In 2024, AOT reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

February, 2024
Robert Pichler, Kepler University Hospital, Austria

February, 2024

Robert Pichler

Robert Pichler currently serves as Head of Institute of Nuclear Medicine (Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria at the Neuromed Campus; and PEK Hospital Steyr, Austria). He grew up and attended school in Linz at the Danube, a middle-sized town with an industrial history. Then, he studied medicine, communication and sociology at the University of Vienna and received a degree of MD and PhD. Later, he attended the course of Tropical Medicine at the Bernhard Nocht Institute in Hamburg, Germany, followed by two years of hospital work in Colombia in Girardot and Santa Fé de Bogotá. After that, he returned to his hometown. His focuses in clinics and investigation are endocrinology – especially neuroendocrinology - and neuro nuclear imaging.

Dr. Pichler thinks that a constructive review always focuses upon if it is new or it is of relevance. Considering the way of presentation, a good reviewer can be the authors’ adviser. Only looking for mistakes and problematic expressions will possibly lead to a destructive review.

“I was kindly asked to review for Annals of Thyroid (AOT) – as AOT promotes better understanding of pathophysiology and diseases of the thyroid, I am glad if I could be of some help,” says Dr. Pichler.

(by Lareina Lim, Brad Li)