Constructive, critical peer-review is an essential part of the “information creation process” that has evolved in our society. Despite the rapid evolution and prominence of social media, journals remain an essential component of the information dissemination infrastructure because, unlike social media and professional meetings, the information contained therein is or ought to be subject to the rigors of peer review. Unfortunately, the peer-review process does not always operate as well as it should. Bohannon,
1 for example, submitted an intentionally flawed manuscript involving cancer to 304 journals as part of an experiment to test the peer-review process. This paper was accepted by 157 of the journals. Godlee et al.
2 submitted a paper with 8 deliberate errors (in study design, analysis, and interpretation) to reviewers of the
British Medical Journal. Among the 221 respondents, the average number of mistakes detected was 2, and some reviewers found no mistakes in the manuscript. We are not perfect, and the presence of errors in our process is not surprising. It does highlight, however, the need both for vigilance (among editors and readers) and an ongoing process for improvement.
Because of the importance of peer review to the quality of TVST, we are indebted to the TVST reviewers for the immensely important contributions they have made to the quality of the journal and for the service they have provided to the entire vision research community. On behalf of our Associate Editors, Editors, and readers, we thank each of you sincerely.
Among the highly accomplished individuals who have generously donated their time and expertise for our benefit, a subset has made outstanding contributions due to the exceptional care with which they have reviewed manuscripts. The Editors of TVST have been asked to recognize these individuals by identifying them as “exceptional reviewers.” We are pleased to offer special recognition to these individuals as part of our thanks to each of the reviewers for TVST.
TVST is our journal, and it will be as useful a source of information as we make it through the submission of our work and, no less, through the peer review to which that work is subjected.
We thank the following reviewers for their generous assistance in evaluating manuscripts submitted to Translational Vision Science & Technology. The list comprises all those, including editors, who completed one or more reviews from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022.
Balaratnasingam, Chandrakumar
Cicinelli, Maria Vittoria
Lima de Carvalho, Jr., Jose Ronaldo
Martinez-Camarillo, Juan Carlos
Raghunathan, Vijay Krishna
Réaux-Le-Goazigo, Annabelle
Schmitz-Valckenberg, Steffen
Zuniga-Sanchez, Elizabeth
Alshehri, Jawaher Mohammad
Ariza-Gracia, Miguel Ángel
Balasubramanian, Sankaragomathi B.
Basuthkar, Sundar Rao Subam
Brémond-Gignac, Dominique
Debellemanière, Guillaume
della Volpe Waizel, Maria
Drigeard Desgarnier, Marie-Catherine
Falkenberg, Helle Kristine
Fernando Sieminski, Sandra
Heath Jeffery, Rachael C.
Hussaindeen, Jameel Rizwana
Mirhajianmoghadam, Hanieh
Mursch-Edlmayr, Anna Sophie
Ochoa Tabares, Juan Carlos
Paschalis, Eleftherios I.
Rajalakshmi, Ramachandran
Ramesh, Prasanna Venkatesh
Sapieha, Przemyslaw (Mike)
Sepulveda, Juan Alejandro
Szczesna-Iskander, Dorota H.