Periodic Reviewer Interests & Profile Updates Encouraged

Periodic request to all reviewers sent to update and confirm their reviewing details.

Periodically, Exchanges contacts its reviewers to request that they reconfirm the information we hold on them as part of their registration to review is correct. We last conducted this exercise in 2022, and it was overdue to be run again, to help us maintain the accuracy and currency of the information we hold on reviewers. On this occasion we have contacted all reviewers who registered with us on or before 31/12/2024 to request they check and update (where necessary) their areas of research interest. These keywords are used by Exchanges editorial team in identifying which reviewers may be best suited to act as peer-reviewers for papers submitted to the journal.

Reviewers can login and update their information themselves, or can contact us directly to ask that we correct them. For some reviewers though, this may be an opportunity for them to stand-down from our reviewing list and request the inactivation of their reviewing status, or indeed the removal of their account. Something we will, with natural regrets, arrange for them.

This exercise is also useful for the journal in terms of maintaining database integrity as overtime some user email accounts expire. By contacting our reviewers directly in this way, we are able to identify if any currently listed accounts are no longer active, which saves us time in fruitless pursuing a reviewing request to an account which is no longer active.

Reviewers who registered in 2025 are also more than welcome to update their details but were excluded from this mailshot due the relative recent nature of their accounts’ creation.

On behalf of the Exchanges Board and editorial team, may I say a hearty thank you to all our reviewers past and present for their efforts in supporting the journal. For those with any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the Chief Editor via email.