Acknowledging the Contribution of Referees
这篇编辑说明感谢了审稿人的贡献，介绍了期刊的审稿流程、时间（首次决定69天）和质量控制，并表彰了年度最佳审稿人。
As we have explained in our editorial to this issue (12038), IJMR could not function without the support of those referees who give their time freely to ensure that high quality papers are published in journal. The editorial team attempt to select reviewers who are familiar with the topic under consideration and are able to provide a rigorous evaluation of the paper. Occasionally, there may be some compromises as it can be very difficult to obtain reviewers for some areas of research. There have, for example, been papers which have required more that fifteen invitations before we have obtained agreement from three reviewers. Consequently, we are very grateful to those scholars who respond quickly to emails from the editorial team and to those who take on reviews with tight deadlines. Despite difficulties with a small number of papers we have been able to maintain the time to first decision at 69 days. Having a speedy review process is particularly important for IJMR as we always aim to publish state-of-the-art literature reviews. At the same time, we will never compromise on quality and many authors are asked for further minor amendments after their papers have been accepted for publication by the reviewers. The co-editors are keen to expand our database of reviewers and if you would like to contribute to the journal you can register through the IJMR portal at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijmr. It is our pleasure, on behalf of Wiley Blackwell and BAM, to thank all those listed below who reviewed for the journal in 2013. The majority of reviewers provide diligent and thoughtful feedback that enables authors to develop their papers to the standard required for publication in IJMR. One measure of the quality of reviews is that we now reject very few papers at the second review stage. We would also like to acknowledge the outstanding contributions by a number of scholars who provided excellent reviews over the period. In consultation with the associate editors, David Denyer and Ellen Parker were highly commended for the quality of their reviewing. After very careful consideration, the co-editors decided that there would be a joint award for reviewer of the year in 2013: Martin Friesl (Lancaster University, UK) and Douglas Cumming (York University, Canada) both made outstanding contributions to the journal. Thank you for your continued support of IJMR.