In 2025, ACR 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.
January, 2025
Aditya Mahadevan, University of California, USA
January, 2025
Aditya Mahadevan
Dr. Aditya Mahadevan is a resident physician in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his biochemistry degree at the University of California San Diego, followed by medical school at the University of California Irvine. As he continues his training in pursuit of a career in medical oncology, his research focus has shifted toward gastrointestinal and genitourinary malignancies and management of immune-related adverse events (iRAEs). Learn more about him here.
According to Dr. Mahadevan, peer review plays a key role in advancing scientific discovery. Reviewers have a responsibility to not only verify the accuracy of a manuscript’s comments, but also to aid in improving a manuscript for a journal’s readership.
In Dr. Mahadevan’s opinion, an objective review includes an assessment of a manuscript’s value to the scientific community, rigor, and thorough analysis of the manuscript’s strengths and weaknesses. When reviewing a manuscript, he tries to evaluate these characteristics as independently as possible to respect the time spent by the authors in performing experiments and drafting a manuscript for peer review.
“As a budding translational investigator, I am driven by a desire to help my patients through not only direct patient care, but through innovation and discovery. Peer review allows me to appreciate and evaluate the innovation of others in our pursuit of improving patient care,” says Dr. Mahadevan.
(by Lareina Lim, Brad Li)
