A total of 383 (22.1%) reviewers declined to review because of limitation of time or inadequate specialty. However, 175 (10.1%) of 1731 reviewers gave no comments after acceptance of the review. The 571 reviewers provided a total of 997 review comments; 111 provided two reviews, 37 provided 3, and 20 provided 4 or more. The editor scored the reviewers' response considering both efforts and contents from 1 to 5; score 1 for poor efforts and contents, 2 for poor efforts or contents, 3 for acceptable, 4 for commendable, 5 for exceptional, hard to improve. With mean scoring of 3.4, and the frequencies by the scoring are 4 (0.8%) for score 1, 126 (25.1%) for score 2, 296 (59.0%) for score 3, 73 (14.5%) for score 4, and 3 (0.6%) for score 5.

The JKMS appreciates timely professional voluntary contribution of all reviewers as listed below. Top reviewers in 2013 were 76, who received score 5 or 4 and multiple reviews. An asterisk on the name identifies them on the list.