Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Life maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 51 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 21 days and the median time to publication was 51 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Aaron Engelhart | Liam M. Longo |
| Aaron S. Burton | Linda McGown |
| Adam Kun | Lisa Stein |
| Addy Pross | Loren Williams |
| Alexander Bolshoy | Luc Jaeger |
| Ana Crnkovic | Lukasz Dziewit |
| Andre Brack | Marc Tessera |
| Andrés de la Escosura | Marc T. Facciotti |
| Andrew J. Surman | Marie-Christine, Maurel |
| Armen Mulkidjanian | Markus Ralser |
| Arturo Becerra | Martha A. Grover |
| Balázs Könnyű | Massimo Di Giulio |
| Barry Saville | Matthew Pasek |
| Bonnie Baxter | Matthew Powner |
| Brian J. Cafferty | Michael Blaber |
| Brian R. Francis | Michael Hecht |
| Carl Devito | Michael Russell |
| Carl Trindle | Michael Schweizer |
| Chandra Wickramasinghe | Michele Fiore |
| Charles Liotta | Mike Dyall-Smith |
| Charles Jr. Carter | Mikhail M. Vorob’ev |
| Christian Mayer | Min Guo |
| Christoph A. Weber | MV Jose |
| Christophe Lavelle | Nam-Joon Cho |
| Chunliang Liu | Nediljko Budisa |
| Constantinos Stathopoulos | Niles Lehman |
| Cynthia M. Morton | Nils Holm |
| Dave Speijer | Nobuhiko Suematsu |
| David Penny | Pasquale Stano |
| David S. Ross | Patrick O’Donoghue |
| Dennis Görlich | Paul Clarke |
| Diego Luis Gonzalez | Paul Higgs |
| Dino Moras | Peter Strazewski |
| Duncan Forgan | Peter Unrau |
| Eliana Beltrán-Pardo | Peter Walde |
| Elias Chatzitheodoridis | Peter R. Wills |
| Emanuele Zonaro | Rafal M. Wieczorek |
| Enver Cagri Izgu | Raffaele Saladino |
| Falcinelli Stefano | Rainer Merkl |
| Fengjie Sun | Ralf Möller |
| Filipa L. Sousa | Richard Egel |
| Filippo Caschera | Richard P. Fahlman |
| Gabriel Zentner | Rob M. De Graaf |
| Geoff Wild | Robert Pascal |
| George Fox | Robert Root-Bernstein |
| Georgy Karev | Romeu Guimaraes |
| Greg Springsteen | Rosanna del Gaudio |
| Gregory Fournier | Russell F. Doolittle |
| Harold S. Bernhardt | Sandra Pizzarello |
| Helen Hansma | Satoshi Akanuma |
| Hervé Seligmann | Sheref Mansy |
| Hodaka Fujii | Shin-ichi Yokobori |
| Hubert Dominique Becker | Simone Giannerini |
| Hussein Kaddour | Solveig Tosi |
| Hyman Hartman | Sreejith Ramakrishnan |
| Igor Shuryak | Stefan Fox |
| Jack T. O’Malley-James | Stuart Bartlett |
| Jason Raymond | Szymon Wasik |
| Jiann-Ruey Hong | Takahiro Hohsaka |
| Jiri Šponer | Tetsuo Kushiro |
| Joanne K. Hobbs | Tetsushi Sakuma |
| John Yin | Thomas Georgelin |
| Jordi Piñero | Thomas Simonson |
| Juan Manuel García-Ruiz | Thomas C. Boothby |
| Karen Bell | Thomas M. Orlando |
| Kelly Sheppard | Tony Jia |
| Kenji Ikehara | Ulrich Muller |
| Kenneth A. Dill | Veronica Vaida |
| Kensaku Sakamoto | William Bains |
| Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo | William H. McClain |
| Koichiro Matsuno | Yoshihiro Furukawa |
| Kumar Saurabh Singh | Yu-Fen Zhao |
| Kunio Kawamura | A.V. Korotayev |
| Leonardo Sorci |
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