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As Editor-in-Chief of Forests, I am pleased to announce the 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Awards of Forests. Careful and timely peer reviews are the foundation for all successful journals. We are pleased to be able to recognize a few outstanding reviewers and offer them a nominal cash award for their exemplary service to Forests and, in turn, to the broader scientific community.
Four reviewers have been selected based on the timeliness, quality and speed of their review reports. They are Dr. Norbert Kunert, Tropical Silviculture and Forest Ecology, Burckhardt Institute, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Dr. Mathias Neumann, Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Peter Jordan-Str. 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria; Prof. Roberto Scotti, Dipartimento di Agraria (Nuoro Forestry School), Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Cristoforo Colombo, 1, 08100, Nuoro, Italy and Dr. Lee Frelich, Center for Forest Ecology, University of Minnesota, USA. Each of them will be granted 500 CHF and receive a waiver of the publication fee for one paper.
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Prof. Dr. Timothy A. Martin Editor-in-Chief School of Forest Resources and Conservation University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, 32611-0410, USA E-Mail: [email protected]
Forests 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Vasiliki Kamperidou
Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54635 Thessaloniki, Greece
Marek Wieruszewski
Department Mechanical Wood Technology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
Marcin Jakubowski
Department of Forest Utilization, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71 A, 60-625 Poznań, Poland
Miroslava Rakocevic
Department of Research and Development, Embrapa Florestas, Colombo 83411-000, PR, Brazil
Award Committee
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
Chairman
University of Auckland
Winner
Petr Pyszko
Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 71000 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Narayan Bhusal
College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University, 1Gwanak ro, Gwanak gu, Korea
Vasiliki Kamperidou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 541 24, Greece
Muhammad Adnan Akram
State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems (SKLGAE), School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China.
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Chairman
University of Florida
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
University of Auckland
Winner
Tomasz Oszako
Forest Research Institute Braci Leśnej 3, 05-090 Sękocin Stary, Poland
Stelian Alexandru Borz
Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Şirul Beethoven 1, Brasov, Romania
Maricar Aguilos
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Narayan Bhusal
College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Korea
Winner
Miguel Girona
Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Campus of Amos, Amos, Canada
Vasiliki Kamperidou
Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Maurizio Marchi
National Research Council Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR) Florence division, Italy
Maricar Aguilos
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy A. Martin
Chairman
University of Florida
Ms. Kira Xu
MDPI
Winner
Ram P. Sharma
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic
Maurizio Marchi
CREA, Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Viale Santa Margherita 80, I-52100 Arezzo, Italy
Miguel Montoro Girona
Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555 boul de l’Université, Chicoutimi, QC G7H 2B1, Canada
