As a part of Peer Review Week 2025, 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.
Given the theme of 2025’s Peer Review Week: Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era, it is important to note the increasing importance of the role of reviewers in scholarly publishing. The field is enduring a period of confusion around the use/misuse of Large Language Models (LLMs), concerns around papermills, and subsequent effects on research integrity; it becomes all the more important to showcase the support we have from a large community of reviewers. We at ACAMH are repeatedly humbled by the generosity, efficiency and expertise of our reviewers.
We are proud to present the list of Top Reviewers for the 2024 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 2024 calendar year) with 800+ generous reviewers giving their time – We are endlessly grateful for this growing community. We also want to take this opportunity to thank our Affiliate Editors, who routinely provide reviews despite their other commitments to the journal.
JCPP Top Reviewers
- David Goldston, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
- Diana Whalen, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
- Jonathan Schaefer, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Kaili Rimfeld, King’s College London, UK
- Lars Mehlum, University of Oslo, Norway
- Maggie Snowling, University of Oxford, UK
- Martin Rimvall, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
- Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, University of Exeter, UK
- Tony Charman, King’s College London, UK
- Delshad Shroff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
CAMH Top Reviewers
- Alessio Bellato, University of Southampton, UK
- Christopher Bellonci, Judge Baker Children’s Center, USA
- Claire Fraser, University of Manchester, UK
- Francis Vergunst, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Gail Tripp, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
- Handan Terzi, Ankara Medipol University, Türkiye
- Hülya Kulakçı Altıntaş, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Türkiye
- Jane Lim, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
- Ottar Ness, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Tobias Banaschewski, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany
JCPP Advances Top Reviewers
- Alex Lloyd, University College London, UK
- Bjorn Holte Hallstein, VID Specialized University, Norway
- Britt Morthorst, Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri, Denmark
- Dane Stickney, University of Colorado Denver, USA
- Ellen Verhoef, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
- Hollie Gay, University of Exeter, UK
- Koraly Pérez-Edgar, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, University College London, UK
- Mark Stein, University of Washington, USA
- Stephan Collishaw, Cardiff University, UK
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.
The Editorial Office is actively exploring a spectrum of ideas to further showcase our appreciation for the vital role that reviewers perform, including the upcoming creation of JCPP, CAMH and JCPP Advances Early Career Researcher (ECR) Panels, to spotlight, formalise and provide a platform for ECR contributions to peer review. If you are an early career researcher, we would love to hear from you.
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.