Skip to main content

Reviewer acknowledgements 2018

The editors and staff of BMC Surgery would like to warmly thank the reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts in Volume 18 (2018)

Michalopoulos A. Antonios

Danijel A. Galun

Eirik Aahlin

Emad Abdallah

Shalimar Abdullah

Awale Abdullahi

Stefan Acosta

A. R. Adesunkanmi

Laszlo Agocs

Tommaso Agostini

Ferdinando Agresta

Jose Luis Aguayo Albasini

Faiz Ahmad

Michael Akbar

Tevfik Ilker Akcam

Takashi Akiyoshi

Garba Aliou

Marco Allaix

Robert Allen

Niccolo Allievi

Donato Altomare

E. Aly

Ciro Andolfi

Andreas Andreou

Luca Ansaloni

Stavros Antoniou

Elena Arabadzhieva

Francesco Ardito

Ojan Assadian

Ziad Audat

Rebecca Auer

Paolo Aurello

Andreas Bakoyiannis(Bakogiannis)

Arjun Ballal

Tivadar Bara

Louise Barbier

Dirk Bausch

Guido Beldi

Luca Bertolaccini

Mihailo Bezmarevic

Lorenzo Bianchi

Roland Biber

Antonio Biondi

Arianna Birindelli

Flemming Bjerrum

Frank W. Bloemers

M. A. Boermeester

Hugo Bonatti

Yves Borbély

Giuseppe Borzellino

Florin Botea

Umberto Bracale

Stefan Breitenstein

Thomas Brenn

Tim Bright

Danilo Buca

Joseph F. Buell

Pietro Giorgio Calo

Fabio Cesare Campanile

Riccardo Campi

Jessica Cardenas

Joseph C. Carmichael

Elisa Cassinotti

Christoph Castellani

Patrizio Castelli

Ali Çelik

Marco Ceresoli

Kin Wai Edwin Chan

Abhijit Chandra

Stephen Chapman

Jason Pui Yin Cheung

Harvey Chim

Christopher Christophi

Enrico Cieri

Roberto Cirocchi

William Sinton Cobb

Federico Coccolini

Andrew Cockbain

Joshua Cohn

Claudius Conrad

Giovanni Conzo

Andrea Coratti

Erin Cordeiro

Mario Costantini

Valerio Cozza

Alessandro Crestani

Attila Csekeo

Sushobhan Dasgupta

Maurits De Brauw

Carmela De Crea

Rossella De Leo

Philip De Reuver

Rohana De Silva

Paolo Del Rio

Teyfik Demir

Timm Denecke

Margherita Dessole

Francesco Di Capua

Isidoro Di Carlo

Graziella - Di Grezia

Smaranda Diaconescu

Hooman Djaladat

Gianluca Donatini

Turgut Donmez

Sylvain Doré

Amish Doshi

Nigel Drury

Anahita Dua

Arnaud Dubory

Traian Dumitrascu

Kristoffel R. Dumon

Robert Dziedzic

Radan Dzodic

Seracettin Egin

John Elfar

Sameh Emile

Ahmet Eminler

Cherie Erkmen

Consten C J Esther

Heather Evans

Medved Fabian

Rene Fahrner

Mark Fairweather

Alessandro Fancellu

Mohamed E. Farid

David R. Farley

Jean-Luc Faucheron

Mariano Fernández-Fairén

Paula Ferrada

Cristian Fiori

Sebastian Fischer

Marco Fisichella

Jessica Forcillo

Pietro Forestieri

Gustavo Fraga

Cornelia Frei

Paola Fugazzola

Masahide Fukaya

Claudio Gambardella

Jonathan Gates

Arthur Gatti

Olivier Gie

Giorgio Ginesu

Octav Ginghina

Jan-Erik Gjertsen

Robert E. Glasgow

Torben Glatz

Gabriel Glockzin

Ines Gockel

Michel Gonzalez

Salvatore Gruttadauria

Mohamadou Gueye

Laura Guglielmetti

Boris Guiu

Ali Guner

Ulf Gunnarsson

Rahul Gupta

Subhas Gupta

Peter Hahn

David Hak

Nigel J Hall

Julian C. Harnoß

Hobart Harris

Suguru Hasegawa

Muhanad M. Hatamleh

Masakazu Hattori

Manuel Held

A. Hemming

Noriyuki Hirahara

Swapnil Hiremath

Seiko Hirono

Stephen Honeybul

Gary Hooper

Yingqi Hua

Chang-Ming Huang

Donald Anthony Hudson

Maurizio Iaria

Satoshi Ieiri

Mikito Inokuchi

Christos Ioannou

Ali Jafarian

Bhupendra Kumar Jain

Khodamorad Jamshidi

Yi-Yin Jan

Rosa Jiménez-Rodríguez

Gerd Jomrich

Roth Jonathan

Edward Jones

Mehmet Kafadar

Toshiya Kamiyama

Georgios Kampouroglou

Utku Kandemir

Rishi Mugesh Kanna

Emmanouil Kapetanakis

Bora Karip

Kenji Kawada

Naoki Kawaguchi

Airazat M. Kazaryan

Sungjoo Kim

Min Kim

Hyeunsung Kim

George Kiroff

Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Toshiyuki Kitai

Matthias Knobe

Cemal Kocaaslan

Ferdinand Köckerling

Jonas Kolbenschlag

Angelos Kolias

Makoto Komura

Lilian Kow

Irmgard Kronberger

Yogesh Kumar

Chikara Kunisaki

Simon Küsters

Kenny Yat Hong Kwan

Vincent Lam

Rosaria Laporta

Jari Laurikka

Ryan Jeremy Law

Steven L. Lee

L.P.H. (Luke) Leenen

Ting Lei

Marien Lenoir

Sergey Leshchinskiy

Stephen J Lewis

Hecheng Li

Mike K. Liang

Guiqing Liao

Mario Lima

Cheng-Hung Lin

Philippe Liverneaux

José Lizoáin

Emanuele Lo Menzo

Varut Lohsiriwat

Davide Lomanto

Sofia Lopes

Leyre Lorente Poch

John M. Marzo

Marcel Autran Cesar Machado

Guy Maddern

Michael Maddox

Rodolfo Maduri

Dario Maggioni

Ahmed Makhdoum

Michele Ann Manahan

Antonio Manenti

Luigi Marano

Philippe Massin

Hiroaki Matsumoto

Maurice Matter

Stephen Mcsorley

Diane Mège

Teo Ching Ching Melissa

Emmanuel Melloul

Muhammed Memon

Anastasia Mentessidou

Panu Mentula

Olaf Mercier

Everth Merida

Giovanni Merola

Neil Merrett

Chiarello Michela

Yutaka Midorikawa

Dragan Mijakoski

Marco Milone

Lucas Minig

Jezid Miranda

Petros Mirilas

Ralph J Mobbs

Mecker G. Möller

Maria Francesca Monn

Yoram Mor

Shinichiro Mori

David Mudge

Dhanya Mullassery

Sven Muller

Mario Musella

Silvio Nadalin

Hirdaya Nag

Shigeki Nakagawa

Sameer M Naranje

Dmitri Nepogodiev

Dennis Ng

Giuseppe Nigri

Xiaohui Niu

Hirokazu Noshiro

Lukas Nystrom

Tatsuhiko Ogawa

Atsushi Okawa

Sean Orenstein

Masatoshi Oya

Ali Ozdil

Serdar Özkan

Anand Pandey

Manish Parikh

Ik Seong Park

González Pascual Gemma

Renato Patrone

Michał Pędziwiatr

Julia Pemberton

Pablo Fernandez Penas

Francesco Pennestrì

Marco Petrillo

Niccolo Petrucciani

Alexander H. Petter-Puchner

Massimo Pezzatini

Joshua Pilkington

Daniele Pironi

Bruno Podesser

Zenon Pogorelic

Andrea Polistena

Giuseppe Portale

Shalvin Prasad

Gian Andrea Prevost

Cristian Pultrone

Marco Raffaelli

Sneha Raju

Bruce J. Ramshaw

Lukas Rasulic

Falk Rauchfuss

Markus Rentsch

Henry E. Rice

Sébastien Richard

Philipp Riss

Geoffrey Roberts

Ricardo Robles- Campos

Camiel Rosman

Felix Rückert

Jaime Ruíz-Tóvar

Giovanna Russo

Samira Sadowski

Babak Saedi

Christos Salakos

Pravin Shashikant Salunke

Ozgur Samancilar

Stefano Scabini

Marco Scatizzi

Tobias Schiergens

Hagen Schmal

Beth A. Schrope

Ali Seker

Sabri Selçuk Atamanalp

Jonathan Sembrano

Luca Sessa

Abhijit Shaligram

Katie Sheehan

Aali Sheen

Yinfeng Shen

Cailiang Shen

Alexander Shifrin

Gianfranco Silecchia

Constantinos Simillis

Christopher Soll

Kyo Young Song

Jon Arne Søreide

David Soybel

Giulio Sozzi

Patrick Starlinger

Daniel C Steinemann

Antonio Sterpetti

Stefan Stremitzer

Katsunori Takagi

Lee Tan

Lijie Tan

Benjie Tang

Xiaodong Tang

Pieter J. Tanis

Om Tantia

Francesco Tartaglia

Cihad Tatar

Mikhail Tavobilov

Benjamin C. Taylor

Ezra N. Teitelbaum

Masanori Terashima

George Thompson

Kenneth Thorsen

Binchet Toh

Yasuaki Tokuhashi

Salvatore Tolone

Øresland Tom

Victor Tomulescu

Valeria Tonini

Ana Torres

John Triantafillidis

Markus Trochsler

Konstantinos Tsalis

Masashi Tsuruta

Akif Turna

Hiroo Uchida

Hakan Uzun

Rahul Vaidya

Daniel Vargo

Pascal-André Vendittoli

Massimiliano Veroux

Giuseppe Vizzielli

Daniel Von Allmen

Qiming Wang

Jin Wang

Qiugen Wang

Mark K. Wax

Ulrich Wellner

Steven Wexner

Matthias Wichmann

Desmond Winter

Linda Wong

Yanghee Woo

Ai-Min Wu

Sujia Wu

Hiroharu Yamashita

Lei Yan

Hede Yan

Takao Yasuhara

Reyyan Yildirim

Dong Yin

Shohei Yoshiya

Christopher Young

Kuo-Ching Yuan

Xiuchun Yud

Dimitris Zacharoulis

Sina Zarrintan

Joerg Zehetner

Ziad Zeidan

Longpo Zheng

Joel Zindel

Carmine Zoccali

Embong Zunaina

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    1.9 - 2-year Impact Factor
    2.2 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.135 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.502 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    29 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    131 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    1,809,339 downloads
    257 Altmetric mentions 

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency: Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

    Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

    More information is available here

Sign up for article alerts and news from this journal