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The Editorial Board and the Editorial Team of Universe gratefully acknowledge all those who have kindly given their time to review papers submitted to Universe, and are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Universe Outstanding Reviewer Award. The criteria used for the selection of the winning reviewers included the number of papers reviewed as well as the quality and speed of the reviews.
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Lorenzo Iorio, Ministero dell’Universita e della Ricerca
Oleg Tsupko, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Irina Dymnikova, Uniwersytet Warminsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
Volker Perlick, University of Bremen
Kazuharu Bamba, Fukushima University
Matthias Bartelmann, Universität Heidelberg
Each of them will receive a Certificate of Appreciation, as well as the chance to publish a paper in Universe free of charge in 2020.
