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Thanks to all those who reviewed for BMC Ophthalmology in 2018

The editors and staff of BMC Ophthalmology would like to warmly thank the 864 reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts in Volume 18 (2018).


Solmaz Abdolrahimzadeh

Marwan Abouammoh

Bagher Abtah

Srijana Adhikari

Aniruddha Agarwal

Ada Aghaji

Luca Agnifili

Seong Joon Ahn

Francesco Aiello

Donnie Akers

Masayuki Akimoto

Yonca Akova

Muhammad Akram

Mohammed Al Shamrani

Talal Alabduljalil

Mark Alberti

Muhammad Ali

Mohammad Javed Ali

Zeynep Alkin

Riham Allam

Davide Allegrini

Richard C. Allen

Mohamed Al-Shabrawey

Carlos Alves

Young Alvinlerrmann

Vikas Ambiya

Winfried Amoaku

Francisco Amparo

Ilir Arapi

Samuel Arba-Mosquera

Navid Ardjomand

Ahmad A. Aref

Ceyhun Arici

Reiko Arita

Joseba Artaraz

Alberto Artola Roig

Penny Asbell

Francisco Javier Ascaso

Leyla Asena

Soheila Asgari

Jane Ashworth

George Asimellis

Denize Atan

Sarah Atkinson

Heba Attaallah

Teresio Avitabile

Elena Avram

Eman Awad

Ahmed Awadein

Masahiko Ayaki

Marcelo Ayala

Orhan Ayar

Augusto Azuara-Blanco

Amani Badawi

Corin Badiu

So Hyun Bae

Sehyun Baek

Meredith S. Baker

Sashia Bak-Nielsen

Sila Bal

Divya Balakrishnan

Praveen Balne

Touka Banaee

Sava Barisic

William R. Barlow

Colin Barnstable

Robert Barry

Daniel Barthelmes

Ozlem Barut Selver

Hikmet Basmak

Carl J. Bassi

Muhammed Batur

Nader Bayoumi

Matthias Becker

Toke Bek

Charles Bekibele

Elizabeth Berger

Paul Bernstein

Jesse L. Berry

Vishaal R. Bhambhwani

Sulatha Bhandary

Harsimran Bhatia

Sanjoy . K Bhattacharya

Mainak Bhattacharyya

Marc Biarnés

Leonard Bielory

Manas Ranjan Biswal

Michael Blair

Richard J. Blanch

Marcus Blum

Tian Bo

Joke Boer

Culver Boldt

Jacopo Bonetto

Charles Bouchard

Banu Bozkurt

Richard Braun

Fion Bremner

Scott Brodie

Claudlo Bucolo

Tomas Burke

Jacqueline Busingye

Yong-Soo Byun

Irene C. Kuo

Roberta Calienno

Pilar Calvo

Erika ‎ Camacho

Paolo Carpineto

Ester Carreno

Daniel Carson

Enzo Castiglione

Claudio Cedrone

Osman Çekiç

Lala Ceklic

Ali Riza Cenk Celebi

Massimo Cesareo

Ebru Nevin Cetin

Chandana Chakraborty

Bernard Champion

Stanley Chang

Minwook Chang

Hsiaoming Chao

Francesca M Chappell

Chengye Che

Haoyu Chen

Ta-Ching Chen

Youxin Chen

Junyi Chen

Li Jia Chen

Weirong Chen

Xiangjun Chen

Henry Shen-Lih Chen

Jin Chern Chiou

Smith Chisholm

Anna Chmielarz-Czarnocińska

Kyong Jin Cho

Bum-Joo Cho

Jin Seok Choi

Se Hyun Choi

Hyuk Jin Choi

Jin A. Choi

Jacqueline Chua

Yeoun Sook Chun

Young Taek Chung

Abdullah Kursat Cingu

Daniela Cioplean

Abbot Clark

Peter Clarke-Farr

Lidia Cocho

Andrews Colm

Arzu Taskiran Comez

Christopher Compton

Luz Elena Concha-Del-Río

Shannon Conley

Ciro Costagliola

Alan Crandall

Alja Crnej

Khrishen Cunnusamy

Christine A Curcio

Velia D'Agata

Shuan Dai

Rossella D'Aloisio

Padraig D'Arcy

Sujata Das

Daniyar Dauletbekov

Paaraj Dave

Vivek Dave

Myrjam De Keyser

Gabriella De Salvo

Luiz De Souza Lima

Suleyman Demircan

Efstathios Detorakis

Donato Di Pierro

Chris Dickinson

Maurizio Digiuni

Siddharth Dikhsit

Jie Ding

Angelica Dipinto

Martin Dirisamer

Bonnie Dobbs

Mangat Dogra

Rosa Dolz-Marco

S. Donati

Laura Downie

J. Crawford Downs

Carolyn D. Drews-Botsch

Adam Dubis

Erminia D'Ugo

Roseline Duke

Ira Dunkel

Debarun Dutta

Melanie Eberle

Andreas Ebneter

Adel Ebraheem

Kurtul Ece

Allen Eghrari

Hiroshi Eguchi

Maya Eiger-Moscovich

Amal Elbendary

Dina El-Fayoumi

Kadir Eltutar

Ahmed Elwehidy

Philip Enders

Katharina Endes

Morteza Entezari

Youngsub Eom

Gurkan Erdogan

Bahram Eshraghi

Medi Eslani

Rw Essex

Christopher Estopinal

Felix Ezepue

Baojian Fan

Wei Fang

James Farmer

Asim Farooq

Antonio Fea

Sepehr Feizi

Yifan Feng

James Feusner

Michele Figus

Guido Filler

Christina J. Flaxel

Paolo Fogagnolo

Alejandro Fonollosa Calduch

Brad Fortune

Allen Foster

Richard France

Semeraro Francesco

Sandra Franco

Florentina Freiberg

Timothy Fricke

Ilana B. Friedman

Qiuli Fu

Anat Galor

Sankeert Gangakhedkar

Sunir J. Garg

Justus Garweg

Bruce Gaynes

Constantinos Georgakopoulos

Hadi Ghadimi

Asaad Ghanem

Fariba Ghassemi

Scuderi Gianluca

Clare Gilbert

Christopher Girkin

Akilesh Gokul

David Goldblum

Lan Gong

Xiaohua Gong

Toshiaki Goseki

Boris Gramatikov

Dilraj Grewal

Jeffrey Gross

Andrzej Grzybowski

Jianjun Gu

Ja Gu

Hande Güçlü

Kjell Gunnar Gundersen

Kaan Gunduz

Wenyi Guo

Bhaskar Gupta

Vivek Gupta

Paul Hahn

Benjamin Hale

Anthony Hall

Kyeong Eun Han

Kyuyeon Han

Mei Han

Sang Beom Han

Jae Ryong Han

Ronald Hansen

Rekha Hansraj

Richard Harrad

Mary Hartnett

Seyed Javad Hashemian

Takahiko Hayashi

Atsushi Hayashi

Jianfeng He

Jingliang He

Yu-Guang He

Anders Heijl

James Hejtmancik

Hany Helaly

Dan Heller

Tarek Hemeida

Jeffrey Henderer

Leon W. Herndon

Martina Herwig-Carl

Taichi Hikichi

David Hinkle

Kazunori Hirasawa

Akira Hirata

Nino Hirnschall

Stephan Hoffmann

Gabor Hollo

Jonathan Holmes

Moran Homola

Masayuki Horiguchi

Anna Horwood

Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini

Yu-Chih Hou

Zhengping Hu

Zhengmao Hu

Yanjun Hua

Jinhai Huang

Min-Wei Huang

Wendy Huang

Jean Pierre Hubschman

John Hulleman

Li Hung

Ho Sik Hwang

John Hwang

Hyung Bin Hwang

Thomas Hwang

Jeong-Min Hwang

Je Hyung Hwang

Kyu-Yeon Hwang

Hisanori Imai

Takenori Inomata

Makoto Inoue

Yoshitsugu Inoue

Bushra Irum

Samir Jabbour

Ebrahim Jafarzadehpur

Mansooreh Jamshidian

Sun Young Jang

Sarah Janssen

Wolfgang Jaschinski

Chaitra Jayadev

Hari Jayaram

Jinho Jeong

Kwang Won Jeong

Chunhui Jiang

Jun Jiang

Hong-Ying Jin

Emma Jolley

Passara Jongkhajornpong

Rajesh Joshi

Jong Hwa Jun

Ji Won Jung

Moonsun Jung

Mary K. Wirtz

Emrah Kabataş

George Kalantzis

Bartłomiej Kałużny

Piotr Kanclerz

Himal Kandel

Hiroki Kaneko

Pauline Kang

Yunus Karabela

Eleni Karatsai

Nasser Karimi

Manal Kasem

Seema Kashyap

Henryk T. Kasprzak

Rehab Rashad Kassem

Marzieh Katibeh

Andreas Katsanos

Jasbir Kaur

Ravinder Kaur

Sushmita Kaushik

Aki Kawasaki

Miriam Keane

Lisa Keay

Jeremy Keenan

Line Kessel

Takeshi Kezuka

Shahid Khan

Rajiv Khandekar

Sam Khandhadia

Samer Khateb

Teruyo Kida

Rasit Kilic

Dong Hyun Kim

Min Kim

Seung-Hyun Kim

Hyun Kyung Kim

Ec Kim

Seong-Woo Kim

Tae-Im Kim

Sun Woong Kim

Kenichi Kimoto

Koji Kitazawa

Yoshiaki Kiuchi

Yuksel Kivrak

Jiro Kogo

Kentaro Kojima

Anton Kolomeyer

Xiangmei Kong

Onur Konuk

Igor Kozák

Subramanian Krishnakumar

C Kucukerdonmez

Lucia Kuffova

Binit Kumar

Govindasamy Kumaramanickavel

Shiho Kunimatsu-Sanuki

Lih Kuo

Toshihide Kurihara

Shree Kumar Kurup

Sentaro Kusuhara

Isil Kutluturk

Ji-Won Kwon

Junki Kwon

Samuel Kyei

Robert L. Stamper

Antoine Labbe

Antoine Labbé

Marc Labetoulle

Georgios Labiris

Timothy Lai

Prajna Lalitha

Sara Lally

Wai-Ching Lam

Michele Lanza

Antony Law

Jimmy Le

Ines Leal

Susan Leat

Jong Joo Lee

Hun Lee

Helena Lee

Nahyoung Grace Lee

Hyun Soo Lee

Yuan-Chieh Lee

Dae Yeong Lee

Ji Hwan Lee

Sang-Mok Lee

Byung Joo Lee

Jianqin Lei

Kaevalin Lekhanont

Anton Lennikov

Ryan Lennon

Jian Li

Ying Li

Shuning Li

Xiaorong Li

Guigang Li

Lin Li

Jingming Li

Xinyu Li

Ma Li

Shiying Li

Song Li

Lingyi Liang

Dong Hui Lim

Hui-Ju Lin

Chun-Ju Lin

Jijian Lin

Xiaofeng Lin

Yuan Liu

Grant Liu

Xiaowei Liu

Xiaoxuan Liu

Alexander Ljubimov

Sree Logan

Claudia Lommatzsch

Reid Longmuir

Antonio Longo

Yi Lu

Hai Lu

Cheng-Wei Lu

Guohua Lu

Lou Lu

Lin - Lü

Marco Lupidi

Jeffrey K. Luttrull

Nyein Chan Lwin

Lyubomyr Lytvynchuk

Jianmin Ma

Peng-Juan Ma

Dae Joong Ma

Gail Macconachie

Anna Machalińska

Siddharth Madan

Akiko Maeda

George Magrath

Prafulla Maharana

Sajjad Mahmood

Parthopratim Dutta Majumder

Spoorti Mandadi

Mark Mandelcorn

Baskaran Mani

Ahmad Mansour

Nardi Marco

Cesare Mariotti

Mary Marquart

Raul Martin

Enrico Martini

Kazuichi Maruyama

Khathutshelo Mashige

Samuel Masket

Dustin Masser

Jyoti H. Matalia

Francesco Matarazzo

Wanjiku Mathenge

Thibaud Mathis

Gareth Mckay

Tina Mckay

Zhang Meifen

Victor Menezo

M Menghini

Johannes Menzel-Severing

Farhan Merali

Carsten Meyer

Atsuya Miki

Atsushi Miki

Dan Milea

Darlene Miller

Hasan Minto

Arash Mirmohammadsadeghi

Dilip Kumar Mishra

Kanhaiya Mittal

Vikas Mittal

Kiyofumi Mochizuki

Mario Luiz Ribeiro Monteiro

Giovanni Montesano

C. Gustavo De Moraes

Yuki Morizane

Majid Moshirfar

Ahmed Mostafa

Guo-Ying Mu

Alvin Munsamy

Daisuke Muramatsu

Toshinori Murata

Ian Murdoch

Paul J. Murphy

Nyawira Mwangi

Jean-Claude Mwanza

Reza Nabie

Mohammad Naderan

Taiji Nagaoka

Endre Nagy

Yoav Nahum

Nashua Naicker

Kovin S Naidoo

Mayuresh Naik

Tomoko Naito

Takeshi Nakao

Hiroyuki Nakashizuka

Isao Nakata

Mayank Nanavaty

Pietro Emanuele Napoli

Akiko Narita

Francesco Nasini

Barun Nayak

Mahmood Nejabat

Gabor Nemeth

Yutaro Nishi

Anna Nowinska

Katarzyna Nowomiejska

Paolo Nucci

Raffaele Nuzzi

Julius T. Oatts

Akira Obana

Stephen Ocansey

Anna O'Connor

Kelechi Ogbuehi

Okonkwo Ogugua

Jaeryung Oh

Joo Youn Oh

Sei Yeul Oh

Akio Oishi

Naser Oji

Onochie Okoye

Hidehiro Oku

Tetsuhiko Okuda

Pembe Oltulu

Zafer Onaran

Takeshi Ono

Kemal Ornek

Ada Orrico

Toshiyuki Oshitari

Elena Pacella

Dušica Pahor

Michele Palmieri

Puneet Panda

Georgios Panos

Eleni Papageorgiou

Un Chul Park

Young-Hoon Park

Young Min Park

Joo-Hee Park

Sang Woo Park

Kyu Hyung Park

Choul Yong Park

Shin Goo Park

Olavi Parssinen

Andrea Passani

Sangita P. Patel

Nabin Paudel

Jayter Paula

Miriam Paulisch

Emilio Pedrotti

Gökhan Pekel

Nachiket Pendse

Chi Hsien Peng

Kathryn Pepple

Jason Peragallo

Xandra Pereiro

Rafael Pérez-Cambrodí

Palsamy Periyasamy

Paolo Perri

Tunde Peto

Harry Petrushkin

Mohammadreza Peyman

Alireza Peyman

Philip Polkinghorne

Diego Ponzin

Rita Popat

Alejandro Portero

Chiara Posarelli

Constanza Potilinski

Grace Prakalapakorn

Marianne Price

Heiko Pult

Claudio Punzo

Konstantine Purtskhvanidze

Neelam Pushker

Ibrahim Qaddoumi

Yj Qin

Xuejiao Qin

Luciano Quaranta

Antonio Queirós

Graham E. Quinn

Karim Raafat

Mohammad Taher Rajabi

Krishnakumar Ramani

Aparna Ramasubramanian

Jacqueline Ramke

Bushra Rauf

M. Reza Razeghinejad

Mohammad Reza Razeghinejad

Vijay Anand Reddy

Peter S. Reinach

Sara Rezzola

Soolienah Rhiu

Seungsoo Rho

Miguel Ribeiro

Thomas Ritter

Ivano Riva

Paul Roberts

Alan Robin

Roberto Rocchi

David Rodriguez

Manuel Rodríguez-Vallejo

Duangnate Rojanaporn

Teresa Rolle

Vito Romano

Eric Romanowski

Shisong Rong

Xianfang Rong

Pietro Rosetta

Fiona Rowe

Abhijit Roy

Poh Yuen Ying Rozaida

Eliana Rulli

Denise Ryan

Barbara Ryan

Ali Osman Saatci

Riccardo Sacconi

Gitansha Sachdev

Virender Sachdeva

Afsun Sahin

Alparslan Şahin

Masaaki Saito

Wataru Saito

Daniel Salchow

Raju Sampangi

Birgit Agnes Sander

Aaron Sanjith

Tomislav Sarenac

Hiroki Sasaki

Simpei Sato

Kase Satoru

Gita Satpathy

Judy Savige

Sandeep Saxena

Emil Anthony Say

Ronald Schachar

Paula S. Schaiquevich

Friederike Schaub

Amy C. Schefler

Ariel Schlaen

Christian Schmeer

Doreen Schmidl

Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

Paula Scholz

Paulo Schor

Matthew Schrag

Alexander K. Schuster

Jerry Sebag

Aleksandra Sędzikowska

Leonard Seibold

Michael Seider

Stuart R. Seiff

Sirisha Senthil

Jeong Won Seo

Kim Seong Jae

Juan Carlos Serna-Ojeda

Chirag Pradip Shah

Mehul Shah

Samantha Shan

Varshini Shanker

Emily Shao

Farideh Sharifipour

Tarun Sharma

Savitri Sharma

Ismail Shatriah

Yang Shen

Jay Sheth

Daisuke Shiba

Hiroyuki Shimada

Yoshiaki Shimada

M. A. Rehman Siddiqui

Rufino M Silva

Trefford Simpson

Archita Singh

Kareem Sioufi

Ratna Sitompul

Jason Aaron Sokol

Kamal Solaiman

Mohammad Soleimani

George L Spaeth

Oriel Spierer

Martin Spitzer

Sreekanth Sreekantham

Miles Stanford

David Steel

R Steigerwald

Jay Stewart

Sandra Stinnett

Patrick Michael Stuart

Prem Subramanian

Ahalaya Subramanian

Alan Sugar

Joel Sugar

Wool Suh

David Sullivan

Xiaodong Sun

Catherine Suttle

Mihoko Suzuki

Mark Swanson

Yasuhiro Takahashi

Anamika Tandon

Naoyuki Tanimoto

Yong Tao

Alejandro Tello

Hiroto Terasaki

Miguel Ángel Teus

Meng Tian

Jeewan Titiyal

Daniele Tognetto

Naoto Tokuda

Louis Tong

Hiroshi Toshida

Gian Marco Tosi

Lisa Toto

Giacinto Triolo

Koushik Tripathy

James Tsai

Victoria Tseng

Yuri P Tsentalovich

Burak Turgut

Argyrios Tzamalis

Patricia Udaondo

Erkan Unsal

Cristhian Urzua

F Ussa

Denise Valenti

Ruth M. A. Van Nispen

Mary Van Schooneveld

Monica Varano

Demetrios G Vavvas

Jayesh Vazirani

S. Swaroop Vedula

Pradeep Venkatesh

Aditya Venkatesh

Athanasios Vergados

Pavan Verkicharla

Ajay Vijay

Eduardo Villamor-Martinez

Stephen Vincent

Nikolaos Voutsas

Peter W Macintosh

Fared Wagdy

Sebastian Waldstein

Martine Wallon

Peter Walter

Fenghua Wang

Zhongxiao Wang

Xiaoying Wang

Haibo Wang

Jingyun Wang

Mengmeng Wang

Yan Wang

Yong Wang

Joanna Wasielica-Poslednik

Yantao Wei

Mitchell Patrick Weikert

Nousal Wergenthaler

Rene Werkmeister

Woong-Joo Whang

Sanj Wickremasinghe

Koen Willekens

Andrew Williams

John Wood

Wei-Chi Wu

Mingxing Wu

Wenchuan Wu

Yuan Wu

Darrell Wudunn

Shunbin Xu

David Xu

Nisha Yadav

Takefumi Yamaguchi

Yasuo Yanagi

Ryoji Yanai

Chung-May Yang

Suk-Woo Yang

Ke Yao

Tsutomu Yasukawa

Guofang Ye

Aaron Yeung

Vivian Yin

Gui-Shuang Ying

Glenn Yiu

Harumasa Yokota

Yung Ju Yoo

Kyung Chul Yoon

Sam Young Yoon

Young Hee Yoon

Shigeo Yoshida

Munemitsu Yoshikawa

Honghua Yu

Bo Yu

Minbin Yu

Hunter Yuen

Yew Sen Yuen

Nursen Yüksel

Vicente Zanon-Moreno

Miguel Angel Zapata

Tomasz Zarnowski

Madeleine Zetterberg

Liang Zhang

Jie Zhang

Shaodan Zhang

Fengju Zhang

Rui Zhang

Ye Zhang

Mingzhi Zhang

Peiquan Zhao

Yun-E Zhao

Ce Zheng

Hua Zhong

Xingwu Zhong

Xingtao Zhou

Zicheng Zhu

Xiangjia Zhu

Focke Ziemssen

Hanna Zimmermann

Martin Zinkernagel

Lepša D. Žoric


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