Thank You to Our 2024 Reviewers and Volunteers

Abstract

At JGR: Planets, the peer review process is critical to ensuring that the published articles are based on sound scientific principles, follow state-of-the-art techniques while acknowledging relevant prior results, and present exciting discoveries or novel understanding of the fundamental processes that affect solar system objects. JGR: Planets covers a broad range of topics addressing every aspect of geoscience with the only requirement that the work addresses planetary processes. The wide breadth of topics published is reflected by our editorial team composed in 2024 of associate editors Adrian Brown, Jun Cui, Joel Davis, Leigh Fletcher, Sierra Ferguson, Yang Liu, Ananya Mallik, Germán Martínez, Anna Mittelholz, Molly McCanta, Katarina Miljkovic, Naomi Murdoch, Ryan Park, Arianna Piccialli, Laura Schaefer, Mariek Schmidt, Yasuhito Sekine, Kelsi Singer, Michael Sori, Norihiko Sugimoto, Jamey Szalay, David Trang, and Zhiyong Xiao in addition to the editors who authored this note. We rely on the expertise of the community to vet the articles submitted to the journal. In 2024, JGR: Planets benefited from 1,269 reviews provided by 816 unique volunteer referees. We also received help from organizers and guest editors working on eight active special collections. To these volunteers: We are truly grateful that you chose to dedicate your time and energy to evaluate manuscripts and to advise us on the suitability of each manuscript for JGR: Planets, often suggesting ways to improve the papers. We know that all our volunteers juggle many duties, both professional and personal. On behalf of the entire editorial board of JGR: Planets, we express our heartfelt gratitude to the many scientists who support this journal. Thank you! You are performing a valued service to this journal and to the community.