Dear Reader,
As we approach the end of 2016, and publish our final issue of Sports Medicine for the year, we wish to reflect on another successful year for the journal, and thank all those who have contributed to Sports Medicine in 2016.
Looking back over the past five years, the Sports Medicine volume has more than doubled in size: from 64 articles in 2012 to 134 articles in 2016. This growth reflects an increasing number of authors contributing manuscripts to Sports Medicine and we would, firstly, like to acknowledge how indebted we are to all of the authors who have chosen to support Sports Medicine.
The fact that Sports Medicine’s impact factor has remained high as the journal has grown provides reassurance that the increase in quantity has not been paralleled by a reduction in quality. This not only reflects the skill and dedication of the contributing authors, but also, the significant efforts of the many expert peer reviewers, whose commitment ensures that the journal’s content remains held to the highest possible standard.
We would like to thank the following individuals who have acted as peer reviewers for Sports Medicine over the past 12 months:
Chris Abbiss, Australia
Andrew Abraham, UK
Paul Ackermann, Sweden
Eva Ageberg, Sweden
Richard Akenhead, Qatar
Brandon Alderman, USA
Bara Alsalaheen, USA
Soichi Ando, Japan
Peter Angell, UK
Elizabeth Arendt, USA
Christos Argus, Australia
Miranda Armstrong, UK
Lawrence Armstrong, USA
Pierrick Arnal, France
Arni Arnarson, Iceland
Calum Arthur, UK
Michael Ashenden, Australia
Carl Askling, Sweden
David Bacharach, USA
Stephen Bailey, UK
Ruben Barakat, Spain
Adad Baranto, Sweden
Alan Barker, UK
Richard Barker, New Zealand
Gill Barry, UK
Alan Batterham, UK
Christine Baugh, USA
Jochen Baumeister, Germany
Jeffrey Bazarian, USA
Milou Beelen, The Netherlands
David Behm, Canada
Anne Benjaminse, The Netherlands
Peter Biberthaler, Germany
François Bieuzen, Canada
Katherine Black, New Zealand
Wilhelm Bloch, Germany
Gregory Bogdanis, Greece
Jens Bojsen-Møller, Norway
Coen Bongers, The Netherlands
Petros Botonis, Greece
Martim Bottaro, Brazil
Lindsay Bottoms, UK
Stephen Boutcher, Australia
Mohamed Amine Bouzid, Tunisia
J. David Branch, USA
Raphael Brandon, UK
William Braun, USA
Jeri Brittin, USA
Elizabeth Broad, USA
Steven Broglio, USA
Alison Brooks, USA
Lee Brown, USA
Wendy Brown, Australia
Gert-Peter Brüggemann, Germany
Wioletta Brzenczek-Owczarzak, Poland
Jonathan Buckley, Australia
Nicholas Burd, USA
Louise Burke, Australia
Jamie Burr, Canada
Martin Burtscher, Austria
Kate Button, UK
Jose Antonio Lopez Calbet, Spain
Kristina Calder, Canada
Mike Callan, UK
Robin Callister, Australia
David Camarillo, USA
Robin Candau, France
Darren Candow, Canada
Robert Cantu, USA
Andrew Carey, Australia
Kai-Hakon Carlsen, Norway
Andrew Carr, UK
Marti Casals, Spain
José Castro-Piñero, Spain
Rafael Casuso, Spain
Karim Chamari, Qatar
Lisa Chasan-Taber, USA
Bobby Cheema, Australia
Stephen Cheung, Canada
Michael Chia, Singapore
Philip Chilibeck, Canada
Yu-Han Chiu, USA
Jia Chow, Singapore
Anita Christie, USA
Danilo Cialoni, Italy
Ken Clark, USA
James Cobley, UK
Manuel Coelho-e-Silva, Portugal
Alysia Cohen, USA
Giovanna Colombetti, UK
Paul Comfort, UK
Brett Comstock, USA
Michael Connor, Canada
Jeff Coombes, Australia
Robert Copeland, UK
Rita Cordovil, Portugal
Stuart Cormack, Australia
Veronique Cornelissen, Belgium
Joshua Cotter, USA
Mariana Couto, Portugal
Fiona Crawford, USA
Scott Crouter, USA
Katharine Currie, Canada
Alan Currie, UK
Andrew Dalziell, UK
Gali Dar, Israel
Keith Davids, UK
George Davies, USA
Luciana Janot de Matos, Brazil
Erick Prado de Oliveira, Brazil
Eduardo de Souza, Brazil
Louis DeFrate, USA
Hendrik DeHeer, USA
Silvia Del Din, UK
Alasdair Dempsey, Australia
Zachary Dezman, USA
Gonçalo Dias, Portugal
Nikolaos Digelidis, Greece
Fred DiMenna, USA
Filipe Dinato de Lima, Brazil
Peng Ding, USA
Robert DiSilvestro, USA
Karol Dokladny, USA
Alex Donaldson, Australia
Lars Donath, Switzerland
James Donnelly, Australia
Cyril Donnelly, Australia
Alan Donnelly, Ireland
Catherine Draper, South Africa
Michael Drew, Australia
Tarak Driss, France
Hervé Dubouchaud, France
Dean Dudley, Australia
Stéphane Dufour, France
Zeljko Dujic, Croatia
Stefan Duma, USA
Ronald Eccles, UK
Örjan Ekblom, Sweden
David Ellemberg, Canada
Adrian Elliott, Australia
Amanda Esquivel, USA
Dulce Esteves, Portugal
Roger Eston, Australia
Ryan Falck, Canada
Coral Falco, Norway
Oliver Faude, Switzerland
Steve Faulkner, UK
Samantha Fawkner, UK
Rômulo Araújo Fernandes, Brazil
César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Spain
Krzysztof Ficek, Poland
Kevin Finn, USA
Joseph Firth, UK
David Fletcher, UK
Jonathan Folland, UK
Lawrence Foweather, UK
Sandra Fowkes-Godek, USA
Argyro Fragkaki, Greece
Jonathan Freeston, Australia
Duncan French, UK
Andrew Fry, USA
David Fukuda, USA
Jackson Fyfe, Australia
Belinda Gabbe, Australia
Tim Gabbett, Australia
Isabelle Gagnon, Canada
Paul Gamble, UK
Yuko Gando, Japan
Andrew Gardner, Australia
Hannes Gatterer, Austria
Ariane Ghekiere, Belgium
Martin Gibala, Canada
Susan Giblin, UK
Jason Gillis, USA
Nicholas Gist, USA
Lasse Gliemann, Denmark
Edwin Goedhart, The Netherlands
Allan Goldfarb, USA
Marcela González-Gross, Spain
Paul Goods, Australia
Alberto Grassi, Italy
Viviane Grassmann, Canada
Richard Greenwald, USA
Herb Groeller, Australia
Markus Gruber, Germany
Gabriel Gual, Spain
Gaël Guilhem, France
Aymeric Guillot, France
Carlos Gutiérrez-García, Spain
Henna Haapala, Finland
Anthony Hackney, USA
Gregory Haff, Australia
Martin Hagglund, Sweden
Jostein Hallén, Norway
D. Lee Hamilton, UK
Ho Han, USA
Keir Hansen, New Zealand
Dominique Hansen, Belgium
Timothy Hartwig, Australia
Satoru Hashizume, Japan
Carl Hasselman, USA
Christophe Hautier, France
Steven Hawkins, USA
Gregory Heath, USA
Anne Hecksteden, Germany
Eric Hegedus, USA
Jorn Heggelund, Norway
Tara Henagan, USA
Kathryn Hesketh, UK
Luiz Hespanhol Jr, The Netherlands
Peter Hespel, Belgium
Timothy Hewett, USA
Michael Higgins, USA
Jamie Highton, UK
Jessica Hill, UK
Angelica Lindén Hirschberg, Sweden
Jill Hnatiuk, Australia
Peter Hofmann, Austria
Matthew Hoon, Australia
Hans Hoppeler, Switzerland
Peggy Horn, Australia
Con Hrysomallis, Australia
Monica Hubal, USA
Airelle Hunter-Giordano, USA
Franco Impellizzeri, Italy
Tim Ingold, UK
Andreas Ivarsson, Sweden
Timo Jaakkola, Finland
Rod Jacques, UK
Jessie Janssen, UK
Tero Jarvinen, Finland
David Jenkins, Australia
Asker Jeukendrup, USA
Edward Jo, USA
Michael Johnston, UK
Ryan Jones, USA
Lynette Jones, New Zealand
Esme Jordaan, South Africa
Vanessa Jordan, New Zealand
Martin Jørgenson, Denmark
Elizabeth Joy, USA
Carsten Juhl, Denmark
Mary Jung, Canada
Claudia Juzwiak, Brazil
Thomas Karakolis, Canada
Trine Karlsen, Norway
Bettina Karsten, UK
Johannes Keller, Germany
Eleftherios Kellis, Greece
Jacqueline Kerr, USA
Liam Kilduff, UK
Jonathan Kim, USA
Doug King, New Zealand
Simon Kingham, New Zealand
Florence Kinnafick, UK
Pascale Kippelen, UK
Stefan Koehn, UK
Pelagia Koufaki, UK
Alex Kountouris, Australia
Yiannis Koutedakis, Greece
Laura Kox, The Netherlands
Robert Kraemer, USA
Andreas Kramer, Germany
Vikki Krane, USA
Mauricio Krause, Ireland
James Krieger, USA
Cara Krulewitch, USA
Christopher Kuenze, USA
Paul Kuijer, The Netherlands
Toshiyuki Kurihara, Japan
Joanna Kvist, Sweden
Matthew Kwan, Canada
Andre La Gerche, Australia
Carlos Lago-Penas, Spain
Raechel Laing, New Zealand
G. Patrick Lambert, USA
Michael Lambert, South Africa
Natalie Jayne, Lander, Australia
Beatriz Lara, Spain
Paul LaStayo, USA
Michele Lastella, Australia
Brian Lau, USA
Paul Laursen, New Zealand
Carl Lavie, USA
Jill Leckey, Australia
Duck-Chul Lee, USA
Paul Lee, Hong Kong
Luc Leger, Canada
Alexandre Lehnen, Brazil
Frederic Lemaitre, France
Roland Leser, Austria
Nathan Lewis, UK
Yue Liao, USA
Maléne Lindholm, Sweden
Jonathan Little, Canada
Arne Ljungqvist, Sweden
Rui Jorges Lopes, Portugal
Vitor Lopes, Portugal
Paul Loprinzi, USA
Thomas Losnegard, Norway
Anne Loucks, USA
Henry Lukaski, USA
Tommy Lundberg, Sweden
Carsten Lundby, Switzerland
Thibault Lussiana, France
Robert Lynall, USA
Alan MacPherson, UK
Andrew Maiorana, Australia
Gerard Malanga, USA
Rebecca Mallinson, USA
Terry Malone, USA
James Mandigo, Canada
David Mann, The Netherlands
Steve Mann, UK
Theresa Mann, South Africa
Claudio Marabotti, Italy
Eloi Marijon, France
Mário Marques, Portugal
Paul Marshall, Australia
Kristy Martin, Australia
Marrissa Martyn-St James, UK
Gordon Matheson, USA
Alexis Mauger, UK
Ron Maughan, UK
Frank Mayer, Germany
John Mayer, USA
Alan McCall, UK
Mary Beth McCarthy, USA
Lacey McCormack, USA
Alister McCormick, UK
Gordon McGregor, UK
Michael McGuigan, New Zealand
Blake McLean, USA
Daniel McMaster, New Zealand
Catherine McParlin, UK
Jessica Mee, UK
Carla Meijen, UK
Troy Merry, Switzerland
Adrian Midgley, UK
Zoran Milanović, Serbia
Neal Millar, UK
Chris Milne, New Zealand
Geoffrey Minett, Australia
Cameron Mitchell, New Zealand
Jeffrey Mjaanes, USA
Kush Modi, USA
Trine Moholdt, Norway
Michal Molcho, Ireland
Alexandre Moreira, Brazil
Jean-Benoit Morin, France
David Morris, USA
Dylan Morrissey, UK
Margo Mountjoy, Canada
Laurent Mourot, France
Lanay Mudd, USA
Thomas Muehlbauer, Germany
Toby Mundel, New Zealand
Aron Murphy, Australia
Toshiaki Nakajima, Japan
Fabio Nakamura, Brazil
Vincenzo Natale, Italy
Mathieu Nedelec, France
Lindsay Nelson, USA
Thomas Nesser, USA
Gabriel Rodrigues Neto, Brazil
Alan Nevill, UK
Karl Newell, USA
Andrew Nichols, USA
Vaughan Nicholson, Australia
David Nieman, USA
Johanna Nieuwoudt, Australia
Sophia Nimphius, Australia
Paul Nolan, New Zealand
Lena Norrbrand, Sweden
Ken Nosaka, Australia
Mohamed Ismail Nounou, Egypt
Ruhollah Nourian, Islamic Republic of Iran
Michael Nunns, UK
Lars Nybo, Denmark
Kathryn O’Connor, USA
Ciara O’Hagan, UK
Francesco Oliva, Italy
David Olive, USA
Jon Oliver, UK
Benita Olivier, South Africa
Vahur Oopik, Estonia
Tanja Oosthuyse, South Africa
John O’Reilly, Hong Kong
Katrine Owe, Norway
Julian Owen, UK
Johnny Padulo, Italy
Benjamin Pageaux, France
Derek Panchuk, Australia
Melissa Pangelinan, USA
Antonio Paoli, Italy
Elena Papacosta, Cyprus
Stefan Pasiakos, USA
Russell Pate, USA
Carl Paton, New Zealand
Caterina Pesce, Italy
Aaron Petersen, Australia
Mark Peterson, USA
Steven Petruzzello, USA
Erich Petushek, USA
Stuart Phillips, Canada
Maria Piacentini, Italy
Maarit Piirtola, Finland
Julian Pillay, South Africa
Tania Pizzari, Australia
Daniel Plews, New Zealand
Babette Pluim, The Netherlands
Stefanie Podlog (nee Schulte), USA
Noel Pollock, UK
Jeremy Pomeroy, USA
Michael Posthumus, South Africa
Francois Potdevin, France
Federico Pozzi, USA
Luis Puente-Maestu, Spain
Jonas Quist, Denmark
Truls Raastad, Norway
Mikael Rabaeus, Switzerland
Regis Radaelli, Brazil
Zsolt Radak, Hungary
Peter Raffalt, Denmark
Sudarshan Ramachandran, UK
Christian Raschner, Austria
Ben Rattray, Australia
Claudia Reardon, USA
Thomas Redick, USA
Robert Rein, Germany
Mathias Reiser, Germany
Chad Rethorst, USA
Gustaaf Reurink, The Netherlands
Juan Pablo Rey-López, Brazil
Elizabeth Richardson, UK
Florence Riera, France
Leah Robinson, USA
Luís Rodrigues, Portugal
Jose Rodriguez-Marroyo, Spain
Gabriel Rodríguez-Romo, Spain
Mike Rogerson, UK
Isabelle Rogowski, France
Simon Rosenbaum, Australia
Mads Rosenkilde, Denmark
Lindy Rossow, USA
Kenneth Rothman, USA
Emily Rousham, UK
Thomas Rowland, USA
Bethany Rowson, USA
Steve Rowson, USA
Mark Russell, UK
Michael Ryan, Australia
Massimo Sacchetti, Italy
Atle Saeterbakken, Norway
Aki Salo, UK
Pierre Samozino, France
Jaime Sampaio, Portugal
Øyvind Sandbakk, Norway
Bruno Tirotti Saragiotto, Australia
André Schmidt, Brazil
Brad Schoenfeld, USA
Jörg Schorer, Germany
Matt Schubert, USA
Yorck Schumacher, Qatar
Moritz Schumann, Finland
Martin Schwellnus, South Africa
Brendan Scott, Australia
Silvia Sedano, Spain
Matthew Seeley, USA
Laurent Seitz, Australia
Mohsen Shafizadehkenari, UK
Sanjay Sharma, UK
Ken Sharpe, Australia
Rob Shave, UK
Sarah Shultz, New Zealand
Stephen Simons, USA
Susan Sisson, USA
Nina Skjæret, Norway
Sabrina Skorski, Germany
Jean Slawinski, France
Mitchell Smith, Australia
Jordan Smith, Australia
Gerald Smith, USA
Rod Snow, Australia
Richard Souza, USA
Martijn Spruit, The Netherlands
Jamie Stanley, Australia
Stephen Stannard, New Zealand
Peter Stanwell, Australia
Liza Stathokostas, Canada
James Steele, UK
Trent Stellingwerff, Canada
Marta Stępień-Słodkowska, Poland
Lotte Steuten, USA
Michael Stickland, Canada
Michael Stone, USA
Sam Stuart, UK
Max Stuelcken, Australia
Shuichi Suetani, Australia
John Sutton, Australia
Paul Swinton, UK
Alberto Tagliafico, Italy
Erwin Tak, The Netherlands
Scott Talpey, Australia
Marcus Tartaruga, Brazil
Wolfgang Taube, Switzerland
Rod Taylor, UK
Adam Tenforde, USA
Olli Tenovuo, Finland
Nicolas Terrados, Spain
Hugo Theoret, Canada
Mario Thevis, Germany
Gaetano Thiene, Italy
David Thivel, France
Martin Thomas, UK
Kevin Thompson, Australia
Jane Thornton, Canada
Kevin Till, UK
Markus Tilp, Austria
Kyle Timmerman, USA
Toomas Timpka, Sweden
Lorena Torres-Ronda, Spain
Argyris Toubekis, Greece
Julio Tous-Fajardo, Spain
Mardie Townsend, Australia
Tahmine Tozman, Germany
Mark Tremblay, Canada
Joel Trinity, USA
N. Travis Triplett, USA
Yorghos Tripodis, USA
Tracey Tsang, Australia
Carole Tucker, USA
Anthony Turner, UK
Christopher Tyler, UK
Viswanath Unnithan, UK
Jeroen van Cutsem, Belgium
Roland van den Tillaar, Norway
Nick van der Horst, The Netherlands
Henk van der Worp, The Netherlands
Elsbeth van Dorssen, The Netherlands
Judy van Raalte, USA
Alain Vandal, New Zealand
Yannick Vandendijck, Belgium
Henry Vandewalle, France
Matthew Varley, Australia
Tommi Vasankari, Finland
Fabrice Vercruyssen, France
Evert Verhagen, The Netherlands
Geoffrey Verrall, Australia
Sam Vine, UK
Birte von Haaren, Germany
Katja Waller, Finland
Gareth Wallis, UK
Kevin Waninger, USA
John Wann, UK
Richard Washburn, USA
Jim Waterhouse, UK
Collin Webster, USA
Cailee Welch Bacon, USA
Daniel West, Canada
Wayne Westcott, USA
Maria Westin, Sweden
Kathryn Weston, UK
Matthew Weston, UK
Peter Weyand, USA
Erik Wikstrom, USA
Catherine Wild, Australia
Matthias Wilhelm, Switzerland
Gary Wilkerson, USA
Michael Wilkinson, UK
Jeffrey Willardson, USA
Barry Willer, USA
Andrew Williams, Australia
Nancy Williams, USA
Mark Williams, UK
Craig Williams, UK
Jonathan Wingo, USA
Edward Winter, UK
Lauren Wise, USA
Rob Withagen, The Netherlands
Harriet Wittink, The Netherlands
Alexander Woll, Germany
Barbara Wondrasch, Austria
Tom Wooldridge, USA
Eric Yoshida, Canada
Kaelin Young, USA
Warren Young, Australia
Joseph Zeni Jr, USA
Quan Jiang Zhang, USA
Ming Hao Zheng, Australia
Nina Zisko, Norway
Micah Zuhl, USA
Finally, we would like to offer our sincere thanks to the journal’s Honorary Editorial Board members, who have also acted as peer reviewers and authors, and have provided guidance on journal content, policy and processes:
Ezra Amsterdam, USA
Greg Atkinson, UK
J. Chris Baldi, New Zealand
Colin Boreham, Ireland
Martin Buchheit, France
Roger Enoka, USA
Caroline Finch, Australia
Carl Foster, USA
Urs Granacher, Germany
John Hawley, Australia
Patria Hume, New Zealand
Wilfried Kindermann, Germany
Paavo Komi, Finland
William Kraemer, USA
Susi Kriemler, Switzerland
David Lavallee, UK
Yann Le Meur, Monaco
Jeremy Loenneke, USA
Samuele Marcora, UK
Jacques Poortmans, Belgium
Roy Shephard, Canada
Perikles Simon, Germany
Alan St. Clair Gibson, New Zealand
Nigel Stepto, Australia
Joseph Torg, USA
Jos Twisk, The Netherlands
Willem van Mechelen, The Netherlands
We sincerely hope that you have found the articles published throughout 2016 to be both interesting and informative, and we look forward to keeping you up to date with topical issues in the sports and exercise medicine field in 2017.
With best wishes from
Roger Olney and Steve McMillan
Editors
Sports Medicine
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Acknowledgement to Referees. Sports Med 46, 1773–1779 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-016-0643-5
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