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Reviewer Acknowledgements 2020


The Editors and staff of Genome Biology would like to warmly thank the Reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts in 2020.


Adam Abate

Nezar Abdennur

Brian Abraham

Mazhar Adli

Reuven Agami

Sergey Aganezov

Tim Ahfeldt

Christian Ahrens

Kadir Akdemir

Eduard Akhunov

Kaur Alasoo

M. Mar Alba

John Albeck

Frank Albert

Nikita Alexeev

Hashim Al-Hashimi

Reid Alisch

Can Alkan

Michael Alonge

Pierre Aman

Guillaume Andrey

Oscar Aparicio

Samuel Aparicio

Kazuharu Arakawa

Jean-Michel Arbona

Dan Arking

Joshua A Arribere

Katsura Asano

Peter Askjaer

Gil Ast

Liliana Attisano

Kin Fai Au

Jean-Marc Aury

Frédéric Austerlitz

Petri Auvinen

Francisco Avila Cobos

Sharon Aviran

Rhonda Bacher

Helene Badouin

Melanie Bahlo

Syed Murtuza Baker

Vikas Bansal

Frederic Bantignies

Yoseph Barash

Matteo Barberis

Nuno Barbosa-Morais

Ziv Bar-Joseph

Alice Barkan

Nick Barker

Fredy Barneche

Célia Baroux

Lars Barquist

David Bartel

Douglas Hoyt Bartlett

Adam Bass

Hank Bass

Anindita Basu

Luis F. Z. Batista

Eduard Batlle

Alexis Battle

Philipp Bayer

Elizabeth Bayne

Ariel Bazzini

Gregory Beatty

Attila Becskei

Martin Beer

Niko Beerenwinkel

Victoria Belancio

Jordana Bell

Abdelhafid Bendahmane

Sean Bendall

Johan Bengtsson-Palme

Asa Ben-Hur

Frederic Berger

Roberta Bergero

Denis Bertrand

Ami Bhatt

Maarten Bijlsma

Kenneth Birnbaum

Kyle Bittinger

Mathieu Blanchette

Benjamin Blencowe

Todd Blevins

Jesse Bloom

Elizabeth Blue

Jamie R. Blundell

Beatrice Bodega

Michael Boehnke

Michael Boemo

Valentina Boeva

Ozren Bogdanovic

Boyan Bonev

Constanze Bonifer

Dominik Boos

Leonardo Bottolo

Guillaume Bourque

Cameron Bracken

Christopher Bradburne

Peter Bradbury

Gloria Brar

Brian Brown

C. Titus Brown

James. R. Brown

Benoit Bruneau

Davide Bulgarelli

Brian Burke

Harmen Bussemaker

Kerstin Bystricky

Michael A. Calderwood

George Calin

Benjamin Callahan

Kieran Campbell

Dario Cantu

Junyue Cao

Ruifeng Cao

John Capra

Susan Carpenter

Stephane Castel

Leandro Castellano

David Chagne

Mark Chaisson

Ronald Chalmers

Keith Syson Chan

Ronald Chandler

Tamir Chandra

Matthew Chang

Aniruddha Chatterjee

Ken Chen

Mengjie Chen

Pao-Yang Chen

Wei Chen

Jun Chen

Wei Chen

Xin Chen

Xuemei Chen

Jiekai Chen

Jia Chen

Yong Cheng

Shi-Yuan Cheng

Rayan Chikhi

Jae Young Choi

Chengcai Chu

Trees-Juen Chuang

Johnathan Chubb

Hachung Chung

Andrew Clark

Marek Cmero

Luis Pedro Coelho

Philippe Collas

Andres Colubri

Gavin Conant

Ana Conesa

Dianne Cook

Douglas Cook

Kevin Corbett

Victor Corces

Amandine Cornille

Hector Corrada Bravo

Brian Cosgrove

Hélène C. F. Côté

Chris Cotsapas

Aedin Culhane

Henry Daniell

Mark Davies

Melissa Davis

Michelle Daya

Wei De

Wouter De Coster

Dick De Ridder

John De Vos

Elzo De Wit

Ann Dean

Prescott Deininger

Tom Delmont

Ke Deng

Tushar Desai

Colin Dewey

Marco Di Antonio

Aaron Diaz

Christoph Dieterich

Stephen Difazio

Alex Dilthey

Robin Dowell

Mikhail Dozmorov

Finn Drabløs

Sorin Draghici

Zhijun Duan

Beth Dumont

Paula Duque

Laurent Duret

Hariharan Easwaran

Mark Ebbert

Birgitta Ebert

Joseph Ecker

Michael Economo

Patrick Edger

Eli Eisenberg

Mohammed El-Kebir

Ran Elkon

Tom Ellis

Laura Elnitski

A. Murat Eren

Florian Erhard

Jason Ernst

David Evans

Longjiang Fan

Jean Fan

Wei Fan

Charles Farber

Maha Farhat

Peggy Farnham

Geoffrey Faulkner

Zhangjun Fei

Jorge Ferrer

Matthew Field

Guillaume Filion

Kyle Fink

Joan Font-Burgada

William Forrest

Samuel Forster

Jean-Philippe Fortin

Nora Franceschini

Lude Franke

Kelly Frazer

Catherine H. Freudenreich

Adam Freund

Saskia Freytag

Marc Friedländer

Rebecca C. Fry

Michaela Frye

Audrey Fu

Takashi Fukaya

Julia Fukuyama

Melissa Fullwood

Migle Gabrielaite

Shobhan Gaddameedhi

Julien Gagneur

Johann Gagnon-Bartsch

Thomas Gaj

Molly Gale Hammell

Feng Gao

Caixia Gao

Manuel Garber

Lana Garmire

Mathew Garnett

David Gatfield

Daniel Gautheret

Geert Geeven

Tamar Geiger

Andrew Gentles

Pavel Georgiev

Naama Geva-Zatorsky

David Gfeller

Chiara Giannarelli

Greg Gibson

Robert Gifford

Abraham Gihawi

Luke Gilbert

Alexandra Gillett

Jesse Gillis

David Gisselsson

Eugene Gladyshev

Daryl Gohl

Jonathon Goke

Rachel Goldfeder

Margaret Goodell

Richard Green

Richard Gregory

Shiv Grewal

Dirk Grimm

Martien Groenen

Briana Gross

Dominic Gruen

Elin Grundberg

Weihua Guan

Michael Guertin

Francois Guillemot

Monika Gulia-Nuss

Yalong Guo

Crisanto Gutierrez

Melissa Gymrek

Brian Haas

Faraz Hach

Florian Halbritter

Bjarni Halldórsson

Eran Halperin

Dali Han

Leng Han

Fangpu Han

Bob Handsaker

Anders Sejr Hansen

Thomas Birkballe Hansen

Kelley Harris

Reuben Harris

Laura Harris

Traver Hart

Chuan He

Yuehui He

Daniel Hebenstreit

Matthias Heinig

Laura Heiser

Martin Hemberg

Javier Herrero

Elisabeth Heuston

Holger Heyn

Isaac Hilton

Joshua Ho

Alan Hodgkinson

Michael Hofreiter

Robert Hogg

James Holt

Chungchau Hon

Farhad Hormozdiari

Fereydoun Hormozdiari

Yu Hou

Jian Hu

Ming Hu

Gangqing Hu

Bo Huang

Frank Huang

Jinling Huang

Jinyan Huang

Yuanhua Huang

Xuehui Huang

Wolfgang Huber

Norbort Hübner

Joseph Hughes

Heather Hundley

Ildoo Hwang

Olivier Hyrien

Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue

Zoya Ignatova

Hae-Kyung Im

Maxim Imakaev

Nicholas Ingolia

Pär Ingvarsson

Iuliana Ionita-Laza

Francesco Iorio

Manuel Irimia

Rafael Irizarry

Shintaro Iwasaki

Vishwanath Iyer

Benjamin Izar

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

Chirag Jain

Miten Jain

Hongkai Ji

Deshui Jia

Lan Jiang

Peng Jiang

Yuchao Jiang

Peng Jin

Victor Jin

Shuangxia Jin

Frank Johannes

Rory Johnson

Martens Joost

Simon Junankar

Florian Jupe

Martin Kampmann

Craig Kaplan

Chantriolnt-Andreas Kapourani

Philipp Kapranov

Evangelos Karousis

Kerstin Kaufmann

Birte Kehr

Sunduz Keles

Manolis Kellis

Janet Kelso

Christina Kendziorski

Scott Kennedy

Michael Kharas

Yoon Ki Kim

Sangwoo Kim

Jop Kind

Martin Kircher

Jorgen Kjems

Jonathan Klassen

Wigard Kloosterman

Puck Knipscheer

Michael Kobor

Devin Koestler

Claudia Köhler

Sergey Koren

Keegan Korthauer

Keegan Korthauer

David Koslicki

Dennis Kostka

Leah Kottyan

W. Lee Kraus

Erik Kristiansson

Gregory Kucherov

Sudhir Kumar

Anshul Kundaje

Anne Kupczok

Gioele La Manno

Ilias Lagkouvardos

Majlinda Lako

Meiyappan Lakshmanan

Ashish Lal

Christian Landry

Ben Langmead

Janine Lasalle

Justin Lathia

Ken Lau

Cicera Lazzarotto

Kim-Anh Lê Cao

Cheng-Ruei Lee

John Lees

Gaelle Legube

Li Lei

Patrick Lemaire

Tineke Lenstra

Christina Leslie

Joost Lesterhuis

Erez Levanon

David Levens

Joshua Levin

Zachary Lewis

Mathew Lewsey

Bin Li

Dali Li

Guoliang Li

Mingyao Li

Bo Li

Fay-Wei Li

Heng Li

Jian-Feng Li

Jingyi Jessica Li

Qing Li

Qingshun Li

Qunhua Li

Wei Li

Wei Li

Xingwang Li

Jun Li

Bo Li

Wei Li

Yifeng Li

Yun Li

Jin Billy Li

Miaoxin Li

Mulin Jun Li

Wenbo Li

Jie Liang

Gangning Liang

Han Liang

Bomyi Lim

Dae-Sik Lim

Howard Lipshitz

Markus List

George Liu

Guang-Hui Liu

Tao Liu

Bo Liu

Chang Liu

Yuchen Liu

Kathy Liu

Qi Liu

Xuanyao Liu

David Liu

Ben Logsdon

Gwen A. Lomberk

Alejandro Lomniczi

Quan Long

Tapio Lönnberg

Per Eystein Lønning

Huiqiang Lou

Michael Love

Robert Lowe

Jian Lu

Chang Lu

Aaron Lun

Joakim Lundeberg

Kaixuan Luo

Dario Lupianez

Alexandra Lusser

Pavlo Lutsik

Renate Lux

David Lynn

Bing Ma

Jian Ma

Lijia Ma

Todd Macfarlan

Joel Mackay

Dixie Mager

Magdy Mahfouz

Shaun Mahony

Vsevolod Makeev

Eugene Makeyev

Prashant Mali

Nilusha Malmuthuge

Scott Manalis

Dinesh Manandhar

Nicholas Mancuso

Serghei Mangul

Gabriel Marais

Jonathan Marchini

Luca Mariani

Urko Marigorta

Florian Markowetz

Ana Marques

Robert Martienssen

German Martinez

Francisco Martinez-Jimenez

Marc Marti-Renom

Martin Mascher

Anthony Mathelier

Matthew Mccall

Davis Mccarthy

Rachel Mccord

Daniel Mcdonald

Chris Mcginnis

James Mcinerney

Paul Medvedev

Alexander Medvinsky

Pall Melsted

Danish Memon

Sebastián Mendoza

Elisabetta Mereu

Juha Merilä

Pieter Mestdagh

Clifford Meyer

Kate Meyer

Kerstin Meyer

Gracjan Michlewski

Karen Miga

Jonathan Mill

Ryan Mills

Aleksandar Milosavljevic

Samuel Minot

Tom Misteli

Danesh Moazed

Karen Mohlke

Christine Moissl-Eichinger

Stephen Montgomery

Rob Moore

Peter Morrell

Samantha Morris

Ashby Morrison

Walter Moss

Sara Mostafavi

Jeffrey Mower

Gary Muehlbauer

Yasuhiro Murakawa

Zander Myburg

Peter Myler

Sean Myles

Hamed Najafabadi

Luay Nakhleh

Do-Hyun Nam

Stephen Nayfach

Daniel Neafsey

Maurine Neiman

Abhinav Nellore

Colm Nestor

Pierre Neveu

Aaron Newman

Binh Nguyen

Ting Ni

Jennifer Nichols

David Nickerson

Francisco E Nicolás

Qing Nie

Chad Niederhuth

Conrad Nieduszynski

Kay Nieselt

Itoshi Nikaido

Yamei Niu

Michael Nodine

Cecilia Noecker

Marcelo Nollmann

James Noonan

Daan Noordermeer

Magnus Nordborg

Henriette O’Geen

Kate O'Connor-Giles

Duncan Odom

Kathryn O'Donnell

Julia Oh

Yukinori Okada

Yaron Orenstein

Gisela Orozco

Rachid Ounit

Ivan Ovcharenko

David Page

Athma Pai

Jorma Palvimo

Panagiotis Papastamoulis

Jordi Paps

Kris Parag

Swati Parekh

Woong-Yang Park

Philippe Pasero

Rob Patro

Bret Pearson

Vicent Pelechano

Jonathan Peled

Minoli Perera

Jose Perez-Ortin

Mihaela Pertea

Jason M Peters

Jan-Michael Peters

Art Petronis

Son Pham

Adam Phillippy

Joanna Phillips

Jean-Yves Pierga

Harold Pimentel

Jeffrey Pollard

Constantin Polychronakos

Chris Ponting

Eleonora Porcu

Odil Porrua

David Posada

Steven Potter

Joseph Powell

Aleix Prat

Diana Proctor

Holger Puchta

Zachary Pursell

Michael Purugganan

Ting Qi

Yiping Qi

Xiaoning Qian

Zhaohui Qin

Kun Qu

Aaron Quinlan

Gerald Quon

Fernando Racimo

Owen Rackham

Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan

François Radvanyi

Laura Raffield

Mosur Raghuraman

Thomas Rattei

Andrea Rau

Terje Raudsepp

Tobias Rausch

David Ray

Cecile Raynaud

Karen Reddy

Juri Reimand

Johannes Reiter

Angela Relógio

Bing Ren

Jian Ren

Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe

Suhn Rhie

Arang Rhie

Phoebe Rice

Stephen Richards

Sara Richter

Isidore Rigoutsos

John Rinn

Davide Risso

Matthew Ritchie

Fernando Rivadeneira

Eric Rivals

Adam Rivers

Francois Robert

Michael Rosenfeld

Frederick Roth

Xavier Roucou

Silvi Rouskin

Amy Rowat

Maga Rowicka

Benjamin Rowland

Jianhua Ruan

Andres Ruiz Linares

Eytan Ruppin

Ivan Rychlik

Kunihiko Sadakane

Wouter Saelens

Maria-Carla Saleh

Leena Salmela

Steven Salzberg

Walter Salzburger

Md. Abul Hassan Samee

Fátima Sánchez-Cabo

Albin Sandelin

Hirak Sarkar

Maureen Sartor

Yorifumi Satou

Leonard Schalkwyk

Ueli Schibler

John Schimenti

Eric Schirmer

Anja Schmidt

Robert Schmitz

Korbinian Schneeberger

Angelika Schnieke

Stefan Schoenfelder

Alexander Schönhuth

Marcel Schulz

Michelle Scott

Maria Secrier

Fritz Sedlazeck

Nicola Segata

Michael Seidl

William Sellers

Colin Semple

Payel Sen

Nicolas Servant

Nenad Sestan

Thomas Sexton

Danelle Seymour

Agnel Sfeir

Adib Shafi

Xiaojian Shao

Mingfu Shao

Igor Sharakhov

Andrew Sharp

Nathan Sheffield

Ekaterina Shelest

Lanlan Shen

Yin Shen

Jay Shendure

Wei Shi

Xiaobing Shi

Yongsheng Shi

Darryl Shibata

Alena Shkumatava

Joshua Shulman

Christopher Sibley

Arend Sidow

Heinz Sill

Lukas Simon

Jared Simpson

Peter Sims

Nadia Singh

Saurabh Sinha

Pontus Skoglund

Peter Smibert

Mark Smyth

Johannes Söding

Harry Sokol

Matthias Soller

Charlotte Soneson

Chun-Qing Song

Doug Speed

Salvatore Spicuglia

Mikhail Spivakov

Nathan Springer

Jason Stajich

Maike Stam

Alexander Stark

Gary Stein

Martin Steinegger

Tim Stevens

Gary Stormo

David Sturgill

Francoise Stutz

Yanni Sun

Fengzhu Sun

Fran Supek

Azim Surani

Mario Suva

Ayako Suzuki

Hiromu Suzuki

Valentine Svensson

Austin Swafford

Maurice Swanson

Anand Swaroop

Dávid Szüts

Amos Tanay

Milos Tanurdzic

Diethard Tautz

Sarah Teichmann

Bhanu Telugu

Andrew Teschendorff

Herve Tettelin

Alexander Teumer

Fabian Theis

Bin Tian

Dacheng Tian

Michael Timko

Winston Timp

Brian Tjaden

Peter Todd

Seiichi Toki

Ian Tomlinson

Eneda Toska

F. William Townes

Zlatko Trajanoski

Tim Triche

Penny Tricker

Marco Trizzino

Didier Trono

Aristotelis Tsirigos

Renee Tsolis

Qiang Tu

Tamir Tuller

Benjamin Tycko

Igor Ulitsky

David Ussery

Dmytro Ustianenko

Catalina Vallejos

David Van Dijk

Eric Van Nostrand

Robert Vanburen

Juan Vaquerizas

Roel Verhaak

Michiel Vermeulen

Sara Vieira-Silva

Benjamin Vincent

Martin Vingron

Pavithra Viswanath

Christine Vogel

Christopher Vollmers

Doris Wagner

Wolfgang Wagner

Carolina Wählby

Chris Wallace

Joern Walter

James Walters

Jun Wan

Yue Wan

Kejian Wang

Liangjiang Wang

Siyuan Wang

Ting Wang

Wei Wang

Xiyin Wang

Y. Alan Wang

Daifeng Wang

Jianbin Wang

Jun Wang

Ming-Bo Wang

Wenyi Wang

Kai Wang

Lily Wang

Zefeng Wang

Robert Waterhouse

Robert Waterland

Griffin Weber

Wu Wei

Chaochun Wei

Peng Wei

Arne Weiberg

Zasha Weinberg

Joachim Weischenfeldt

Matthew Weitzman

Ervin Welker

Robert White

Christian Wichmann

Vihandha Wickramasinghe

Marc Wilkins

Rohan Williams

David Williams

Amy Willis

Monte Winslow

Patricia Wittkopp

Naomi Wray

Gavin Wright

Hao Wu

Tao Wu

Chong Wu

Jun Wu

Ruibin Xi

Bo Xia

Xuhua Xia

Xinshu Xiao

Chuanxiao Xie

Jinchuan Xing

Yi Xing

Zhenjiang Xu

Yuanchao Xue

Wen Xue

Nozomu Yachie

Wenhao Yan

Jianbing Yan

Bei Yang

Li Yang

Lixing Yang

Fang Yang

Lei Yang

Pengyi Yang

Rendong Yang

Jian Yang

Jian-Hua Yang

Shaohua Yao

Gurkan Yardimci

Moran Yassour

John Yates

Gene Yeo

Ali Yesilkanal

Chengqi Yi

Kevin Yip

Sang Sun Yoon

Nir Yosef

Guo-Cheng Yuan

Feng Yue

Ryan Yuen

Anthony Zannas

Mihaela Zavolan

Philip Zegerman

Daniel Zerbino

Weiwei Zhai

Chaolin Zhang

Jinghui Zhang

Kun Zhang

Runxuan Zhang

Zemin Zhang

Heng Zhang

Jiangwen Zhang

Jianzhi Zhang

Liangsheng Zhang

Michael Q Zhang

Qiangfeng Zhang

Shihua Zhang

Ni Zhao

Yingming Zhao

Houfeng Zheng

Siyuan Zheng

Wanding Zhou

Xiaobo Zhou

Shengtao Zhou

Xianghong Zhou

Yuan Zhou

Jian Zhou

Xiang Zhou

Hao Zhu

Hongtu Zhu

Bing Zhu

Jun Zhu

Yuxian Zhu

Jian-Kang Zhu

Shanfeng Zhu

Justin Zook

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    12.3 - 2-year Impact Factor
    17.4 - 5-year Impact Factor
    3.476 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    9.249 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    21 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    277 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    6,688,476 downloads
    12,515 Altmetric mentions

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