To publish an issue of Parasitology requires lots of help from “behind-the-scenes”. Over the last year, the journal successfully published 14 issues which collectively contain just over 150 articles in total. Two issues, numbers 12 and 14, were devoted to specialist topics originating from the Italian Society of Parasitology and Avian malaria theme, respectively.
In 2023, Parasitology successfully transitioned into full Open Access. This required several structural changes in the way manuscripts were handled through the publishing process yet one key activity, the peer-review process, remained unchanged. The editorial and publishing teams understand that reviewing a paper for Parasitology is no easy task.
Indeed, this year it remains a real privilege for our authors to have such expertise on call from just under 300 scientists from across the world. Thank you, once again, for making peer-review publication in Parasitology possible!
Here, we would like to take a moment to sincerely thank all our reviewers for their pro bono services to the journal in 2023, to our authors and to science in general.
Nidia Acosta, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay
Atheer H. Ali, University of Basrah, Iraq
Abdelghafar Alkishe, The University of Kansas, USA
Bassem Allam, Stony Brook University, USA
Paulina Alvarez Mendizabal, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Mexico
Leucio Alves, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Chrsitina Anaya, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, Georgia Southern University, USA
Rossana Arroyo, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Dmitry Atopkin, Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Russian Federation
Hamza Avcioglu, Ataturk University, Turkey
Carlos Azevedo, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Portugal
Francisco Javier Aznar, University of Valencia, Spain
Juan Antonio Balbuena, Universitat de València, Spain
Carlos Gustavo Baptista, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, USA
Iain Barber, Aberystwyth University, UK
Joel Barratt, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Michael Begon, University of Liverpool, UK
Jeffrey Bell, University of North Dakota, USA
Michal Benovics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Ian Beveridge, University of melbourne, Australia
Natalia Biserova, University of Kansas, USA
David Blair, James Cook University, Australia
Tiffany Bouchery, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland
Geoffrey Boxshall, Natural History Museum, UK
Klaus Brehm, University of Würzburg, Germany
Laura Brettell, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Julia Buck, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Center for Marine Science, USA
Dovilė Bukauskaitė, Gamtos tyrimr centras, Lithuania
Richard Bungiro, Yale School of Public Health, USA
Francesco Buono, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d'Alfort (ENVA), UK
Ivo Caldas, Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Brazil
Rafael Calero-Bernal, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Cyril Caminade, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy
Jianping Cao, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, China
Michael Cappello, Yale University, USA
David Carmena, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
Chris (Katharine C.) Carter, Strathclyde University, UK
Magali Casanova, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Rudi Cassini, Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health, Italy
Serena Cavallero, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Carolina Chagas, Nature Research Centre, Lithuania
Li Chao, Anhui Science and Technology University, China
Xuking Chen, Virginia Institute, USA
Arif Ciloglu, Erciyes Universitesi, Turkey
Graham Clark, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Joachim Clos, Bernhard Nocht Institut für Tropenmedizin, Germany
Eduardo Coelho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Courtney Cook, North-West University, South Africa
Alba Cortes, Facultad de Farmacia-Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Sofia Cortes, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Alice Costain, The University of Manchester, UK
Robert Cowie, University of Hawaii, USA
Thomas Cribb, University of Queensland, Australia
Charles Criscione, Texas A&M University, USA
Armando Cruz-Laufer, Hasselt University, Belgium
Scott Cutmore, University of Queensland, Australia
Krystyna Cwiklinski, University of Liverpool Institute of Infection Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, UK
Tad Dallas, Louisiana State University, USA
John Dalton, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Paul Denny, Durham University, UK
Peter Deplazes, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Yves Desdevises, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, France
Silvia Di Santi, Superintendencia de Controle de Endemias, Brazil
Stephen Doyle, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Anna Dubiec, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Meghan Duffy, University of Michigan, USA
Marcin Dziuba, University of Michigan, USA
Mostafa Elfawal, UMass Chan Medical School, USA
Claudia Esquivel, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Anna Faltynkova, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
José Fernandez-Robledo, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA
Marcelo Ferreira, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Brazil
Ivan Fiala, Biological Centre, AS CR, Czech Republic
Peter Fields, University of Basel, Switzerland
J Figuerola, EBD-CSIC, Spain
N Fraija, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
John Frean, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa
Brian Fredensborg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Caroline Frey, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada
Bastian Fromm, SciLifeLab, Sweden
Holly Gaff, Old Dominion University, USA
Spencer Galen, University of Scranton, USA
Cristian Gallardo-Escárate, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Terry Galloway, University of Manitoba, Canada
Rosana Gentile, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Paul Giacomin, James Cook University Cairns Campus, Australia
Gary Gibson, Canadian National Collection of Insects Arachnids and Nematodes, Canada
Wendy Gibson, Bristol University, UK
John Gilleard, University of Calgary, Canada
Emma Gillingham, UK Health Security Agency, UK
Selma Giorgio, Biology Institute, University of Campinas UNICAMP, Brazil
Cameron Goater, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Geoffrey Gobert, Queen's University Belfast, UK
David Gonzalez, El Colegio De La Frontera Sur, Mexico
Angie González, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Simon Goodman, University of Leeds, UK
Catherine Gordon, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia
Aditya Gupta, USDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USA
Ankit Gupta, Central Drug Research Institute, India
Pooja Gupta, State of Utah, USA
Theresa Gyorkos, McGill University, Canada
Manuel Haimovici, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil
Majid Fasihi Harandi, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran (the Islamic Republic of)
Hanna Hartikainen, University of Nottingham Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UK
Adam Hasik, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Hadas Hawlena, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Sara Healy, University of Surrey, UK
Hans Heesterbeek, Utrecht University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Netherlands
Andrew Hemphill, University of Bern, Switzerland
Michael Herman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Carolina Hernández-Lara, Nature Research Centre, Lithuania
Robert Hirt, Newcastle University, UK
Jane Hodgkinson, University of Liverpool, UK
Amber Gigi Hoi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Celia Holland, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland
Yoichiro Horii, University of Miyazaki, Japan
Laryssa Howe, Massey University, New Zealand
Yufei Huang, University of Dublin Trinity College, School of Business, Ireland
Abdul Jabbar, University of Melbourne, Australia
Fernando Jacinavicius, Instituto Butantan, Brazil
Joseph Jackson, University of Salford, UK
Susan Jarvi, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA
Gabriela Jeronimo, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
Tiantian Jiang, University of California San Diego, USA
Francisco Jimenez-Ruiz, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
Patricia Johnson, UCLA, USA
Pikka Jokelainen, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark
Alexandra Juhasz, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Patricia Kaishian, Bard College, USA
Ray Kaplan, University of Georgia, USA
Anssi Karvonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Frank Katzer, Moredun Research Institute, UK
Jane Kelley, Australia Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Australia
Archie Khan, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Ruth Kirk, Kingston University, UK
Hans Klompen, Ohio State University, USA
Wayne Knee, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Clemens Kocken, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Netherlands
Heather Kopsco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jules Kouadio, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Cote d'Ivoire, Côte d'Ivoire
Deborah Kristan, California State University San Marcos, USA
E. James La Course, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Kevin Lahmers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA
Xavier Lambin, University of Aberdeen, UK
Erin Lashnits, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Maria Latrofa, University of Bari, Italy
Matthieu Le Bailly, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comte, France
Jessica Light, Texas A&M University, USA
Marshall Lightowlers, The University of Melbourne, Australia
William Lin, Independent Scholar, USA
Tim Littlewood, Natural History Museum, UK
Guo-Hua Liu, Hunan Agricultural University, China
Claire Loiseau, Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos, Portugal
Ross Low, Earlham Institute, UK
Jasmina Ludoški, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Luis Madeira de Carvalho, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Wanchai Maleewong, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Carlos Martínez-Carrasco Pleite, Universidad de Murcia - Campus de Espinardo, Spain
Josué Martínez-de la Puente, University of Granada, Spain
Joaquina Martin-Sanchez, Granada University, Spain
Alfonso Marzal, University of Extremadura, Spain
Numair Masud, Cardiff University, UK
Alexander Mathis, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Sonja Matthee, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Simonetta Mattiucci, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Maria Paola Maurelli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Milton McAllister, University of Adelaide, Australia
Rory McDonnell, Oregon State University, USA
Sergei Medvedev, Zoologiceskij institut RAN, Russian Federation
Naunain Mehmood, University of Sargodha, Pakistan
Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan, University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy, Italy
Andrei Mihalca, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Sergey Mironov, FSBIS Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
David Modry, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Faculty of Agrobiology Food and Natural Resources, Czech Republic
Sean Monaghan, University of Stirling, UK
Paul Monis, Australian Water Quality Centre, Australia
Scott Monks, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Mexico
Antonio Montresor, WHO, Switzerland
Serge Morand, CNRS, France
Eric Morgan, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Russell Morphew, Aberystwyth University, UK
Grace Mulcahy, University College Dublin, Ireland
Sandrine Musa, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Lauren Nadler, University of Southampton, UK
Ryo Nakao, Hokkaido University, Japan
Abhijit Nandi, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, India
Rodrigo Narciso, São Paulo State University Institute of Biosciences, Brazil
Giuseppe Nascetti, Tuscia University, Italy
Elena Nassonova, Institute of Cytology RAS, Russian Federation
Gilmar Neves, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
Chris Niebuhr, Landcare Research New Zealand, New Zealand
Marcelo Oliva, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile
Francisco Olmo, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Peter Olson, The Natural History Museum, UK
Marketa Ondrackova, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Republic
Domenico Otranto, University of Bari, Italy
Hitoshi Otsuki, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Argun Akif Özak, Cukurova Universitesi, Turkey
Vaidas Palinauskas, Nature Research Centre, Lithuania
Camila Pantoja, Curso de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Veterinárias, Brazil
Barbara Paoletti, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Italy
Gregorio Perez-Cordon, University of Granada Faculty of Pharmacy, Spain
Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minnot, Université de Bourgogne, France
Giulio Petroni, University of Pisa, Italy
Mario Pinilla-Gallego, AGROSAVIA, Colombia
Hans Pohl, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Petras Prakas, Nature Research Centre, Lithuania
Whitney Preisser, University of Washington, USA
Roger Prichard, McGill University, Canada
Iva Přikrylová, University of Limpopo, Turfloop Campus, South Africa
Meng Qi, Henan Agricultural University, China
R Rae, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Amruta Rajarajan, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in the Forschungsverbund Berlin eV, Germany
Haseeb Randhawa, University of Iceland, Iceland
Maria Teresa Reinoso-Perez, Cornell University, USA
Dania Richter, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Mark Robinson, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Michael Rogan, University of Salford, UK
Gemma Rojo, Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile
David Rollinson, The Natural History Museum, UK
Thomas Romig, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Bruce Rosa, Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, USA
Andrew Rowley, Swansea University, UK
Sonja Rueckert, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Urmas Saarma, University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Estonia
Harold Salant, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, Israel
Maria Santos, Faculty of Sciences UP, Portugal
Davide Sassera, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
Yukita Sato, Iwate University, Japan
Bahram Sayyaf Dezfuli, University of Ferrara, Italy
Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Center of Natural History Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, UK
Tomas Scholz, Institute of Parasitology, AS CR, Czech Republic
Marilyn Scott, McGill University, Canada
Otto Seppälä, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Jeffrey Shields, Virginia Institute of Marine, USA
Pavel Široký, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, Czech Republic
Jan Slapeta, University of Sydney, Australia
Brad E. E. Sleebs, University of Melbourne, Australia
John Smit, EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten, Netherlands
Nico Smit, North-West University, South Africa
Georges Snounou, UPMC/INSERM UMR S 945, France
Woon-Mok Sohn, Gyeongsang National Univresity College of Medicine, Korea (the Republic of)
Chinnaiyan Soundararajan, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, UK
Jacek Sroka, National Veterinary Institute - National Research Institute, UK
Naima Starkloff, Emory University, USA
Peter Steinmann, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland
Russell Stothard, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Christina Strube, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
Xi Sun, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Ala Tabor, The University of Queensland, Australia
Kevin Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tiana Tasca, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Samuel Teixeira, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil
Richard Thompson, Murdoch University, Australia
Juan Timi, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Argentina
Vasyl Tkach, University of North Dakota, USA
Rafael Toledo, Facultad de Farmacia-Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Paul Torgerson, Vetsuisse Faculty at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
Joseph Turner, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Kevin Tyler, University of East Anglia, UK
Geral Umhang, Anses Rabies and Wildlife Laboratory, France
Julio Urbina, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Andrea Valigurová, Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Czech Republic
Gediminas Valkiūnas, Nature Research Centre, Lithuania
Lisette van Lieshout, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Antonio Varcasia, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy
Jefferson Vaughan, University of North Dakota, USA
Vincenzo Veneziano, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Fabrizia Veronesi, University of Perugia, Italy
Jaco Verweij, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Ziekenhuis, Netherlands
Petr Volf, Charles University, Czech Republic
Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Chun-Ren Wang, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, China
Elizabeth Warburton, University of Georgia, USA
Marion Wassermann, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Matthew Wayland, University of Cambridge, UK
Andreia Wendt, University of Bern, Switzerland
Marius Wenzel, University of Aberdeen, UK
Alan Wilson, University of York Department of Biology, UK
Radosław Włodarczyk, University of Lodz Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Poland
Chengzhong Yang, Chongqing Normal University, China
Ana Yatsuda, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Vyacheslav Yurchenko, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Patricia Zajaczkowski, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Longxian Zhang, Henan Agricultural University, China
Annetta Zintl, University College Dublin, Ireland