TY - JOUR T1 - 2019 Reviewers of the Year: improving the quality of the journal and the field JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 1 LP - 2 DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055536 VL - 29 IS - 1 AU - Ruth E Malone Y1 - 2020/01/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/29/1/1.abstract N2 - As we try to do each year in an early issue, we honour peer reviewers who go above and beyond in their contributions to the journal and the field by naming them as Reviewers of the Year. The glory is fleeting and the reward, an electronic subscription to Tobacco Control, lasts only 1 year, but the benefits of their work are incalculable and lasting. Nominated by one or more of our senior editorial team, each of the individuals named below has taken to heart the responsibility of a peer reviewer to be both critical and constructive, helping authors move their work to the next level.Peer reviewing is a skill, takes time to do well, and not everyone takes it seriously. Short of repeated refusals to review at all, there is nothing more disconcerting for an editor than to receive a one-sentence or two-sentence review that says something equivalent to ‘good paper’ or ‘bad paper’. Such reviews are meaningless to us, unhelpful to authors, and an abdication of scholars’ and scientists’ commitment to their field. Further, they reflect poorly on one’s scientific engagement with the field. Such remiss reviewers have often themselves benefited previously from the contributions of others to … ER -