A BRIEF NOTE OF THANKS (original) (raw)
Editorial and recognition of the valuable role of our peer reviewers
The Irish Journal of Management
We wanted to use the start of this editorial as an opportunity to thank our peer reviewers who have given up their time to support the Irish Journal of Management since Marian and I took over as co-editors-in-chief in January 2021. As mentioned in the last editorial (of issue 40(1) of the Irish Journal of Management), we would like to ensure ongoing recognition of peer reviewers of the Irish Journal of Management. Peer reviewers play an invaluable role in the academic publishing process. They act as a 'critical anonymous friend' by providing constructive feedback to help researchers to refi ne their ideas and extract greater contributions and impact from research. Peer reviewers also help ensure the validity, reliability and originality of research in order to maintain the integrity of science. At the Irish Journal of Management, all papers go through a double-blind peer review process to ensure articles will be of a suitable quality for our readership. We acknowledge that being a peer reviewer is an unpaid role and requires individuals to give up their time to support their discipline. Without this, the progression of science would be negatively impacted. Therefore, we want to say a big THANK YOU to all our peer reviewers who completed reviews which have resulted in fi nal decisions on articles. A list of these reviewers, from 01/01/21 until 30/06/22, can be found in appendix 1 and will also be recognized on the Irish Journal of Management tab of the Irish Academy of Management website (https://iamireland.ie/journal/). Reviewers of papers currently in the review process will be acknowledged in our annual acknowledgement going forward-both in the editorial appendix of the journal and on the website. We hope you continue to support and promote the journal as we go through a new phase of trying to grow our readership and reach. If any reviewers during this time period have been inadvertently left off this list,
BDJ, 2009
The BDJ editorial team would like to thank all the people who help maintain the quality of scientific papers in the BDJ by acting as referees. By November this year, we had received over 700 manuscripts, an unprecedented number. The following list contains the referees who have worked on scientific papers during 2009.