A Big Thank You to our Reviewers in the Past Year!

Good reviewers are essential to the success of any journal and peer review is a major pillar of science. We are grateful to those mentioned below to have dedicated their time and expertise to help our authors improve and refine their manuscripts and support the Editor(s) in the decision making process in the past year.

The following received out Top Reviewer of the Year award:

Peggy Sfyri, United Kingdom
Jeremy Paul Loenneke, United States
Ana Padrão, Portugal
David Scully, United Kingdom

We wish all our readers, reviewers, authors and friends a happy and prosperous new year!

Professor José Alberto Duarte
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Sports Medicine
Georg Thieme Verlag Publisher

Amr Almaz Abdel-aziem, Egypt
Salma Abdelmalek, Tunisia
Takashi Abe, United States
Kamil Abidalhussain Aboshkair, Malaysia
Jeroen Aeles, Australia
Harbeer Ahedi, United States
Ayoola Ibifubara Aiyegbusi, Nigeria
R Akagi, United States
Ryota Akagi, Japan
Firat Akca, Turkey
Takayuki Akimoto, Japan
Sérgio Augusto Albino Vieira, Brazil
Pedro E Alcaraz, Spain
Luis M Alegre, Spain
Ebru Alp, Turkey
Ibrahim M Altubasi, Jordan
Francisco Alves, Portugal
Mohammed Alwahbi, Saudi Arabia
Achraf Ammar, Tunisia
Winko Wen-Kang An, Hong Kong
William J Anderst, United States
Ricardo J J Andrade, France
Marcin Andrzejewski, Poland
Giosuè Annibalini, Italy
Giuseppe Annino, Italy
Jędrzej Antosiewicz, Poland
Gustavo Gomes Araujo, Brazil
Joamira Pereira Araújo, Brazil
Victor Arce, Spain
Juliano Arcuri, Brazil
Giannis Arnaoutis, Greece
Ahmad Arshi, United Kingdom
Todd Anthony Astorino, United States
Greg Atkinson, United Kingdom
Matt Attwood, United Kingdom
Francisco Ayala, Spain
Fátima Baptista, Portugal
Tiago M Barbosa, Singapore
Alan R Barker, United Kingdom
Leland Barker, United States
V Barkoukis, Greece
Anthony Barnett, United States
Anna Barrero, France
Gene R Barrett, United States
Renato Barroso, Brazil
Stephane Baudry, Belgium
Cory Baumann, United States
Peter Bazira, United Kingdom
Mélanie L Beaulieu, United States
David Behm, Canada
Martin Behrens, Germany
Thomas Beltrame, Brazil
Nicholas Beltz, United States
Mike Bennett, Australia
Melissa J Benton, United States
Haley C Bergstrom, United States
Marcel Betsch, United States
Ramin Beyranvand, Iran
Dharini Bhammar, United States
AJ Bidwell, United States
Marie Faruch Bilfeld, United States
Francois Billaut, Canada
Cristina Blasco-Lafarga, Spain
Linda Bobo, United States
Danilo Sales Bocalini, Brazil
Gregory C Bogdanis, Greece
Lucimere Bohn, Portugal
Valéria Bonganha, Brazil
Fernanda Borges, Brazil
Juliana Borges, Brazil
Fransiska Marie Bossuyt, United Kingdom
Michal Botek, Czech Republic
Cíntia Ehlers Botton, Brazil
Daniel Alexandre Boullosa, Brazil
Jose Augusto Bragada, Portugal
Allison Brager, United States
William Braun, United States
James William Bray, United Kingdom
Adam Brazil, United Kingdom
Trey Brindle, United States
S Broadbent, Australia
Franck Brocherie, France
Allison Brown, United States
Pavel Broz, Czech Republic
Jean-Frederic Brun, France
Jennifer Bunn, United States
Pasqualina Buono, Italy
Nathalie J Bureau, United States
Carlos Burgos-Jara, Chile
Patrizia Burra, United States
Raquel Burrows, United States
Jane E Butler, Australia
Timothy A Butterfield, United States
Jaclyn Caccese, United States
Cristina Cadenas-Sánchez, Spain
Hayriye Cakir Atabek, Turkey
Edward Cambridge, Canada
Clayton L Camic, United States
John Campbell, United Kingdom
Jefferson R Cardoso, Brazil
John Francis Caruso, United States
Alice Carvalhais, Portugal
Celso Ricardo Fernandes Carvalho, Brazil
Michela Casella, United States
Shih-Chung Cheng, Taiwan
Kentaro Chino, Japan
Oliver Chrzanowski-Smith, United Kingdom
Hamdi Chtourou, Tunisia
AHY Chu, United States
Danilo Cialoni, Italy
Anthony Ciccone, United States
Bruna Thamyres Ciccotti Saraiva, Brazil
Vicente J Clemente-Suarez, Spain
Darryl J Cochrane, New Zealand
Emma Joanne Cockcroft, United Kingdom
Eliza Prodel Coelho, Brazil
Sigal Ben-Zaken Cohen, United States
Serap Colak, Turkey
Carole Cometti, France
Daniele Conte, Lithuania
Giuseppe Coratella, Italy
Domenico Corrado, Italy
Ana Cristina Corrêa Figueira, Portugal
Marilia Correia, Brazil
Anselmo de Athayde Costa e Silva, Brazil
James D Cotter, New Zealand
Maarten Cruyff, Netherlands
SarahJane Cullen, Ireland
Adam G Culvenor, Australia
Brian Cunniffe, United Kingdom
Lisa Custer, United States
Claudineia Conationi da Silva Franco, Brazil
Lance Dalleck, United States
Abdolhamid Daneshjoo, Malaysia
Scott J Dankel, United States
Ellen Adele Dawson, United Kingdom
Rodrigo Cappato de Araujo, Brazil
Johan Anthonius de Bruijn, Netherlands
Luciana De Michelis, Brasil
Mark De Ste Croix, United Kingdom
Wouter R de Vries, Netherlands
John K De Witt, United States
Tadej Debevec, Slovenia
Hans Degens, United Kingdom
Firouzeh Dehghan, Malaysia
Arne Deiseroth, Switzerland
José Luis Delgado, Portugal
Antonio Dello Russo, Italy
Joshua Denham, Australia
Gavin Devereux, United States
Terry DeWitt, United States
F Di Nardo, Italy
Tommaso R di Sarsina, Italy
Alek Diffendaffer, United States
Massimiliano Ditroilo, Ireland
Greg Doncaster, United Kingdom
Luke Donovan, United States
Ofer Doron, Israel
Keyla Mara Dos Santos, Brazil
Patrik Drid, United States
José Alberto Duarte, Portugal
Peter Dueking, United States
Halil Duzova, Turkey
Pascal Edouard, France
Brent Edwards, Canada
Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub, France
Louise Engelbrecht, United States
Kristan Erdmann, United States
Kristine M Erlandson, United States
João Espregueira-Mendes, Portugal
Elizabeth S Evans, United States
Rachael A Evans, United States
Nir Eynon, Australia
Nazzareno Fagoni, Italy
Paulo de Tarso Veras Farinatti, Brazil
J Brent Feland, United States
Jonathan SJ Fenner, United Kingdom
Derek D Ferley, United States
Ricardo J Fernandes, Portugal
Valentin E Fernandez-Elias, Spain
Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo, Sweden
Travis Ficklin, United States
Aharon S Finestone, Israel
James Fisher, United Kingdom
John Schneider Fitzgerald, United States
Jared Fletcher, Canada
Pablo Floria, Spain
Helder Fonseca, Portugal
Marco Fonseca, Portugal
Claudia Lucia de Moraes Forjaz, Brazil
Damiano Formenti, Italy
Emerson Franchini, Brazil
Monica Frinchi, Italy
Chiho Fukusaki, Japan
Laura-Anne Marie Furlong, United Kingdom
Tim J Gabbett, Australia
DA Gabriel, Canada
Amador García Ramos, Spain
Wolf Gawin, Germany
Paulo Gentil, Brazil
Natasa Giallourou, United Kingdom
Christoforos D Giannaki, Cyprus
Nathan Gibbs, United States
Beshoy Girgis, Portugal
Claudio Alexandre Gobatto, Brazil
Debora Godoy-Izquierdo, United States
Karla Fabiana Goessler, Brazil
Gary Goldish, United States
Igor Lucas Gomes-Santos, Brazil
Joaquin U Gonzales, United States
Eric Goulet, Canada
Camila Coelho Greco, Brazil
Michael S Green, United States
Fergus Michael Guppy, United Kingdom
Samuel Haag, United States
Daniel Allen Hackett, Australia
Jocelyn Hafer, United States
James Hagberg, United States
Magdaléna Hagovská, Slovakia
Masahide Hamaguchi, United States
Joe Hamill, United States
Jae-Young Han, The Republic of Korea
Brian Hanley, United Kingdom
Helmuth Haslacher, Austria
Jeremy Hawkins, United States
Lawrence D Hayes, United Kingdom
Souhail Hermassi, Qatar
Carlos Hernando, Spain
Garrett Hester, United States
John M Higgins, United States
Mike Hiley, United Kingdom
Kuniaki Hirayama, Japan
Daniel Hiscock, United States
Lynette Hodges, New Zealand
S Hody, Belgium
Martin D Hoffman, United States
Peter Hofmann, Austria
Hans-Christer Holmberg, Sweden
Matthias Wilhelm Hoppe, Germany
David Howell, United States
CJ Huang, United States
Christopher Hurst, United Kingdom
Motoyuki Iemitsu, Japan
Eliseo Iglesias-Soler, Spain
Aleksandar M Ignjatovic, United States
J Ihalainen, Finland
Atsushi Imai, Japan
Andreas Ivarsson, Sweden
Damian Janecki, United States
Kelly de Jesus, Portugal
Pedro Jimenez-Reyes, Spain
Mohamed Chedly Jlid, Tunisia
Simon A Jobson, United Kingdom
Lachlan Johnston, Australia
Fawzi Kadi, Sweden
Yasushi Kariyama, Japan
Tegan Emma Kastelein, Australia
Emika Kato, Japan
Andreas Kavazis, United States
Keisuke Kawata, United States
Daniel Keir, Canada
Aaron Kelly, United States
Sarah Kenny, United States
Naoki Kikuchi, Japan
Matthew A Kilgas, United States
Kyoungrae Kim, United States
Katia Kitamura, Brazil
Valery Kleshnev, United Kingdom
Allan Kluser, Brazil
Andrzej Klusiewicz, Poland
Beat Knechtle, Switzerland
Takumi Kobayashi, Japan
Yuji Kobayashi, Japan
Yusuf Köklu, Turkey
Pui Wah Kong, Singapore
Anna Konstantinidou, Greece
Jessica Koschate, Germany
Nikolaos Koutlianos, Greece
Mauricio Krause, Brazil
Jakub Krejčí, Czech Republic
Micahel Kushnick, United States
Krzysztof Kusy, Poland
Susan Kwiecien, United States
Giuseppe Labruna, Italy
Mary-Jessica Nancy Laguette, South Africa
Kenneth C Lam, United States
Rebecca Lambach, United States
Martin Lames, Germany
Thomas Lapole, France
Robyn Larsen, Australia
Eneko Larumbe-Zabala, United States
Lillebeth Larun, Norway
Pedro Ángel Latorre, Spain
John J Leddy, United States
C Matthew Lee, United States
Anthony Scott Leicht, Australia
Christof A Leicht, United Kingdom
Romuald Lepers, France
Adam S Lepley, United States
Mari Leppänen, Finland
Juhana Leppilahti, Finland
Pamela Levangie, United States
Oron Levin, United States
Le Li, China
Cheng-Feng Lin, Taiwan
Wan-Teng Lin, Taiwan
Fábio Lira, Brazil
Caroline Lisee, United States
Jeremy Paul Loenneke, United States
Irineu Loturco, Brazil
Alejandro Lucia, Spain
Rogerio Luz Coelho, Brazil
Katie Lyman, United States
Robert Lynall, United States
Norbert Maassen, Germany
Leandro Machado, Portugal
Agnieszka Maciejewska-Karlowska, Poland
Leif Philip Madsen, United States
Sumiaki Maeo, Japan
Priscilla Maghrabi, United States
Luana C Main, Australia
Elisabetta Marini, Italy
Moacir Marocolo, Brazil
Sergio Maroto-Izquierdo, Spain
Maurizio Marra, Italy
Otoniel Martinez-Maza, United States
Simon Marwood, United Kingdom
Myosotis Massidda, Italy
Gunnar Elling Mathisen, Norway
Antonios Matsakas, United Kingdom
S Matsui, United States
Shingo Matsuo, Japan
S Mayes, Australia
Melitta McNarry, United Kingdom
Yoav Meckel, Israel
Carlos Medina, Spain
Goncalo V Mendonca, Portugal
Alessandro Mengarelli, Italy
Richard Metcalfe, United Kingdom
Gregory Meyer, France
Tim Meyer, Germany
Karen Mickle, Australia
Monique Middlekauf, United States
Zoran Milanovic, Serbia
Matthew C Miller, New Zealand
Vincent Miller, United States
Gregoire P Millet, Switzerland
Luciele Guerra Minuzzi, Portugal
Dragan M Mirkov, Serbia
Rob Mitchell, United Kingdom
Hajime Miura, Japan
Tetsuro Miyazaki, Japan
Wassim Moalla, Tunisia
Gavin Moir, United States
Johan Molenbroek, Netherlands
Guilherme Eckhardt Molina, Brazil
Cristina P Monteiro, Portugal
Rocio Montejo, Spain
Renato Moraes, Brazil
Colin Moran, United Kingdom
Alexandre Moreira, Brazil
Veridiana Mota Moreira, Brazil
M Z Morgan, United Kingdom
Jean Morin, France
Jean-Benoit Morin, France
John G Morris, United Kingdom
Robert Morton, Canada
J Grant Mouser, United States
Vladimir Mrdaković, Serbia
Diego Munguia-Izquierdo, Spain
Claus-Martin Muth, Germany
A K Mykkanen, Finland
Jonathan Mynard, Australia
Fernando Naclerio, United Kingdom
Ryu Nagahara, Japan
Fábio Yuzo Nakamura, Brazil
Christopher Napier, Canada
Cristina Naranjo-Ortiz, Spain
Konstantinos Natsis, Greece
Robert J Naughton, United Kingdom
James Wilfred Navalta, United States
Lindsay Nelson, United States
Eduardo Borba Neves, Brazil
Jinlei Nie, China
Michalis G Nikolaidis, Greece
Pantelis Theodoros Nikolaidis, Greece
Y Nishikawa, Japan
Paul Nolan, Australia
Nikolai Baastrup Nordsborg, Denmark
Ken Kazunori Nosaka, Australia
Lazaro Nunes, Brazil
Donal J O'Gorman, United States
John O'Hara, United States
Takanobu Okamoto, Japan
Jonathan Oliver, United States
Christine Olney, United States
Tatiana Onofre, Brazil
Vahur Ööpik, Estonia
Jan Roar Orlin, Norway
Ana Padrão, Portugal
Johnny Padulo, Italy
Valéria Leme Gonçalves Pannissa, Brazil
Vassilis Paschalis, Greece
Kramay Patel, Canada
Jose Rodrigo Pauli, United States
Tiago Peçanha, Brazil
Hsien-Te Peng, Taiwan
Lucas A Pereira, Brazil
Oliver Perkin, United Kingdom
Claudio Perret, Switzerland
Fabrizio Perroni, Italy
Andreas Persson, United States
Andrea Petroczi, United Kingdom
Leonardo Alexandre Peyé-Tartaruga, Brazil
Steven Pfeiffer, United States
Maria Francesca Piacentini, Italy
Jessica Piasecki, United Kingdom
Craig Pickering, United Kingdom
Ronei Silveira Pinto, Brazil
Ted Polglaze, Australia
Marcos Doederlein Polito, Brazil
Neal W Pollock, United States
Adam Popchak, United States
Jonato Prestes, Brazil
Michael J Price, United Kingdom
Annika Prien, Germany
Olaf Prieske, Germany
Steve Prior, United States
Priit Purge, Estonia
Marilene Gonçalves Queiroz, Brazil
Ghazi Racil, Tunisia
Krishnakumar Radhakrishnan, India
Rajathi Rajendran, India
Rodrigo Ramirez, Chile
Sushant M Ranadive, United States
Christiana Raymond-Pope, United States
Yotam Raz, United States
Joel Reece, United States
Jonathan Reeser, United States
Franz-Xaver Reichl, Germany
Alvaro Reischak-Oliveira, Brazil
Nicola Susan Relph, United Kingdom
Ezequiel Rey, Spain
Alex Silva Ribeiro, Brazil
Fernando Ribeiro, Portugal
Jose C Ribeiro, Portugal
Ian Rice, United States
Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias, Brazil
Andrew Roberts, United States
Simon Paul Roberts, United Kingdom
Renato Rodano, Italy
David Rodríguez-Ruiz, Spain
Maria Urbana Pinto Brandão Rondon, Brazil
Erica Carine Campos Caldas Rosa, Brazil
Adam Rosen, United States
Scott E Ross, United States
Brendon H Roxburgh, New Zealand
Ana Ruiz-Casado, Spain
Michael C Rumpf, United States
Atle Saeterbakken, Norway
Craig Sale, United Kingdom
Desy Salvadego, Italy
Josep Sánchez-Malagón, Spain
Joaquin Sanchis-Moysi, Spain
Øyvind Sandbakk, Norway
Dajo Sanders, United Kingdom
José Augusto Rodrigues Santos, Portugal
Kazushige Sasaki, Japan
Brandon J Sawyer, United States
Paolo Schiavi, Italy
Holger Schmitt, Germany
Brad Jon Schoenfeld, United States
Patrick PJM Schoenmakers, United Kingdom
David Scully, United Kingdom
Duc Sebastien, France
Joost PH Seeger, Netherlands
Marco Seijo, United Kingdom
Mallory A Sell, United States
Sergio Selles Pérez, Spain
Peggy Sfyri, United Kingdom
Sanjay Sharma, United Kingdom
David Shaw, New Zealand
Sam O Shepherd, United Kingdom
Yohei Shimokochi, Japan
Kevin Short, United States
Ana Silva, Portugal
João Renato Silva, Portugal
Andrew Simpson, United Kingdom
Bostjan Simunic, Slovenia
Peter Sinclair, Australia
Vibha Singhal, United States
Ian Skinner, Australia
James Skinner, United States
Knut Skovereng, Norway
Jean Slawinski, France
Abbie Smith, United States
James M Smoliga, United States
Rogerio Soares, Canada
Jarle Løwe Sørensen, Norway
Alberto Soriano-Maldonado, Spain
Michael T Soucy, United States
Ana Catarina Sousa, Portugal
Markus Vinicius Campos Souza, Brazil
Mike Stembridge, United Kingdom
Holly Stock, United Kingdom
F Stoecker, Germany
Eric J Stohr, United States
Keith A Stokes, United Kingdom
Jun Sugawara, Japan
Dai Sugimoto, United States
John S Sullivan, United States
Guang Sun, Canada
Peng Sun, China
Giovanni Tanda, Italy
David Tanner, United States
Pedro Tauler Riera, Spain
Uwe Tegtbur, Germany
Elmarie Terblanche, South Africa
Apostolos Theos, Sweden
Scott G Thomas, Canada
Peter M Tiidus, Canada
Kevin Till, United Kingdom
YASUDA Tomohiro, Japan
Claudio Tondo, Italy
Javaloyes Torres, Spain
Rui Torres, Portugal
Nobuyuki Toshikuni, Japan
J O Totosy de Zepetnek, Canada
Argyris G Toubekis, Greece
Gunnar Treff, Germany
Christoph Triska, Austria
Athanasios Tsoukos, Greece
James Turner, United Kingdom
Craig Twist, United Kingdom
Carlos Ugrinowitsch, Brazil
J Uhring, United States
Vish Unnithan, United Kingdom
Roland van den Tillaar, Norway
Nick van der Horst, Netherlands
Gary Van Guilder, United States
Pat Vehrs, United States
Sandrine Verpoorten, United Kingdom
Rui Antunes Viana, Portugal
Rodolfo Paula Vieira, Brazil
Joao Paulo Vilas Boas, Portugal
Emilio Villa-González, Ecuador
Judy Villavicencio, United States
Agnes Vinet, France
Ginés Viscor, Spain
Hans von Lieres, United Kingdom
Simon Walker, Finland
Gareth Anthony A Wallis, United Kingdom
Jun-Song Wang, United States
Eileen M Wanke, Germany
S Wark, United States
Stuart Warmington, Australia
Joe Warne, Ireland
Kohei Watanabe, Japan
Melinda Watts, United States
Ryan Michael Weatherwax, United States
Sandra Webber, Canada
Karen Welman, South Africa
Courtney M Wheatley, United States
Sarah Whitehead, United Kingdom
Catherine Wild, United States
Eurico Nestor Wilhelm, Brazil
Matthias Wilhelm, United States
Matt Wilkes, United Kingdom
Brian M Williams, United States
Sean Williams, United Kingdom
Steffen Willwacher, Germany
Brooke Winder, United States
Wanja Wolf, Germany
Carl Woods, Australia
Zheng Wu, China
Laura Wyatt, United Kingdom
Matthew Alexander Wyon, United Kingdom
Brandon Yates, United States
Hasan Yavuz, United States
Xin Ye, United States
Toshinori Yoshihara, Japan
Michael Zabala, United States
Luciana Zaccagni, Italy
Alessandro Moura Zagatto, Brazil
Julia Zakrzewski-Fruer, United States
Nikolaos Zaras, Greece
Astrid Zech, Germany
Antonio Zerati, Brasil
X Zheng, China
Weili Zhu, China
Philipp Zimmer, Germany
Hassane Zouhal, France