Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Diseases maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 35 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 28 days and the median time to publication was 48 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Abenavoli, Ludovico | Matsuura, Bunzo |
| Adriaenssens, Eric | Mayhan, William G. |
| Alves, Sandra | McCoy, Sarah J. Breese |
| Amital, Howard | Mei, Ya-Fang |
| Athyros, Vasilios | Mestha, Lalit K |
| August, Keith J | Michelhaugh, Sharon Kay |
| Bakonyi, Tamas | Miranda, Katrina |
| Balkema-Buschmann, Anne | Monroy, Fernando |
| Bellezza, Ilaria | Morgante, Giuseppe |
| Bommakanti, Gayathri | Nadiminty, Nagalakshmi |
| Bortkiewicz, Alicja | Nemeth, Lynne |
| Bravo, Laura | Nolan, John |
| Bullon, Pedro | Olomu, Isoken |
| Burger, Michael | Onyenwoke, Rob U |
| Cai, Tommaso | Pan, Meixia |
| Catassi, Carlo | Pang, Myung-Geol |
| Ceranowicz, Piotr | Piche, Marie-Eve |
| Choy, Francis YM | Pistelli, Francesco |
| Conigliaro, Alice | Poluektova, Larisa |
| Conrad, Zach | Pulido, Olga M |
| Das, Anupa | Ramos, Sonia |
| Dekker, Marloes | Rodenbeck, Stacey Dineen |
| Edwards, Erika | Sabrina, Noel |
| Everett, Carlos | Saisho, Yoshifumi |
| Fernandez, Maria Luz | Senneville, Éric |
| Grant, William | Sharland, Mike |
| Gray, Andrew | Sheng, Xiuzhen |
| Grimaldi, Domenico | Shi, Jiaqi |
| Grinberg, Daniel | Skoien, Richard |
| Harvey, Adam | Steel, Laura F. |
| Heggermont, Ward | Strohmaier, Walter L. |
| Hioki, Hirofumi | Sukocheva, Olga |
| Igaz, Peter | Tan, Bee K |
| Islam, M. Nurul | Tao-Hsin, Tung |
| Jang, Byoung Kuk | Teschke, Rolf |
| Jansen, Eugene | Tiller, Daniel |
| JENA, PRASANT | Tso, For Yue |
| Karanis, Panagiotis | Unchwaniwala, Nuruddin |
| Kashiwagi, Shinichiro | Van De Wetering, Marianne Desiree |
| Kim, Hyung Sik | Van Hoek, Bart |
| Klims-Zacas, Dorothy | Vanamala, Jairam K.P. |
| Kulus, Michał | Vilageliu, LLuisa |
| Kumar, Kanta | Wahlestedt, Claes |
| Kurdowska, Anna K. | Wang, Cheng-ping |
| Kuwabara, Masanari | Wang, Xinkun |
| Lamonaca, F. | Ward, Peter A |
| Lang, Chim | Wegrzyn, Grzegorz |
| Langhammer, Birgitta | Weinreb, Neal J. |
| Leibowitz, Avshalom | Wilusz, Jeff |
| Li, Rui | Xu, Jing |
| Li, Weijuan | Yang, Zhengyu |
| Lim, Jeong-A | Yiannakopoulou, Eugenia |
| Lin, Gen-Min | Yin, Jun |
| Lonardo, Amedeo | Yoo, Tag Keun |
| Louvet, Alexandre | Young, Jeanine |
| Machaczka, Maciej | Yumoto, Hiromichi |
| Makishima, Makoto | Zakaria, Dala |
| Martini, Maurizio | Zavattari, Patrizia |
| Martino, Sabata | Zhong, Xiaobo |
| Marzullo, Paolo |
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