
Emrah Altindis
John Alverdy
Dani Amor
Shivanthi Anandan
Mark T. Anderson
Matthew Zack Anderson
Michael Anderson
Angel Andrade Torres
Julien Andreani
Cristina Andrés-Barrao
Haike Antelmann
Vijay C. Antharam
Muzaffer Arikan
Jean Armengaud
Courtney R. Armour
Ravi P. Arya
Adrien Assie
Jennifer M. Auchtung
Lucas Auer
Sandrine Auger
Frank O. Aylward
Derya Aytan-Aktug
Sheyda Azimi
Reha O. Azizoglu
Jin-Woo Bae
Harsh Bais
Jonathon L. Baker
Scott E. Baker
Vimal Balasubramanian
Areen Banerjee
Kalins Bannerjee
Matthieu Barbier
Roman Alfredo Barco
Lars Barquist
Franco Basile
Ashley C. Bateman
Buzz Baum
Andreas J. Bäumler
Clifford J. Beall
Pascale B. Beauregard
Ashley E. Beck
Christine Beemelmanns
Terrence Bell
Daniel Bellieny-Rabelo
Michael Benisrael
Mariana Benitez
Trude Bennett
Fabienne Benz
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Anna Bernasconi
Anthony Bertagnolli
Martin Beukema
Mohini Bhattacharya
Derek Martens Bickhart
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Nidhan K. Biswas
Ryan Andrew Blaustein
Ran Blekhman
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Alte Bones
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Xiaowen Feng
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En Huang
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