PLOS ONE 2017 Reviewer and Editorial Board Thank You.

PLOS and the PLOS ONE team would like to express our appreciation for our academic editors, guest editors, and reviewers who contributed to the peer-review process this past year. We are indebted to volunteers who generously give their time and expertise to thoroughly review research and advance Open Access. In 2017, PLOS ONE received the help of over 4,400 Editorial Board members and 500 guest editors to curate nearly 45,000 submissions. Along with the participation of 63,000 reviewers, we were able to publish more than 20,000 articles with meaningful and impactful results. The names of our 2017 editors that handled submitted manuscripts appear in the Supporting Information as S1 Editor List and as S1 Guest Editor List. Our reviewers appear in the Supporting Information as S1–S5 Reviewer List. With genuine gratitude, we thank you all for your dedicated support of PLOS ONE and our efforts to promote Open Science, thereby contributing to the scientific community as a whole. Thank you all

Response by the Editors

We would like to thank the Quaker Theological Discussion Group for organizing and hosting this panel. It is a privilege indeed to have one’s work given so much attention by such a distinguished set of colleagues. We are very grateful to Jon Kershner, Leah Payne, Paul Anderson, and Madeleine Ward for their perceptive and affirming reviews of Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought, 1647-1723. Their appreciation guides us toward a brief reply. Of course, some response seems in order to a few of the thoughtful observations that they made about our work

Sensor, Signal, and Imaging Informatics in 2017.

Objective To summarize significant contributions to sensor, signal, and imaging informatics literature published in 2017.Methods PubMed® and Web of Science® were searched to identify the scientific publications published in 2017 that addressed sensors, signals, and imaging in medical informatics. Fifteen papers were selected by consensus as candidate best papers. Each candidate article was reviewed by section editors and at least two other external reviewers. The final selection of the four best papers was conducted by the editorial board of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook.Results The selected papers of 2017 demonstrate the important scientific advances in management and analysis of sensor, signal, and imaging information.ConclusionThe growth of signal and imaging data and the increasing power of machine learning techniques have engendered new opportunities for research in medical informatics. This synopsis highlights cutting-edge contributions to the science of Sensor, Signal, and Imaging Informatics

The role of refereed journals in integrating theory, research, and practice

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Recent Advances in Sustainable Winter Road Operations – A Book Proposal

Investing in winter transportation operations is essential and beneficial to the public and the economy. The U.S. economy cannot afford the cost of shutting down highways, airports, etc., during winter weather. In the northern U.S. and other cold-climate areas, winter maintenance operations are essential to ensure the safety, mobility, and productivity of transportation systems. Agencies are continually challenged to provide a high level of service and improve safety and mobility in a fiscally and environmentally responsible manner. To this end, it is desirable to use the most recent advances in the application of materials, practices, equipment, and other technologies. Such best practices are expected to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of winter operations, to optimize material usage, and to reduce associated annual spending, corrosion, and environmental impacts. Currently, no professional societies, scientific journals, or textbooks are dedicated solely to sustainable winter road operations, and key information is scattered across a variety of disciplines. The objective of the proposed book is to summarize the best practices and recent advances in sustainable winter road operations for the purposes of education and workforce development. This book is now in press and can be cited as follows: Shi, X., Fu, L. (2017). Sustainable Winter Road Operations (Eds.). ISBN: 978-1-119-18506-2. Wiley-Blackwell

Appreciation of Peer Reviewers for 2017

On behalf of the authors and readers of Reviews of Geophysics, the American Geophysical Union, and the broader scientific community, the Editors wish to wholeheartedly thank those who reviewed the manuscripts for Reviews of Geophysics in 2017. The journal could not exist without your investment of time and effort, lending your expertise to ensure that the papers published in this journal meet the standards that the research community expects for it. We sincerely appreciate all that you do, and we are very grateful for your willingness and readiness to serve in this role.Plain Language SummaryOn behalf of the authors and readers of Reviews of Geophysics, the American Geophysical Union, and the broader scientific community, the Editors wish to wholeheartedly thank those who reviewed the manuscripts for Reviews of Geophysics in 2017. The journal could not exist without your investment of time and effort, lending your expertise to ensure that the papers published in this journal meet the standards that the research community expects for it. We sincerely appreciate all that you do, and we are very grateful for your willingness and readiness to serve in this role. Reviews of Geophysics published 29 review papers, a commentary and an editorial in 2017, covering most of the AGU Section topics, and for this we were able to rely on the efforts of 99 dedicated reviewers. Many reviewers answered the call multiple times. Thank you again. We look forward to a 2018 of exciting advances in the field and communicating those advances to our community and to the broader public.Key PointThe Reviews of Geophysics Editors thank all the peer reviewers from 2017Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147789/1/rog20174.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147789/2/rog20174_am.pd