Editorial Excellence

Recognizing editors of journals with highly rated publishing experiences

These exceptional editors performed in the top 15% of qualifying journals* based on data collected from the Journal Author Satisfaction survey. 

Throughout the year we invite journal authors to provide feedback on their publishing experience. We reviewed the prior year's data to identify the journals that exemplified editorial excellence in 2025. The top percentile of journals was determined by taking the mean of authors ratings of two statements from a 5 point scale: strongly disagree (1), disagree (2), neutral (3), agree (4), strongly agree (5). 

Those statements are:

  1. "The editorial advice and comments throughout the process helped to improve the paper" 
  2. "The editors managed the peer review process well" 

We thank the exceptional editors, past and present, who contributed to these achievements, as well as all of our valued journal editors and board members, for their continued dedication to advancing research. The work, commitment, and passion brought to Springer Nature journals each day is greatly appreciated. 

The top 15% of qualifying journals

90% of authors that responded to the Journal Author Satisfaction survey ‘strongly agreed’ or ‘agreed’ with both of the statements about the editorial experience at these journals.*


10461AIDS and Behavior

Seth Kalichman





43034Annals of Functional Analysis

M.S. Moslehian




12243Annals of Telecommunications

Guy Pujolle 




12551Biophysical Reviews

Wilma Olson




43161Bulletin of Faculty of Physical Therapy

Faten Abdelazeim



12187Child Indicators Research

Asher Ben-Arieh, Bong Joo Lee, Daphna Gross-Manos, Tobia Fattore




13679Current Obesity Reports 

Giovanna Muscogiuri, Caroline Apovian



43926Discover Internet of Things

Ishfaq Ahmad



44202Discover Psychology

Ahmed Moustafa



12237Estuaries and Coasts

Paul Montagna, Just Cebrian, Melisa Wong




40368European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry 

David J. Manton





11483Food Biophysics

Michael A. Rogers




12105Head and Neck Pathology

Brenda L. Nelson, Peter M. Sadow




12026Immunologic Research

Sakir Ahmed, Nicola Bizzaro




42405International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences

SangJoon Shin




41042International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology

Jesus Alfonso Datu




531International Journal of Earth Sciences

Ulrich Riller




40891International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering

Sanjay Kumar Shukla




12138International Journal of the Classical Tradition

Jill Kraye, Sebastian Matzner, Carlotta Santini, Luis Unceta Gómez




11159International Review of Education

Paul Stanistreet




13187Journal of Cancer Education

Amr S. Soliman

13002Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Andrea Pieroni

11668Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention

Elvin Beach

12029Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Jordan Cloyd

10910Journal of Mathematical Chemistry

Paul G. Mezey

10956Journal of Science Education and Technology

Karen C. Cohen, Kent J. Crippen

10964Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Roger J. R Levesque

41872Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering

Prabhakar Varde

530Multimedia Systems

Changsheng Xu

12264Neuroscience Bulletin

Shu-Min Duan, Ru-Rong Ji

12298Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

Rana Pratap Singh, N. Raghuram

13237The Nucleus

Umesh C. Lavania

40515Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology 

Hoe I. Ling

11249Tribology Letters

Nicholas D. Spencer, Ashlie Martini, Juliette Cayer-Barrioz, David Burris

  
   

We also thank these editors whose journals scored in the top 25%. 

Mathematics, Physical and Applied Sciences

  • Acta Geochimica: Yongfei Zheng, Congqiang Liu, Yun Liu, Weidong Sun, Binbin Wang, Yan Zheng 
  • Acta Geophysica: Michal Malinowski, Roksana Chmielowska, Theodore Karacostas, Edyta Puskarczyk, F. Ramón Zúñiga, Ali Gholami, Roger Moussa, Subhasish Dey, Anne Neska 
  • Applied Composite Materials: Maria Kashtalyan 
  • BioNanoScience: Victor Erokhin 
  • Evolutionary Intelligence: Stefania Tomasiello 
  • International Journal of Metalcasting: Thomas Prucha 
  • Journal of Applied Electrochemistry: Gerardine G. Botte 
  • Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing: Chin-Hong Park 
  • Journal of Engineering Mathematics: Satish Kumar, Ory Schnitzer 
  • Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications: Urs Frauenfelder 
  • Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine: Sandra Van Vlierberghe 
  • Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A: K. Ramamurthy 
  • Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series D: N. R. Bandyopadhyay 
  • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society: Byung Dong Han, Jae-Chul Pyun, Csaba Balázsi, Kang Taek Lee, In-Hyuck Song, Seong-Min Jeong, Danilo Suvorov, Sung-Min Lee, Jin Young Kim, Pavol Sajgalik, Yoshiyuki Sugahara 
  • Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences: Basim H. Asghar 
  • Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Engineering and Architecture: Hamdy M. Youssef 
  • MAPAN: Shiv Kumar Jaiswal 
  • Multiscale and Multidisciplinary Modeling, Experiments and Design: Young Wuk Kwon 
  • Nano-Micro Letters: Yafei Zhang, Liying Zhang 
  • Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability: Dominic C.Y. Foo, Santanu Bandyopadhyay, Raymond Tan 
  • Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis: Gábor Lente 
  • Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences: Venkat Lakshmi 
  • Research on Chemical Intermediates: Masakazu Anpo, Jinlong Zhang 
  • Ricerche di Matematica: Florinda Capone 
  • Science China Life Sciences: Xiaofeng Cao, Kexing Hu 
  • Science China Materials: Yi Xie, Xuemei Zhang 
  • Structural Chemistry: Istvan Hargittai 
  • The Visual Computer: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann 
  • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials: Soo Young Kim 
  • Transition Metal Chemistry: Frédéric Barrière 
  • Water Conservation Science and Engineering: Christopher P. Saint, Meng Nan Chong

Medicine and Life Sciences

  • Acta Pharmacologica Sinica: Jian Ding 
  • Agricultural Research: Anupam Varma, Nagendra K. Singh 
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: Jia Liu 
  • Applied Fruit Science: Werner Dierend 
  • Aquaculture International: Gavin Burnell, Brian Austin, Daniel L. Merrifield 
  • Archives of Virology: Koray Ergunay 
  • Biologia: Stefan Janeček, Maria Kazimírová, Katarína Hegedüšová Vantarová 
  • Bratislava Medical Journal: Juraj Payer, Ivan Varga 
  • Bulletin of the National Research Centre: Yasser Refaat Abdel-Fattah, Ashraf Hamed Shaalan, Ihab Tewfik 
  • Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy: David Grieve 
  • Digestive Diseases and Sciences: Meghan Keeffe, Jonathan Kaunitz 
  • Ecological Processes: Jiaojun Zhu, Jiquan Chen 
  • Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette: Khaled H.K. Bahaaeldin 
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience: Andrea Schmitt, Peter Falkai 
  • European Geriatric Medicine: Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft 
  • European Journal of Pediatrics: Peter De Winter 
  • Experimental Brain Research: Bill J. Yates, Winston Byblow 
  • Food Analytical Methods: David Rodríguez-Lázaro 
  • Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences: Azza A Mahmoud 
  • Hernia: Giampiero Campanelli 
  • Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry: Praveen Sharma 
  • Indian Journal of Surgery: Vikram Kate 
  • Indian Pediatrics: Pooja Dewan 
  • Infection: Johannes Bogner 
  • International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries: Rajeev Chawla, S.V. Madhu 
  • International Urology and Nephrology: Antonio Bellasi, Michael Chancellor 
  • Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders: Bagher Larijani, Fatemeh Bandarian 
  • Journal of Human Hypertension: Sunil Nadar 
  • Journal of Molecular Histology: Heide Schatten 
  • Journal of Plant Pathology: M. Garbelotto 
  • Medicinal Chemistry Research: Longqin Hu 
  • Molecular Diversity: Kunal Roy, Hong-Yu Li 
  • Nutrire: Marcos Minicucci 
  • Plasmonics: Chris D. Geddes 
  • Proceedings of the Zoological Society: Dilip Mukherjee 
  • Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali: Vincenzo Aquilanti 
  • Spine Deformity: Rene M. Castelein 
  • Sugar Tech: Prakash Lakshmanan, R. Viswanathan 
  • The Cerebellum: Mario Manto 
  • Veterinary Research Communications: Fabrizio Ceciliani 
  • Virus Genes: Jürgen A. Richt, Joachim J. Bugert 
  • World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology: Jesus Mingorance, Nasib Qureshi 
  • Zoomorphology: Alexandra Kerbl

Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Agricultural and Food Economics: Liesbeth Dries, Gaetano Martino 
  • Applied Research in Quality of Life: Daniel Shek, Martijn Hendriks 
  • Empirical Economics: Robert M. Kunst, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Christopher F. Parmeter, Bertrand Candelon, Joakim Westerlund, Arthur H. O. Soest 
  • Global Social Welfare: Mary Mckay, Fred M. Ssewamala 
  • Human Arenas: Giuseppina Marsico, Luca Tateo 
  • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science: Jaan Valsiner 
  • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique: Anne Wagner 
  • Journal of Marketing Analytics: Anjala S. Krishen, Maria Petrescu 
  • Psychiatric Quarterly: Jonathan M. Depierro 
  • Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Ian W. Holloway 
  • Smart Learning Environments: Ronghuai Huang, Elliot Soloway, Ahmed Tlili, Elvira Popescu 
  • TechTrends: Lucas Vasconcelos 

Open Access

  • Cardiovascular Diabetology: Enrique Fisman, Francisco Westermeier 
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health: Andreas Witt 
  • Discover Civil Engineering: Adeyemi Adesina, Xi Jiang 
  • Discover Materials: Rodrigo Martins 
  • Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care: Giorgio Conti 
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health: Shannon Farley, Yousef Khader 
  • Journal of Neuroinflammation: Robert E. Mrak, Monica Carson, Tammy Kielian, Sue Griffin 
  • Research Involvement and Engagement: Richard Stephens, Sophie Staniszewska 
  • The Journal of Headache and Pain: Paolo Martelletti 

*Qualifying Criteria: Only journals with an external editorial board that receive ten or more responses from published corresponding authors in 2025 were considered in the analysis. The journal also had to receive an overall satisfaction score of or over the mean average for the year. From this selection of journals the top performing journals were chosen based on their mean score for the two statements “The editorial advice and comments throughout the process helped to improve the paper" and "The editors managed the peer review process well", asked about on a 5 point scale: strongly disagree (1), disagree (2), neutral (3), agree (4), strongly agree (5).