Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Medical Sciences maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 37 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 18 days and the median time to publication was 49 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Arisan, Elif Damla | Kirchengast, Sylvia |
| Bahtiyar, Mert Ozan | Kitamura, Takanori |
| Baroni, Argelinda | Klettner, Alexa |
| Beninati, Simone | Kozarek, Richard |
| Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio | Lakhkar, Anand |
| Bettaieb, Ali | Lalatta, Faustina |
| Bisio, Alessandra | Levenson, Jessica |
| Blum, Jason L. | Li, Dapeng |
| Brewster, Lizzy M | Liu, Guang-Yaw |
| Brun, Jean-Frédéric | Manary, Mark J. |
| Bucolo, Claudio | Medina-Ramírez, Iliana |
| Bukowski, Henryk | Meijles, Daniel |
| Calabrese, Olga | Mill, Jose |
| Campuzano, Oscar | Mirza, Shaper |
| Cardenas Zuniga, Roberto | Mizuno, Koh |
| Cardozo, Eden | Mohammed, Altaf |
| Cartland, Sian | Moisés, Jorge |
| Casero, Robert | Monif, Mastura |
| Catry, Boudewijn | Montalvo González, Efigenia |
| Ceccato, Adrián | Moss, Jon |
| Cervelli, Manuela | Murai, Noriyuki |
| Chen, Suzie | Nana, Andre W. |
| Chim, Stephen | Nancy, Ann |
| Chlebowski, Rowan T. | Naumann, David N |
| Coppola, Gianluca | Nekludov, Michael |
| Cresci, Gail | Nowotarski, Shannon |
| Cui, Zhibin | Oberheim, Bush |
| Cunningham, Patrick | Omote, Hiroshi |
| Dagradi, Federica | Papi, Rigini |
| Datta Chaudhuri, Amrita | Park, Joshua |
| Davis, Thomas P. | Parr, David |
| De La Rosa Carrillo, David | Pegg, Anthony E |
| Den Haan, Jurre | Pirillo, Angela |
| Devaraj, Aishwarya | Prosseda, Gianni |
| Didonna, Alessandro | Pucciarelli, Sandra |
| Dietrich, Johannes W. | Rademacher, Jessica |
| Doan, Ninh | Ramtekkar, Ujjwal |
| Feith, David | Rathinasabapathy, Anandharajan |
| Feng, Yu | Redmer, Torben |
| Flynn, Andrea | Rhee, Joon Haeng |
| Fredriksson-Larsson, Ulla | Rosales-Mayor, Edmundo |
| Garcia-Fruitós, Elena | Rosenfeld, Steve |
| Garcia-Velasco, Juan | Rostasy, Kevin |
| Gastañaduy, Paul | Shteinberg, Michal |
| Geethakumari, Praveen Ramakrishnan | Smith, Bradford |
| George, Cindy | Song, Su |
| Gilmour, Susan | Spencer, Drew |
| Gobert, Alain P. | Stecca, Barbara |
| Gotsbacher, Michael | Stenzelius, Karin |
| Gursel, Mayda | Strack, Peter |
| Hait, Nitai | Subramaniam, Dharmalingam |
| Halasa, Yara | Takeda, Masaki |
| Hao, Lei | Torrejón, Rafael |
| Hassan Hassan M. A. | Tringali, Andrea |
| Hayes, Lawrence | Tsukahara, Tomohide |
| Hayes, Lawrence | Ulivieri, Cristina |
| Heeschen, Christopher | Van Zanten, Malou |
| Houdebine, Louis-Marie | Vermeulen, Louis |
| Igarashi, Kazuei | Villarini, Anna |
| Inamura, Kentaro | Wang, Peng-Hui |
| Ivanov, Alexander V | Ward, Leigh |
| Jain, Nitin | Weeraratna, Ashani |
| Jakovljevic, Mihajlo | Wilson, Robert |
| Jenkins, Jill A. | Withers, Mellissa |
| Jeong, Seok Hoon | Wolansky, Marcelo Javier |
| Jimenez-Escrig, Adriano | Woster, Patrick |
| Jin, Lei | Xiang, Yu |
| Kabra, Rita | Yap, Desmond Y. H. |
| Kalimeri, Kyriaki | You, Xiaona |
| Kamijo-Ikemori, Atsuko | Zuhorn, Inge S. |
| Kim, Yumi |
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