Each one of our outstanding peer reviewers has been carefully selected by our editorial team, and the list includes active researchers who have made significant contributions to peer review and have gone above and beyond in their actions. In recognition of the varied contributions of our reviewer community, our Outstanding Reviewers from 2024 have been chosen based on several different measures, including the number, timeliness, and quality of the reports completed during 2024. We also highlight reviewers who have provided exceptionally thorough and detailed reports, as well as reviewers who have made additional efforts to aid authors in improving their manuscripts.
We would also like to direct a special thanks to the members of the RSC Advances Reviewer Panel for their hard work and dedication, and the valuable contribution they have made to the journal. The Reviewer Panel is a key part of our commitment to deliver rigorous and fair peer review and ensures that manuscripts are handled by experts throughout the peer review process. We are proud to work with these individuals and recognise their crucial role for the journal.
RSC Advances strives to represent the diversity of the chemistry community, and we would like our reviewer community to reflect that. We are always looking to improve the diversity of our reviewer community in all its forms, and welcome applications for new reviewers through the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Become a Reviewer (https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/author-and-reviewer-hub/reviewer-information/how-to-become-a-reviewer/) page.
In 2024 we introduced co-review to RSC Advances. Co-review enables early-career researchers to develop their skills in peer review through collaboration with an experienced colleague. It gives these researchers a chance to get reviewing experience, and to be recognised for their contributions. For more information on co-review, read our editorial: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/ra/d4ra90099e
“Peer review lies at the heart of academic publishing. As a society journal we very much value the time, effort and expertise that our reviewers expend on our behalf. Excellent peer review ensures the academic quality of RSC Advances and so we extend our thanks to all those who have reviewed in the past year, and our special thanks to the group of excellent peer reviewers who have extended themselves even further on our behalf” – Russell J. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, RSC Advances
“Peer review is a vital aspect of ensuring the quality and originality of the research published in RSC Advances. Over the last year we are pleased to have launched co-review, which gives earlier career researchers the opportunity to gain experience and credit for taking part in the peer review process. Combined with transparent peer review, this will add to the quality of our peer review process as well as the transparency. We thank all the reviewers that continue to support RSC Advances and very much appreciate their contributions” – Karen Faulds, Editor-in-Chief, RSC Advances
RSC Advances 2024 Outstanding Reviewers:
Dr Anindyasundar Adak
University of Birmingham
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5955-4281
Dr Akbar Ali
Government College University Faisalabad
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2914-0934
Dr Seemesh Bhaskar
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2714-3776
Dr Henrique de Castro Silva Jr
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1453-7274
Dr Yuan Fang
University of Virginia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1987-0885
Professor Alessio Gabbani
University of Pisa
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4078-0254
Professor Lihua Gan
Tongji University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3652-8822
Dr Cemil Koyunoğlu
Yalova University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6309-1569
Dr Yixiong Lin
University of Utah
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5769-5315
Dr Xin Lv
Zhejiang Normal University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5431-4529
Dr Luís Pinto da Silva
University of Porto
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5647-8455
Dr R. Rani
Jain University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6116-1495
Dr Rüdiger Seidel
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3438-4666
Dr Fateh Singh Gill
Graphic Era University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2726-6808
Dr Joonhyuk Suh
University of Georgia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3838-5861
Dr Zepei Tang
Montclair State University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9504-5812
Dr Kien Vu
Marian University, Indiana
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1895-2224
Dr Masanori Yamamoto
Institute of Science Tokyo
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8473-7015
RSC Advances Reviewer Panel 2024 Outstanding Reviewers:
Dr Carlos Aiube
University of Brasília
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2614-4363
Dr Elias Akoury
Lebanese American University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5202-8935
Dr Faiz Ali
University of Malakand
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4984-164X
Professor Loai Aljerf
Damascus University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1132-9659
Dr Debmalya Bhunia
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8649-0466
Dr Alien Blanco Fores
Technological of Superior Studies of Tianguistenco
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4035-0550
Dr Olga Eremina
University of Southern California
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2776-4743
Dr Serap Evran
Ege University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6676-4888
Dr S. Girish Kumar
RV College of Engineering
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9132-1202
Dr Darrick Heyd
Toronto Metropolitan University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8195-4278
Dr Haradhan Kolya
Jeonbuk National University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3062-2321
Dr Feng Li
The University of Sydney
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4448-074X
Dr Yu Li
North China Electric Power University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1430-7989
Dr Ekkehard Lindner
University of Tübingen
Dr Tharique Nalakath
MilliporeSigma Milwaukee
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2245-5420
Dr Abhispa Sahu
SiOxMed LLC
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3223-7577
Dr Kapil Upadhyaya
Oregon Health & Science University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9083-7784
Dr Fereshteh Vajhadin
University of Calgary
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2361-8981
Dr Maria Vesna Nikolic
University of Belgrade Institute for Multidisciplinary Research
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5035-0170
Dr Yan-Ping Zhu
Yantai University
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1666-1850
We would also like to thank the RSC Advances Editorial Board and Associate Editors, and the chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.
We continue to work on improving the diversity of our reviewer pool to reflect the diversity of the communities that we serve.
Russell J. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Karen Faulds, Editor-in-Chief, University of Strathclyde, UK
Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2025 |