Reviewers for The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

We would like to extend our most sincere thanks to all the 196 reviewers listed below.

They all have voluntarily contributed to the quality of this journal by performing reviews upon invitation in the year 2018, both for The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon (ThCVS) and The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports (ThCVS Reports). Their dedication is essential for keeping the high standards of our bilaterally blinded peer-review process which may sometimes seem cumbersome but is worth it.

A total of 178 reviewers reviewed for the main journal only, eight for the ThCVS Reports only, and 10 for both. Again, we welcome several newcomers, who were invited for the first time, accepted to collaborate and continue to do so. This helps to distribute the workload upon as many shoulders as possible.

Our reviewers share most of the burdens but only a few of the pleasures which editing a scientific journal implies. This modest “thank you” from the societies, the editorial staff, and the publisher is meant to serve as an acknowledgment of your services. Moreover, Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Group has partnered with “Publons” to facilitate official recognition and credit for contributions to peer review.

We hope everybody will continue to support us in 2019.

Tobias Achenbach

Hermann Aebert

Johannes Albes

Martin Andreas

Manuel de Jesus Antunes

Florian Augustin

Rüdiger Autschbach

Georg Bachmann

Matthias Bechtel

Sören Becker

Andreas Beckmann

Christoph Benk

Safet Beqiri

Alexander Bernhardt

Thomas V. Bilfinger

Sabine Bleiziffer

Johannes Bodner

Udo Boeken

Dietmar Boethig

Servet Bölükbas

Nikolaos Bonaros

Andreas Böning

Ozlem Boybeyi

Roland Brandt

Dirk Buchwald

Heiko Burger

Antonio Calafiore

Roman Carbon

Thierry P. Carrel

Roderick Chalmers

Yeong-Hoon Choi

Thomas Christensen

Julie Cleuziou

Lenard Conradi

Martin Czerny

Piroze Davierwala

Miguel De Gregorio Ariza

Stefanos Demertzis

Heinz Deschka

Oliver Dewald

Stefan Dhein

Anno Diegeler

Daniel Dirkmann

Torsten Doenst

Guido Dohmen

Nicolas Doll

Bernhard Dorweiler

Friedrich Eckstein

Stephan Eggeling

Fabian Emrich

Ina Ennker

Stephan Ensminger

Michael Erb

Rick Esposito

Kathleen Fenton

Theodor Fischlein

Felix Fleißner

Thomas Frauenfelder

Buntaro Fujita

Henning Gaissert

Brigitte Gansera

Philipp Gehwolf

Stephan Geidel

Thamer Ghazy

Evaldas Girdauskas

Hagen Gorki

Roman Gottardi

Julia Götte

Martin Grabenwöger

Jan Grandjean

Philippe Grieshaber

Peter Grimminger

Christina Grothusen

Herko Grubitzsch

Werner Haberbosch

Ulrich Hake

Assad Haneya

Lorenz Hansen

Martin Hartrumpf

Christian Heim

Markus Heinemann

Khosro Hekmat

Wolfgang Hemmer

Matthias Heringlake

Markus Hirschburger

Andreas Hoffmeier

Hans-Stefan Hofmann

Samuel Howitt

Martin Hürtgen

Ilkka Ilonen

Yoshimi Iwanuma

Klaus Kallenbach

Matthias Karck

Fabian A. Kari

Matthew Kaufman

Renate Kaulitz

Thomas Kiefer

Dalokay Kilic

Andreas Kirschbaum

Christian Klink

Thomas Kuntze

Ludwig Lampl

Luke Leenen

Gunda Leschber

Yijiang Li

Oliver J. Liakopoulos

Peter Licht

Filippo Lococo

Tsvetomir Loukanov

Yuho Maki

Sven Martens

Malek Massad

Klaus Matschke

Peter Matt

Patrick Meybohm

Matthias Miederer

Martin Misfeld

Shinji Miyamoto

Rainer Moosdorf

Luiz Moreira Felipe

Anton Moritz

Ludwig Müller

Michael Müller Rolf

Achim Neufang

Georg Nickenig

Bernd Niemann

Thilo Noack

Kazunori Okabe

Masamichi Ono

Erik Ortmann

Thomas Paul

Mate Petricevic

Alexander Petter-Puchner

Bettina Pfannmueller

Joachim Pfannschmidt

Joachim Photiadis

Sebastian Pleger

Christian Probst

Ata Rajabnejad'ollah

Ardawan Rastan

Wilko Reents

Christian Reeps

Hermann Reichenspurner

David Reineke

Diana Reser

Oliver Reuthebuch

Friedrich Riess Christian

Francis Robicsek

Thomas Rostock

Peter Roth

Bartosz Rylski

Jarmo Salo

Eugen Sandica

Thomas Schachner

Hans-Joachim Schäfers

Wolfgang Schiller

Christoph Schimmer

Ehrenfried Schindler

Bettina Schlolaut

Christof Schmid

Johannes Schmidt

Michael Schmoeckel

Paul Schneider

Friedrich Schoendube

Alexandra Schramm

Stefan Schulz-Drost

Michael Schwarzer

Miriam Silaschi

Nicodème Sinzobahamvya

Horia Sirbu

Christian Skrabal

Jan Spillner

Volker Steger

Brigitte Stiller

Erich Stoelben

Jeanette Strametz-Juranek

Simon Sündermann

Peter Tassani-Prell

Alper Toker

Georg Trummer

Klaus Valeske

Arnaud Van Linden

Dirk Van Raemdonck

Sebastian Vogt

Thomas Walther

Wolfgang Wandschneider

Stefan Watzka

Barbara Weckler

Tobias Welte

Stefan Welter

Hans Peter Wendel

Daniel Wendt

Songping Xie

Hiromasa Yamamoto

Charles Yankah

Haibo Zhang