Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Geosciences maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 135 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 22 days and the median time to publication was 61 days. Among the reviewers who reviewed for Geosciences in 2017, Prof. Dr. Maurizio Barbieri (Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) has been selected to receive the “Geosciences 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Award” for the timeliness and quality of his review reports in the last year.
The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Abella, Pura Alfonso | Love, Jeffrey J. |
| Abudu, Shalamu | Lowry, John |
| Agangi, Andrea | Lysandrou, Vasiliki |
| Agusa, Tetsuro | Ma, Xiaodong |
| Ahmadi, Ehsan | MacDonald, Ian |
| Ala-Aho, Pertti | MacEachern, Scott |
| Alexakis, Dimitrios | Madricardo, Fantina |
| Alizad, Karim | Maingi, John |
| Alkhaddar, Rafid | Makinen, Harri |
| Al-Mudhafar, Watheq J. | Malek, Žiga |
| Altmann, Yoann | Malesios, Chrisovalantis |
| Alves, Carlos | Mallorqui, Jordi |
| Amatulli, Giuseppe | Mana, Sara |
| Anagnostopoulos, Georgios | Manchester, Steven |
| Aoki, Yosuke | Manconi, Andrea |
| Apituley, Arnoud | Manjon-Collado, Guillermo |
| Arena, Derrick Adam | Manna, Ferdinando |
| Artese, Giuseppe | Maréchal, Jean-Christophe |
| Ashraf, Salman | Margeta, Karmen |
| Asplin, Matthew G. | Marques, Rosa |
| Astel, Aleksander | Martínez-Graña, Antonio |
| Ata, Riadh | Martini, Anna M. |
| Atzori, Simone | Maselli, Vittorio |
| Azzoni, Roberto Sergio | Masoudian, Mohsen |
| Badreldin, Nasem | Mastrocicco, Micol |
| Bakalowicz, Michel | Matano, Fabio |
| Ballhaus, Chris | Mateo-Lázaro, Jesús |
| Barbieri, Maurizio | Mather, Anne |
| Barone, Pier Matteo | Matthews, Tony |
| Barreca, Giovanni | Matysová, Petra |
| Barsanti, Michele | Mauri, Guillaume |
| Bartoli, Omar | Maxwell, Aaron |
| Barzaghi, Riccardo | McAdoo, Brian G. |
| Basilone, Luca | McCormick, Brendan |
| Bassi, Davide | McCoy, Mark D. |
| Baziotis, Ioannis | McGlue, Michael M. |
| Belda, Michal | Meisina, Claudia |
| Bellamy, Rob | Mergili, Martin |
| Bellavista, Paolo | Merz, Christoph |
| Bellos, Vasilis | Michelena, Marina |
| Bellucci, Jeremy | Michelutti, Neal |
| Bento, Rita Nogueira Leite | Middleton, William |
| Berezowski, Tomasz Edward | Mignan, Arnaud |
| Bernier, Monique | Miguel, Javier Plaza |
| Berrezueta, Edgar | Milke, Ralf |
| Beyabanaki, S. Amir Reza | Mishra, Ashok |
| Bhowmik, Avit K. | Miskewitz, Robert |
| Bilotta, Giuliana | Miyahara, Masaaki |
| Birrer, Simone | Mogk, David W. |
| Bitelli, Gabriele | Molnar, Ferenc |
| Bizimis, Michael | Monteiro Santos, Fernando |
| Blanton, Brian | Monterroso-Checa, Antonio |
| Blumenberg, Martin | Montgomery, Marilyn Christina |
| Bobrowsky, Peter | Montuori, Antonio |
| Boekhout, Flora | Morales Esteban, Antonio |
| Bogardi, Janos | Morgado Sousa, Paulo |
| Bohle, Martin | Morishita, Tomoaki |
| Bohling, Björn | Mozzi, Paolo |
| Bojar, Ana-voica | Nadeau, Patricia |
| Bojariu, Roxana | Nagarajan, Magesh |
| Bookman, Revital | Nakagawa, Takashi |
| Borghini, Giulio | Nakao, Shunsuke |
| Borrelli, Luigi | Nandasena, N. A. K. |
| Boschetti, Tiziano | Nardi, Fernando |
| Bossi, Giulia | Nasser, Abu Zeid |
| Botero, Carlos | Nathan, Rory |
| Bourguignon, Sandra | Navarro, Jose |
| Bourliva, Anna | Nemeth, Karoly |
| Braunmiller, Jochen | Nerantzis, Kazakis |
| Breeze, Paul | Nesje, Atle |
| Bröcker, Michael | Neu, Thomas |
| Brooke, Brendan | Neupauer, Roseanna M. |
| Brothers, Laura L. | Neves, Orquídia |
| Brown, Shaun | Nichersu, Iulian |
| Brutel Vuilmet, Claire | Nichol, Scott |
| Buchroithner, Manfred | Nikolaou, Michael |
| Burakowski, Elizabeth | Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios |
| Buscombe, Daniel | Nimmagadda, Shastri L. |
| Butts, Susan | Nobile, Adriano |
| Cacciottolo, Mafalda | Novellino, Alessandro |
| Cammalleri, Carmelo | Nóvoa-Muñoz, Juan Carlos |
| Campbell, Michael | Obermann, Anne |
| Cantoro, Gianluca | Ogiesoba, Osareni |
| Capuano, Paolo | Ojovan, Michael |
| Carling, Gregory T. | Olea, Ricardo |
| Carvalho, Rui Filipe Ferreira | Oliva, Belén |
| Casalbore, Daniele | Oliveira, Sérgio C. |
| Casolo, Siro | O'Loughlin, Fiachra |
| Castaldo, Raffaele | Omira, Rachid |
| Castanera, Diego | Omosanya, K.O. |
| Cavalli, Rosa | O'neill, Eoin |
| Ceola, Serena | Ono, Kotaro |
| Chand, Shyam | Oommen, Thomas |
| Chang, Hsien-Kuo | Opitz, Rachel S. |
| Chanudet, Vincent | Orsini, Andrea |
| Chapman, Henry | Osipov, Eduard |
| Chapman, Bruce | Ougier-Simonin, Audrey |
| Chau, Kwok-wing | Ozawa, Shin |
| Cheng, Liang | Ozdemir, Zuhal |
| Cheng, Zhongqi | Pagnoni, Gianluca |
| Cherkouk, Andrea | Panagiotaras, Dionisios |
| Chousianitis, Konstantinos | Parcero-Oubiña, César |
| Chronopoulou, Myrsini | Park, Hyoungsu |
| Ciabatta, Luca | Park, Changhyup |
| Cianfarra, Paola | Pastor, Amandine |
| Cigna, Francesca | Paton, Douglas |
| Cinti, Daniele | Patrick, Pigeon |
| Coelho, Celeste | Pattison, David |
| Colombani, Nicolo | Pavelka, Karel |
| Coltice, Nicolas | Peace, Alexander |
| Coman, Cristian | Peakall, Jeff |
| Comer, Douglas | Peduto, Dario |
| Comina, Cesare | Pellicani, Roberta |
| Corbett, Patrick | Pelto, Mauri |
| Corigliano, Alberto | Peng, Jian |
| Costabile, Pierfranco | Pereira, Alcides |
| Cowley, Dave | Pering, Tom |
| Cox, Dan | Petach, Helen |
| Crema, Stefano | Peters, Nial |
| Cuenca-Garcia, Carmen | Philip, Graham |
| Currenti, Gilda | Picozzi, Matteo |
| Cutter, George | Ping, Chien-Lu |
| Cvetković, Vladica | Pinilla-Gil, Eduardo |
| Dafforn, Katherine A. | Piotrowska-Seget, Zofia |
| Daisuke, Nakashima | Pirard, Cassian |
| Danielache, Sebastian | Podgorski, Joel |
| Daniels, Katherine Anne | Poli, Maria Eliana |
| Dartnell, Peter | Poljak, Dragan |
| Davies, Jaime | Pratt-Sitaula, Beth A. |
| Day, Simon | Preissler, Jana |
| De Giglio, Osvalda | Prudencio, Janire |
| De Pascale, Francesco | Puchkov, Evgeny |
| De Risi, Raffaele | Putnam, Aaron |
| De Smedt, Philippe | Pyle, David |
| Del Soldato, Matteo | Queisser, Manuel |
| Dellepiane, Matteo | Quintus, Seth |
| Deo, Ravinesh C. | Raby, Alison |
| Derksen, Chris | Rączkowski, Włodzimierz |
| DeSouza, Guilherme | Radakovic, Zoran |
| Di Chiara, Anita | Radziemska, Maja |
| Di Francesco, Silvia | Raimondi, Valentina |
| Di Matteo, Lucio | Rajaee, Mozhgon |
| Di Risio, Marcello | Ranaivomanana, Harifidy |
| Diez, Anja | Raouf, Abdul |
| Disperati, Leonardo | Ravaioli, Stefano |
| Dixit, Vinayak | Razzolini, Novella |
| Dong, Chunyu | Reid, Alan |
| Douglass, Matthew | Reinoso, Juan Francisco |
| Draganits, Erich | Remondino, Fabio |
| Dufour, Suzanne | Resop, Jonathan |
| Duque, Carlos | Revuelto, Jesús |
| Eble, Cortland | Reymond, Dominique |
| Elefante, Stefano | Rianna, Guido |
| Elfadaly, Abdelaziz | Riede, Felix |
| Elliott, Brent | Riel, Nicolas |
| Epting, Jannis | Rizoulis, Athanasios |
| Erikstad, Lars | Rizzetto, Federica |
| Eveillard, Damien | Rizzi, Egidio |
| Ezard, Thomas H G | Roberts, Tjarda |
| Fairley, Iain | Rogge, Derek |
| Fakiris, Elias | Rolf, Tobias |
| Fall, Patrica | Ronchetti, Francesco |
| Fan, Jinlong | Rossi, Giuliana |
| Fanti, Riccardo | Rössler, Ole |
| Faria, Sérgio Henrique | Roumpos, Christos |
| Feng, Wanpeng | Rubenstein, Dustin R. |
| Ferdani, Daniele | Ruiz Armenteros, Antonio Miguel |
| Fernández-Salas, Luis Miguel | Runfola, Daniel Miller M. |
| Fiaschi, Simone | Russo, Salvatore |
| Fiket, Željka | Sagan, Vasit |
| Filchev, Lachezar H. | Sagnotti, Leonardo |
| Fiorentino, Dario | Sak, Jarosław J. |
| Fort, Monique | Salvi, Maria Cristina |
| Fossen, Haakon | Samanta, Sailesh |
| Franch, Belén | Sanjurjo-Sánchez, Jorge |
| Franke, Christine | Santi, Emanuele |
| Friis, Henrik | Santos, Angela |
| Frison, Pierre-Louis | Sardini, Paul |
| Frizon De Lamotte, Dominique | Savini, Alessandra |
| Frodella, William | Sawada, Yohei |
| Frohne, Tina | Sawidis, Thomas |
| Fuenzalida, Amaya | Schimel, Alexandre |
| Fuhrmann, Thomas | Schimmelmann, Arndt |
| Funehag, Johan | Schindler, Susanne |
| Galamboš, Michal | Schindler, Dirk |
| Gall, Melanie | Schmatz, Joyce |
| Ganas, Athanassios | Schmidt, Jeremy |
| Ganguly, Sayantan | Schmidt, Sabine |
| Garcia, Rosario | Schmidt, Jeremy J. |
| Garrison, Ervan | Schöne, Tilo |
| Gašparović, Mateo | Schwab, Arthur Paul |
| Gauthier, Pierre-Jean | Schweiger, Andreas |
| Gee, Jeffrey | Schwenzer, Susanne P. |
| Geissman, John Wm | Scogings, Chris |
| Genzano, Nicola | Sellitto, Pasquale |
| Gershenzon, Naum | Shahgedanova, Maria |
| Gianniou, Michail | Sharma, Shikha |
| Giano, Salvatore Ivo | Sharma, Himanshu |
| Gierlinski, Gerard | Sharma, Ram C. |
| Gioia, Dario | Sharp, Zachary D. |
| Girelli, Valentina Alena | Sherman, Recinda |
| Giuliani, Silvia | Side, Jonathan C. |
| Gloaguen, Erwan | Sierra-Fernández, Carlos |
| Gojda, Martin | Simeone, Vincenzo |
| Gómez-Ortiz, David | Skakun, Sergii |
| Gong, Wenyu | Skardal, Per Sebastian |
| Gorokhovich, Yuri | Skilodimou, Hariklia D. |
| Goseberg, Nils | Song, Gwo-Shyh |
| Graversen, Rune | Sonnemann, Till F. |
| Greco, Filippo | Spagnolo, Matteo |
| Green, Andrew | Spiegel, Sam |
| Griffin, Jonathan | Spilotro, Giuseppe |
| Grimley, David A. | Stamatopoulos, Constantine A. |
| Grischek, Thomas | Stathis, Dimitrios |
| Grochla, Krzysztof | Stebel, Kerstin |
| Grozavu, Adrian | Steffen, Holger |
| Gualtieri, Carlo | Strąpoć, Dariusz |
| Gulick, Dr. Sean P. S. | Stremme, Wolfgang |
| Guswa, Andrew | Suckale, Jenny |
| Haack, Barry | Svensson, Anders |
| Habuda-Stanic, Mirna | Svensson, Gunilla |
| Hamdan, Nasser | Svigkas, Nikos |
| Hardin, Ernest | Swanson, David K. |
| Harrington, James M. | Swarbrick, Richard |
| Harris, Ron Alan | Szantoi, Zoltan |
| Harwood, Amii R. | Szyszkowicz, Mieczysław |
| Havenith, Hans-Balder | Tabbagh, Alain |
| Hayashi, Koichi | Taborda, Ricardo |
| Heck, Philipp R. | Tacconi Stefanelli, Carlo |
| Hejmanowski, Ryszard | Talhofer, Václav |
| Herrmann, Jason | Tandlich, Roman |
| Hill, Jon | Tapete, Deodato |
| Hoey, Trevor | Tartèse, Romain |
| Hoffmann, Lars | Teatini, Pietro |
| Huang, Mong-Han | Tehranirad, Babak |
| Huettmann, Falk | Teixell, Antonio |
| Hunt, Alistair | Tessari, Giulia |
| Ibrahim, Amr | Themistocleous, Kyriacos |
| Ijiri, Akira | Thiery, Yannick |
| Intrieri, Emanuele | Thomas, Helen |
| Ionita, Anca Daniela | Thordarson, Thor |
| Jablan, Jasna | Tiampo, Kristy |
| Jakob, Matthias | Tian, Kuo |
| Janicki, Grzegorz | Tiranti, Davide |
| Janzen, Thijs | Tizzani, Pietro |
| Javankhoshdel, Sina | Tockner, Klement |
| Jefferis, Stephan | Tomas-Burguera, Miquel |
| Jenkins, Susanna | Tomoyoshi, Nishiumura |
| Jiang, Ruinian | Toohey, Matthew |
| Johnson, Samuel | Torres, Joana |
| Jones, Cathleen | Torresan, Silvia |
| Jud, Nathan A. | Tortini, Riccardo |
| Jutzeler, Martin | Tosi, Luigi |
| Kaeser, Adam | Touma, Danielle |
| Kalayci, Tuna | Troncone, Antonello |
| Kampanis, Nikolaos A. | Trovato, Maria Rosa |
| Karymbalis, Eythimios | Tsangaratos, Paraskevas |
| Kasprzak, Marek | Tsatsaris, Andreas |
| Kaufhold, Stephan | Tucci, Grazia |
| Keefer, Matthew | Turcotte, Benoit |
| Kendall, Matt | Turner, Simon |
| Kilibarda, Z. | Ulrich, Marc |
| Kilsby, Chris | Underwood, Graham J.C. |
| Kim, Karl | Unnithan, Vikram |
| Kinnaird, Tim | Ur Rehman, Masood |
| Kinoshita, Norikazu | Urai, Minoru |
| Kjær, Helle Astrid | Urdea, Petru |
| Kloppmann, Wolfram | Vacca, Giuseppina |
| Kociuba, Waldemar | Van Ormondt, Maarten |
| Koděra, Peter | Van Westen, Cees |
| Köhle, Maria Papathoma | Vangelis, Harris |
| Koppes, Michele | Vasconcelos, Clara |
| Kostylev, Vladimir E. | Vasilatos, Charalampos |
| Kottou, Sofia | Vasiliades, Lampros |
| Kowalczyk, Sebastian | Vázquez, Juán Tomás |
| Kropáček, Jan | Viana-Baptista, Maria Ana |
| Krueger, Arlin | Vieira, António Avelino Batista |
| Kurevija, Tomislav | Vilimek, Vit |
| Kurnitski, Jarek | Vioque, Ignacio |
| Kusakabe, Minoru | Waite, Gregory P. |
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| Lagabrielle, Yves | Wheate, Roger |
| Lai, Chunkit | Wieser, Andreas |
| Laidlaw, Mark | Wildi, Walter |
| Laing, Carlo R. | Wilkes, Thomas C |
| Lamberti, Luciano | Wilkin, Richard |
| Lanci, Luca | Willaarts, Bárbara A. |
| Lane, Emily | Williams, Christopher J. |
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| Lercari, Nicola | Yancey, Thomas E. |
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| Letcher, Ted | Young, Chih-Chieh |
| Lezzerini, Marco | Yunus, Ali P. |
| Lieb-Lappen, Ross | Yuzugullu, Onur |
| Lim, Aaron | Zaccarini, Federica |
| Liu, Qiao | Zajc, Marjana |
| Liu, Shufan | Zakšek, Klemen |
| Liu, Yonggang | Zeigarnik, Vladimir |
| Lizarazo, Ivan | Zevenbergen, Chris |
| Lobo, Francisco Jose | Zia, Kashif |
| Loibl, David | Zwieback, Simon |
| Lorenson, Thomas D. |
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