Xu Wen
Southwest University, China
Editor-in-Chief of Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
https://sfleducation.springeropen.com/
Although 2020 was a year of unpredictability due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and we have been faced with a great deal of challenges, on behalf of the publisher, Springer Nature, and the editorial board of the Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, we are deeply grateful to the reviewers of the journal in 2020. As it is rightly endorsed, peer review is the building block of journal publication. Without distinguished and committed scholars who voluntarily review the submissions, no journal can keep publishing high quality and timely research papers and we are not an exception too.
As already announced in an editorial announcement on the journal’s website, 2020 has been a turning point in the history of Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education as the journal is accepted in Scopus since 2020. Now, the journal is indexed in ESCI-WOS and Scopus. We also started publishing special issues. Presently, submission for a special issue titled ‘Technology in the teaching and assessment of writing’, a timely special issue regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of technology in education in this era, edited by Hayo Reinders and Hassan Mohebbi to be published in 2021 is open.
In sum, we wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to the persons listed below as the reviewers of the journal in 2020. Without their scholarly contribution and commitment, we were not able to keep publishing high-quality research papers.
List of Reviewers in 2020:
Gilakjani Abbas Pourhosein | Alireza Ahmadi | |
Zahra Ahmadpour Kasgari | Minoo Alemi | |
Iman Bakhoda | Amare Tesfie Birhan | |
Kazumi Matsumoto Cantrell | Jing Chen | |
Sibo Chen | Tay Dennis | |
Richard Draeger Jr | Saman Ebadi | |
Rajab Esfandiari | Majid Farahian | |
Parisa Farrokh | Esmaeel Hamidi | |
Min Huang | Mingjie Huo | |
Khadijeh Jafari | Shengxi Jin | |
Paul Leeming | Jingya Li | |
Ming Li | Fuli Liu | |
Min Lu | Junjun Ma | |
Steven G.B. MacWhinnie | Hussein Meihami | |
Zohre Mohamadi Zenouzagh | Hassan Mohebbi | |
Akiko Nagao | Ehsan Namaziandost | |
Akram Nayernia | Musa Nushi | |
Ayşegül Okay | Ali Panahi | |
Reza Pishghadam | Vahid Rafieyan | |
Mojgan Rashtchi | Firooz Sadighi | |
Goodarz Shakibaei | Hosein Vafadar | |
Beilei Wang | Ying Wang | |
Mingjun Wu | Wei Xiao | |
Toshinori Yasuda | ||
It should be mentioned that we wish to extend the reviewer’s panel in 2021. Therefore, researchers who are interested in doing a review for the journal may contact the journal and send their CV, including their pages on ORCID and Publons.