Dear Reviewer: Notes of appreciation from authors to peer reviewers

#DearReviewer…
Compiled by Editage Insights for Peer Review Week 2016
Notes of appreciation
from authors to
peer reviewers

I wish I could say I'd submitted
something for which I'd received peer
review. Hope to this year! Thanks in
advance to all those who volunteer
their time to be peer reviewers!
- Bonita Steele -
#DearReviewer
Thank you for your time
- Aarushi Gupta -
Owner: Shri Aarushi; Director: Pulse Care
Peer reviewers spend a lot of time analyzing
the work of intellectuals, professionals, and
other high-esteemed writers. This is because
they provide insights into their work to
indicate the positives and the negatives.
Writers could be opinionated or averse to
criticism. Peer reviewers, by not thinking
about the identity of either party, give
unbiased views about the text as they follow
a strict code to comment on manuscripts. I
really appreciate the work of peer
reviewers for this reason. Hats off to them!
Hats off to you!
I really thank reviewers and
experts. With limited data, they
make me stand tall and look
further for the science in my
field! This aids my personal
advancement!
- Zhang Weiqiang -
You help me develop further

Where do I begin? probably there is
no word to describe a reviewer.
This might be unorthodox, but in
my opinion, most of the reviewers
are like BATMAN. You don't know
who they are but they make a big
change in the academic world. To
all of you - thank you for spending
your personal time to make the
world a better place.
#my real superhero
- Ebrahim Mahmoudi –
Department of Chemical and Process Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment,
Universit Kebangsaan Malaysia
You are #myrealsuperhero
In the process of paper
publication, peer reviewers are
area experts and play an
important role in order to
represent the content in a well
mannered way. Sometimes they
help to author to identify
overlooked ideas which can be
incorporated in the text to make
it more easily accessible and re-
presentable. Reviewers help
authors revise text by way of
corrections and suggestions,
which make the content strong
and precise.
You are an expert!
- Shefali Agarwal –
#DearReviewer

I would like to thank the lovely reviewer
who has sent me a 4 page report,
comments, questions, and
recommendations when rejecting my
manuscript. I appreciate the valuable time
s/he spent while assessing my work. I am
grateful for the work they do; nevertheless,
I am terrified of them as I am coming to
the end of my PhD and I have yet to
publish my work thanks to a very strict
and harsh assessment..... please be more
kind when you next assess my manuscript
please!
Thank you for the 4-page report
- Dastan Khalid -
Department of Physics, College of Education,
Old Campus, University of Sulaiman, Iraq
You made me a better
medical writer
As a published author and peer reviewer
myself, I do appreciate the work of peer
reviewers in reaching a decision regarding
a manuscript, even if it recommends
rejection of the manuscript. Thank you,
reviewers, for reviewing my manuscripts
and helping me become a better medical
writer.
- Farooq Rathore -
#DearReviewer

Where would science be without you?
I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the peer-reviewers for
their hard work. I have done some peer reviews myself and it is always a
great challenge to undertake. It implies giving time away that can reduce
your productivity; nevertheless, it is an essential activity for science. You
don't get recognition and you don't get paid, and it seems like it is pretty
much a bad deal for the reviewer! Nevertheless, where would science be
without it? It is the commitment from the reviewers that keep science
going! I really want to thank all peer reviewers for their hard and
unconditional work! We may get frustrated when we get the reviews, but I
doubt that anyone can say that the reviews have not contributed to make
their research better... well, Einstein did it, and many years later he
regretted it and apologized for it, since he recognized that the peer review
he despised was correct. Thanks to all the peer reviewers!!!
- Christian M. Appendini –
Institute of Engineering of UNAM in Sisal, Yucatan, Mexico
#DearReviewer

Perhaps the thoughts of rejected manuscripts come
quickly to mind when peer reviewers are
mentioned; but that's not all they do. Peer
reviewing is about ensuring/adding value. As skilled
gate-keepers, peer reviewers hold researchers
accountable to high ideals; bringing their findings to
detailed scrutiny. This they do without much
reward, ensuring the public is offered what is
reliable and valid. There is no doubt a need to
improve the peer reviewing process and perhaps,
relax the gate keeping process. However, there are
gains we have achieved through this process. These
we can choose to celebrate.
- Kenneth Yakubu -
Consultant Family Physician, Jos University
Teaching Hospital, and Lecturer, Department of
Family Medicine , University of
Jos, Nigeria
You add value!
I thank each every reviewers
who reviewed my paper. I hope
scientific system will be more
and more structured and
everyone's scientific output get
better and better!
- Zhang Weiqiang -
I thank every reviewer
I hold high respect for
reviewer as well as peer
review. Hope we can keep
improving with their
notice.
- Anonymous author -
I respect you
#DearReviewer

I respect you
I respect peer-reviewers and
thank their indispensable
collaboration in the
advancement of good science
writing.
- Helena Filipe -
You sacrificed your time
for me
I appreciate the sacrifices you
make to give authors time-
consuming and honest
feedback.
We love you
Dear reviewers, thank you for
being selfless and committed
enough to spend time helping to
verify the public research record.
We love you!"
- Jon Tennant –
Imperial College London
The peer reviewer’s comment
encouraged me and gave me a
deep insight. Thank you!
You encouraged me
#DearReviewer

Yours is a priceless job
Peer reviewing is a paid less and priceless job.
I am thankful to reviewers for spending their
valuable time and resources for reviewing
research papers. I am grateful to them for up
keeping the standards of science. Though we
are disappointed at times, we come back with
better outcomes always. The reviewers truly
deserve acknowledgement and gratitude from
the scientific community.
- Dr KBRS Visarada –
ICAR, Indian Institute of Millets Research,
Hyderabad, India
A tough job needs great people to
make a great job! Thank you very
much indeed!
- Sandra Bastos -
Tanit Ganz Sanchez, Instituto Ganz
Sanchez de Otorrinolaringologia,
São Paulo, Brazil
You are great!
I acknowledge and appreciate your
work as a reviewer. I can mention
three or four reviewers who
reviewed my papers!
- Mrs. Chand.C.G.Devadason -
Senior Lecturer in Zoology,
Eastern University, Sri Lanka
I acknowledge your work
#DearReviewer

Your perspectives help!
Everyone has their own little
ways of life, sometimes right,
sometimes wrong. I thank you
all for taking time off and
reviewing all of my views.
Because sometimes, a dual
perspective in life helps like
nothing else
#DearReviewer

Really, the job you do is of
great importance since it is the
base to make a quality
journals, so all writers and
researchers are grateful to you.
Thank you for you cooperation.
Your job is very important
- Dr. Carlos Eróstegu –
#DearReviewer

Thank you very much for putting my priorities before yours or your
family’s! Why do you even engage in practice that is unpaid and in
many instances not properly recognised towards your promotion or
tenure? Where is your enthusiasm coming from? What feeds your
motivation? How do you find time in your busy academic research life
to devote it to reviewing my manuscript?
- Dr Elena Danilova –
Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Scholarly Communication and Repository Services, Learning & Research
Services, The University of Queensland Library, Australia
Where is your enthusiasm coming from?
Peer review has its flaws and limitations, however it truly is in the heart of
scholarly communication and peer-reviewers are the vessels delivering vital supply
for research to live and prosper! Acknowledging your invaluable contribution to the
quality of research, I – the writer, promise be attentive to detail in my
manuscripts, never cross ethical boundaries and respond positively to your
comments and suggestions!
#DearReviewer

You helped me during my PhD
- Tahir Mahmood -
PhD, Animal Nutrition
I believe the reviewers do a commendable but thankless job. I have a personal
experience of my own research papers. As these research papers were part of
my PhD research, the critical evaluation by reviewers helped a great deal to
improve my PhD thesis ultimately. Thus, I really appreciate the role and
impact reviewers have on published research.
#DearReviewer

I appreciate peer reviews, they bring pain, training and joy. It's all a mixture of
what life truly is. This training is only possible because of the efforts of some
people. We just say 'reviewers', yet these are individuals with life responsibilities
and demands, who go out of their way to make publishing worthwhile. And
what's more, they are mostly not rewarded for this noble cause!
- Olubusola Johnson -
Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
You bring pain, training, and joy!
I just want to say thank you to all peer reviewers out there...even though
authors do not always agree with you! And yes, we know that you, too, are
individuals with your own opinions! The academic publishing world needs you
more than ever before! Thank you!
#DearReviewer

When I first submitted to Nuclear Engineering and
Technology, the reviewer comments were totally
beyond my expectations. They were so detail, from
word spelling to the exact meaning of some technical
terms, paper title, sentence structure and even the
important observation as well as supporting
material, reviewers gave very object and professional
comments. Revision not only make the paper quality
improved, but also benefited my writing skill in the
future. I sincerely thank reviewers. How carefully
they read our paper is probably more than myself. I
reply their comments in detail and learn from it. I
think I will keep improving my research and
- Guo Haibing –
You read my paper more carefully than I ever did! Thank you for the silent
efforts
I thank all reviewers foe their
silent efforts. Please consider
our feelings too. Your
comments can be direct, but
not attacking.
I wish you all the best
I think that to be a peer
reviewer it`s a great honor
and they really worth to be
congratulated. I highly
appreciate the work they do
and wish to them all the best.
- Vladyslav Kravchuk -
Institute of Molecular Biology and
Genetics, NAS of Ukraine
writing skill to contribute to science
progress. This may be the best return for
them.
#DearReviewer

Endless thanks to you
- CHUCK CHUAN, NG -
Lecturer and Head of Programme, School of Green
Science and Engineering, Greencity International
College (KAGC), Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
I do sincerely appreciate the constructive
comments given by all of the scientific
article journal reviewers for their invaluable
patience, ideas sharing, cooperative
facilitation, continuous support and
guidance throughout my entire journey of
academic writing. Once again, a big shout
out and endless thanks to all the unbiased,
noble and diligent work of reviewers.
A big applause to you
- Syaliza Omar, RPh, PhD -
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, University Malaysia
Kelantan, Malaysia
Thank you for your endless support and effort to the
peer review process. It is a great appreciation to
knowing that the research works are being
recognized. Your instructive comments make a
crucial difference in the career of researcher.
#DearReviewer

I realize your remarks have been made to
help me improve this study. Thank you
for taking your time to help me doing
this with despite your busy timetable. The
remarks and corrections you made are in
the sense to make this study more clear
and more precise for the future readers
that may not like to waste their time. I
will work to improve this writing and
make the most comprehensible. Real
thanks for the job you do for science to
go ahead.
- Komla S AMOUZOU –
Universite de Lome, Togo
God bless you
I completely agree that the academic
publishing system wouldn’t even exist
without our dear reviewers. The
comments that they give are only for
the betterment of the manuscripts and
I personally feel that they play a great
role in raising the standard of the
submitted manuscript. I really thank
them for all their efforts, patience and
the time they spend to read our
manuscripts. Their comments are
undoubtedly valuable.
Best wishes to all the reviewers!
Your comments are valuable
- Sonali Mohapatra –
#DearReviewer

Thank every reviewer's affirmation
and pointing out problem to authors'
work. Every manuscript published by
us requires your efforts and
contribution. In fact, I am also a
reviewer for many journals. I know
the importance of review work. You
have to read one paper several times,
and spend one to two weeks time to
understand a paper thoroughly, then
you are qualified to review a paper
and arrive conclusion...
I know the importance of
your work
- Yao Wanxia -
#DearReviewer

- Dr. Sudhir Kumar –
Peer Reviewers are doing a
wonderful and thankless
academic jobs. Personally I wish
to use this medium to appreciate
them and their contributions to
academic development
You are doing a wonderful
job
#DearReviewer

Thank you for your
comments
Thank all the reviewer comments.
If comments are hurting, it means
reviewer read your paper
carefully. I don't like reviewer who
only says "no novelty" and reject
paper.
#DearReviewer

Honestly, the moment I receive the
reviewer's reports I think che palle!,
and I repeat this for the whole day,
possibly with the company of my co-
authors. Then, after a while, I can
recognize that some remarks are
useful... let's say I'd offer a beer to a few
reviewers ;-)” [“che palle” is some slang
meaning “it sucks”]
- Anonymous author –
I’d offer you a beer!
I agree that peer reviewing is a thankless job.
If not for them, we authors who are most of
the time thinking that we know everything
and a third party reader will surely
understand our perspective, we would be lost
totally. Though they are painful to tolerate,
nevertheless a carbon needs to be polished to
shine.....I thank all those who do this job, for
they are the most needed to keep us
grounded and tell us there is no perfection in
science...It is just attempts to gain
perfection.. Kudos to the charisma that we
love to hate so much....
Kudos to you!
- Dr Shrikanth Muralidharan –
Senior lecturer, MA Rangoonwala College of
Dental Sciences and Research Center India
#DearReviewer

Science needs you
In life people do the same thing for different
reasons. I do not think a scientist would be angry
when he receives some good advices to correct
some mistakes or for any reason to improve a
manuscript if its reason was to bring a pure
knowledge. May be a philosopher or a religious
person does not need a peer reviewer, but we
need you in science to keep helping us protect
our interest in science.
- Enock Balthazar –
Medical school, University of Buenos Aires
#DearReviewer

Reviewers really deserve appreciation for
their job. Quality reviewing without any
payment is sometimes tedious but a great
service to science and ultimately to
humanity. Although there is no reward in
the form of money, but there is reward
for the future generations in the form of
quality knowledge and products.
- Dr. Muhammad Shahid –
Assistant Professor, Department of
Bioinformatics & Biotechnology, G.C.
University, Faisalabad
You deserve appreciation
Many thanks for giving me more
comments in my manuscripts. Because of
your suggestions, most of my manuscripts
could be accepted by the journal I
submitted them to last year. I really
appreciate you for your help. In the past,
from peer reviewers, I really had the
good opportunity to learn how to write a
correct and good manuscript in English,
and how to express the abstract and
conclusion sections that are most hard to
write. I really learn more information
from you.
You taught me manuscript writing
- Yang, Sheng-Zehn –
Teacher, Department of Forestry, National
Pingtung University of Science and
Technology, Taiwan
#DearReviewer

You are skilled gatekeepers
Perhaps the thoughts of rejected manuscripts come quickly to
mind when peer reviewers are mentioned; but that's not all they
do. Peer reviewing is about ensuring/adding value. As skilled
gate-keepers, peer reviewers hold researchers accountable to high
ideals; bringing their findings to detailed scrutiny. This they do
without much reward, ensuring the public is offered what is
reliable and valid. There is no doubt a need to improve the peer
reviewing process and perhaps, relax the gate keeping process.
However, there are gains we have achieved through this process.
These we can choose to celebrate.
- Kenneth Yakubu -
Consultant Family Physician, Jos University
Teaching Hospital
Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine,
University of Jos, Nigeria
#DearReviewer

Without you the system is incomplete
Peer reviewers play a great role in academic writing. Without them this
system is incomplete. I really appreciate all of them to participate in
academic writing and publishing system. And thanks to all reviewers for
helping in the advancement to the related fields.
- Sikander Shirazi –
Peer review is an important part of manuscript acceptance which gives
more worthiness to manuscripts. This will not be possible without untiring
efforts of reviewers. It is true that some reviewers' comments might be
frustrating and disappointing but the comments, at the end of the day,
improve the quality of the manuscript and allow authors to learn more
about academic writing. Reviewers efforts are hereby appreciated
immensely.
- Mukadas O. Akindele –
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Physiotherapist, Department of
Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Bayero University, Nigeria
Your efforts are appreciated immensely
#DearReviewer

Thank you for your efforts
I often tend to make complaint to
peer reviewers, but I thank them
for their big effort. It is admirable
to know that academic publishing
system is kept by such volunteer
spirit. Your continuous support
would be highly appreciated.
#DearReviewer

You are like a good friend
- Omar Pandoli -
Pontificia Universidade Católica; Departamento de
Química, Rio de Janeiro
"I really thank all my reviewers for a good job offered
to me all the time I argued them to improve my
scientific work. A good reviewer is a good friend able
to listen and to read your scientific work. If he is a
good leader , he will be interested to suggest how to
follow a way to improve your work and found out
new interesting results. Always, we should keep in
mind that every work never is totally completed.
Every new results can open new curiosities and new
questions. A good friend/review understand your
progress and accept new doubts to support your
research."
#DearReviewer

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