Editorial Excellence

Recognizing editors of journals with highly rated publishing experiences

These exceptional editors performed in the top 10% 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 2023. 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 10% of qualifying journals

100% 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.*


40066Agriculture & Food Security

Fabio Santeramo





12243Annals of Telecommunications

Guy Pujolle




43452Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

Zbigniew Gronostajski




12551Biophysical Reviews

Damien Hall




40315Computational Methods and Function Theory

Pekka Koskela, Doron Lubinsky



10649Educational Studies in Mathematics

Susanne Prediger, David Wagner




10672Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

Shih Chou



41066Granular Computing

Shyi-Ming Chen, Witold Pedrycz



418Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Takehiko Koji, Jürgen Roth, Michael Schrader, Douglas J. Taatjes




10797International Tax and Public Finance

David R. Agrawal, Ronald B. Davies, Nadine Riedel




11292Journal of Experimental Criminology

Wesley Jennings





10964Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Roger J. R. Levesque




12944Lipids in Health and Disease

A. M. Abd El-Aty




11043Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials

Igor Emri, Hongbing Lu




13041Molecular Brain

Graham Collingridge, Bong-Kiun Kaang, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Min Zhuo




11540Potato Research

Paul Struik




10329Primates

Shoji Kawamura




43450Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia

Rogelio Pereda-Miranda




11195Sexuality and Disability

Sigmund Hough




12115Society

Daniel Gordon




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

Mathematics, Physical and Applied Sciences


Medicine and Life Sciences


Humanities and Social Sciences


Open Access


*Qualifying Criteria: Only journals with an external editorial board that receive ten or more responses from published corresponding authors in 2023 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).