Peer Review at JGIM

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The JGIM editorial team thanks the many talented people who have volunteered their time as peer reviewers for the journal from July 2020 to June 2021. The pandemic has had an enormous impact, and journals including JGIM have also had to pivot. JGIM submissions increased from 1624 in 2017 to 3716 in 2020. While we had a brand new content area related to COVID-19, there was a steady stream of wonderful work unrelated to COVID-19. In 2020, submissions came from 57 different countries. While most submissions (n = 2419) were from the USA, 374 came from China, 98 from Canada, and 76 from Japan; 20 countries submitted 15 or more manuscripts. We could not have handled this dramatic increase without the dedicated work of our pool of associate editors and reviewers; we are very grateful for their hard work and dedication to professionalism. …