Dear Colleagues,

The JCM Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in assessing the manuscripts submitted to the journal. With their great support, many interesting papers of high quality have been published in JCM and quick peer review process is maintained.

The following three referees have been selected by the Committee of JCM to be awarded “Outstanding Reviewers 2019” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2018. Each of them will receive 500 Swiss Francs and a certificate for their outstanding review work:

1. Dr. Jone A. Stanley
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

2. Dr. Katsuyuki Tanabe
Okayama University Medical School, Department of Nephrology, Okayama, Japan

3. Dr. Nitin Kumar
West Medical Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5644, USA

Warmly congratulate the winners.

Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Andrès
Editor-in-Chief