As a part of Peer Review Week 2026, to show our gratitude for the ongoing support and service of our reviewers to the journals, and the wider scientific community, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all peer reviewers. Reviewers serve a vital role in maintaining the high standards of ACAMH’s journals, providing diligent and insightful feedback to authors and serving as the foundation of the production of fascinating, valued papers in the field of child and adolescent mental health, and beyond.
The theme of 2026’s Peer Review Week is ‘Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed, and Quality‘. Submissions continue to rapidly increase, while recent developments like AI-use simultaneously pose concerns for research integrity and increase required triage, whilst also raising expectations for faster decision-making. Balancing the volume, speed and quality of returned reviews is all the more important as a result, with the role of the reviewer becoming all the more vital to mediate a greater volume of papers, requiring greater scrutiny, under greater time pressure. We, at ACAMH, are repeatedly humbled by the generosity, efficiency and expertise of our reviewers, their ability to effectively maintain this balance, and are ultimately all the more grateful for their time.
Celebrating Excellence in Peer Review
We are proud to present the list of Top Reviewers for the 2025 calendar year. The individuals included in the list below have been evaluated on the number of reviews they have carried out for the journal, as well as for the quality and timeliness of their reviews. However, there are many more reviewers that didn’t make this list, but nevertheless provided reviews of great quality, for which we are incredibly grateful. To this end, from 2024 onwards we also publish a full list of our reviewers (see here for the 2025 calendar year) with 700+ generous reviewers giving their time – We are endlessly grateful for this growing community.
JCPP Top Reviewers
- Ravi Bansal, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, USA
- Arthur Caye, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Tony Charman, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, UK
- Yun-Ju Chen, Offord Centre for Child Studies Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, Canada
- David Hawes, University of Sydney, Australia
- Charles Hulme, University of Oxford, UK
- Thomas Olino, Temple University, USA
- David Pagliaccio, New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA
- Giorgia Picci, Boys Town National Research Hospital, USA
- Martin Rimvall, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Centre, Denmark
CAMH Top Reviewers
- Oonagh Coleman, King’s College London, UK
- Ummugulsum Gundogdu, Bolu Izzet Baysal State Hospital, Türkiye
- Emily Hielscher, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia
- Laura Korhonen, Linköping University, Sweden
- Kasonde Mwaba, CDC, USA
- Dennis Ougrin, King’s College London, UK
- Victoria Pile, King’s College London, UK
- Nicholas Spencer, University of Warwick, USA
- Mattias Strand, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Mark Weist, University of South Carolina, USA
JCPP Advances Top Reviewers
- Rosanna Breaux, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
- Tycho Dekkers, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Danya Glaser, UCL, UK
- Thorhildur Halldorsdottir, Reykjavik University, Iceland
- Anna Pezzella, Universita degli studi della Campania “L.Vanvitelli”, Italy
- Libor Potočár, University of Oslo, Norway
- Jamilah Silver, Stony Brook University, USA
- Satoshi Usami, University of Tokyo Education, Japan
- Jasmin Wertz, The University of Edinburgh, UK
- Hui Zheng, National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA
Celebrating Excellence in our Affiliate Editors
ACAMH’s flagship journal JCPP is very lucky to have an excellent board of Affiliate Editors, who diligently and effectively facilitate the peer review process or assistant in triage, additionally providing supplementary reviews for papers that struggle to find sufficient reviewer response.
We would therefore like to share our thanks to the current JCPP Affiliate Editors:
- Silvia Alemany, VHIR Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, Spain
- Rachael Bedford, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Rosanna Breaux, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, VA, USA
- Alexis Brieant, University of Vermont, VT, USA
- Katie Burkhouse, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, OH, USA
- Zheng Chang, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- Shayna Cheek, Duke University Medical Centre, USA
- Or Dagan, Long Island University, NY, USA
- Luis Farhat, Yale Child Study Center, USA
- Brian Gillis, Auburn University, USA
- Kelsey Hagan, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA
- Caitlin Hitchcock, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Caroline Hoyniak, Washington University, USA
- Julian Koenig, University of Cologne, Germany
- Kasia Kostyrka-Allchorne, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Saloni Krishnan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
- Patty Leijten, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Isabel Morales-Muñoz, University of Birmingham UK
- Aja Murray, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Divyangana Rakesh, King’s College London, UK
- Mark Wade, University of Toronto, Canada
- Rebecca Waller, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
- Jasmin Wertz, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Yayouk Willems, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
Celebrating Excellence in our Early Career Researchers
The Editorial Office is actively exploring a spectrum of ideas to further showcase our appreciation for the vital role that reviewers perform, including the recently formed JCPP, CAMH and JCPP Advances Early Career Researcher (ECR) Panels, to spotlight, formalise and provide a platform for ECR contributions to peer review.
We would therefore like to share our thanks to the current members of the ECR Reviewer Panel (JCPP, CAMH, JCPPA) for their time and expertise:
- Melissa Aji, Black Dog Institute, Australia
- Lianne Bakkum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Anka Bernhard, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Meghan E. Byrne, National Institutes of Health, MD, USA
- Yun-Ju Chen, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
- Roos van Doornik, Accare, Child Study Center, The Netherlands
- Cope Feurer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Natalie Goulter, Flinders University, Australia
- Dani Green, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, OH, USA
- Quentin Guillon, Université de Toulouse, France
- Suzanne de Jong-Art, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Nanyu Kuyang, National Institutes of Health, MD, USA
- Shaun Liverpool, Edge Hill University, UK
- Alex Lloyd, University College London, UK
- Samantha Ofili, University of Glasgow, UK
- Zoe Reed, University of Bristol, UK
- Brianne N. Richson, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), MD, USA
- Maria Rodriguez-Perez, Kings College London, UK
- Elizabeth A. Shewark, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
- Jennifer Suor, University of Illinois Chicago, IL, USA
- Emma Thornton, University of Manchester, UK
- Foteini Tseliou, Cardiff University, USA
- Guilherme Veronesi, University of Southampton, UK
- Anouk Vroegindeweij, Radboud University, The Netherlands
- Francesca Zecchinato, University of Southampton, UK
- Marija Živković, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
If you are an early career researcher interested in a potential position on the panel, we would love to hear from you.
Thanks again to all our peer reviewers for their invaluable contributions to the ongoing success of ACAMH’s journals. ACAMH wishes to encourage any potential reviewers who are thinking of joining the peer review process. All reviewers for ACAMH are recognized for their invaluable work through five available recognition schemes – See here for more details.
For those less familiar with the process, take a look at our general advice to reviewers below:
- be fair – the process relies on your expertise so try to be objective and timely
- be open – if you are unable to accept a request due to other commitments, lack of expertise, or a conflict of interest – it is always better to say than delay the process
- be constructive – when you identify problems with the paper, try to suggest how they can be addressed
- consider context – a good review examines both the scientific rigour of the paper and what it contributes to the field as a whole
We would also like to take this time to encourage any reviewers who are thinking of joining the peer review process. If you are interested in reviewing papers for any of ACAMH’s journals, please get in touch with the Publications Team.