Greetings and Happy New Year,
Thank you for your help in 2017 as a reviewer for Global Change Biology.
Support from you and others are a key part of the journal’s success. GCB continues to go from strength to strength. Our Impact Factor is 8.502 and Journal Citation Reports® ranks GCB as the top journal in Biodiversity Conservation and it continues to list among the top journals in Environmental Sciences (5/229) and Ecology (6/153). This shows that reviewers such as you are helping us to select the best for publication.
2017 was GCB’s 23rd year. We are striving to continue to improve the experience, further decreasing average decision times (now 42 days for reviewed manuscripts) and time from acceptance to publication. This is due, in part, to your work for the journal. We are also maintaining our social media presence through Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and feature graphic abstracts on our webpage. GCB accepts Reports, Editorial Commentaries, Opinions, Letters to the Editor, Primary Research Articles, Technical Advances, and Research Reviews.
As outlined above, our reviewers are a major part of the journal’s success. On behalf of the Editors of Global Change Biology, we thank you for sharing your expertise in the field, and helping to make GCB a premier journal in climate change research and discussion.
Thank you again for all you have done for Global Change Biology in 2017.
Yours truly,
Steve Long, Chief Editor and on behalf of the Editors of GCB:
Maria Byrne, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Richard Conant, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
M. Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Sue Hartley, University of York, UK
Paul Hanson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Ivan Janssens, University of Antwerp, Belgium
T. Hefin Jones, Cardiff University, UK
Michael Jones, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
Miko Kirschbaum, Landcare Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand
David Lobell, Stanford University, CA, USA
Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Richard Pearson, University College London, London, UK
Josep Peñuelas, CREAF-CSIC Barcelona, Spain'
Shilong Piao, Peking University, China
Sharon Robinson, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Rowan Sage, University of Toronto, Canada
David J. Smith, University of Essex, UK
Peter Smith, University of Aberdeen, UK
David J. Suggett, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Stephen J. Thackeray, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
Marcel E. Visser, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
