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Fam Proc 26:493-494, 1987

TO OUR AD-HOC REVIEWERS FOR 1987, WITH

APPRECIATION
Family process receives some 250 manuscripts submitted each year for publication. Each is read with care and respect
by two, three, and even four senior reviewers. They analyze content and form, and comment extensively about the
originality of the work, familiarity of the author with other relevant publications, appropriateness of the conclusions in light
of the data, and coherence of the presentation. Many questions are considered. Is the paper elegant? Is it intelligent? Is it
relevant? Is it parsimonious? Is it accurate? Is it daring? If these questions are answered affirmatively, another set of
questions is posed: How could it be improved even further? What could be cut without a loss of substance? What should be
added? How to distill the best of the already good? In most cases, authors receive substantiveif not massivefeedback.
Some are informed that their article will be accepted for publication; some receive, together with our reviewers' critiques,
an invitation to revise and resubmit for a second round of evaluations; and, alas, some receive a rejection letter, together
with substantial reactions to and suggestions about their article by some of the leaders in our field. FAMILY PROCESS
establishes in this way an active partnership with its authors, and provides a major peer-review opportunity for our field.
Who does all that scholarly work? Who provides all that substantive, rich, and intelligent review? Our reviewers belong
to two cohorts. One group is listed in the masthead in each issue of FAMILY PROCESS as our roster of Advisory Editors.
The other is our Ad-Hoc Reviewers, a major group of collaborators who share generously their wisdom and their time with
our authors by reviewing manuscripts especially suited to their area of expertise. To this latter group, we wish to
acknowledge in this note our appreciation for their willingness to contribute with enthusiasm their intellectual share in
order to keep our field on its toes and to keep FAMILY PROCESS at the forefront of the expanding discipline of family
therapy.
CARLOS E. SLUZKI, THE EDITOR
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FAMILY PROCESS ad-hoc reviewers for 1987 are:
1. Gill Gorel Barnes, A.A.P.S.W.
2. Joel Bergman, M.D.
3. Richard M. Berlin, M.D.
4. Guillermo Bernal, Ph.D.
5. Luigi Boscolo, M.D.
6. Carlos Cano, M.D.
7. Sara Cobb, M.A.
8. William Doherty, Ph.D.
9. Richard Fisch, M.D.
10. Lawrence Fisher, Ph.D.
11. Regina J. Garrick, Ph.D.
12. Daniel Giacomo, M.D.
13. Virginia Goldner, Ph.D.
14. Harold Goolishian, Ph.D.
15. Fred Gottlieb, M.D.
16. Robert Green, Ph.D.
17. Max Hernandez, M.D.
18. Michael Kahn, Ph.D.
19. Mark Karpel, Ph.D.
20. Bradford Keeney, Ph.D.
21. Michael Kerr, M.D.
22. Ronald Liebman, M.D.
23. Michael Nichols, Ph.D
24. Peggy Penn, M.S.W
25. Phil Pryjma, M.D.
26. Richard Rabkin, M.D., F.A.P.A.
27. Rodney Shapiro, Ph.D.
28. Fritz B. Simon, M.D.
29. Koji Suzuki, M.D.
30. Pekka Tienari, M.D.
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31. Max von Trommel, M.D.

32. Howard Weiss, Ph.D.
33. Leonard W. Yost, Ph.D.