TY - JOUR T1 - Honouring top reviewers, and what makes a great peer review? JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 1 LP - 1 DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052833 VL - 25 IS - 1 AU - Ruth E Malone Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/25/1/1.abstract N2 - In this issue, we recognise the important contributions of a generally invisible group whose unpaid and too-often unheralded work is critical to the journal: Tobacco Control's pool of peer reviewers. Each of the individuals listed below has provided a service to his or her colleagues that helped improve their work—many times in remarkable and unanticipated ways. No matter how carefully we do our research, no matter how clear we try to be in interpreting and reporting it, others often notice things that escaped us entirely. Over many years as a reviewer and editor, I have learned so much from reading reviewers’ comments, including those of the other reviewers on papers I reviewed. It is clear that good work is a community effort, and as editors, we see the very best of that effort and its results.To encourage even more of it, this year for the first time we are recognising eight outstanding reviewers. These individuals were selected by the senior editorial team because they have consistently submitted excellent work on multiple reviews, often reading multiple iterations of manuscripts, and in some cases working directly with authors to help them improve. The honorees include very senior researchers and rising stars; their collective expertise spans various disciplines and research methods as well as policy analysis and public health advocacy. Their respectful, … ER -