In 2024, AOS reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.
Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.
February, 2024
Guglielmo Mantica, University of Genova, Italy
February, 2024
Guglielmo Mantica
Dr. Guglielmo Mantica is currently a urologist consultant at the IRCCS Policlinico San Martino, Italy and assistant professor of urology at the University of Genova. From 2017 to 2018, he attended a fellowship at Tygerberg Hospital, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, where he increased his skills and knowledge in trauma surgery, endourology and reconstructive surgery with special focus on penile transplantation. From 2018 to 2019, he was a consultant at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy. He has been an active member of urological societies since the beginning of his residency. He is currently full member of the YAU - Trauma and reconstructive urology group, associate panelist of the EAU – Guidelines on Urological infections, associate member of ESGURS and a SIU innovators full member. His main interests are minimally invasive urology (robotic surgery and laparoscopy), endourology, trauma and reconstructive urology. He is author of about 160 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and 7 book chapters. He is a reviewer for more than 50 urological and surgical journals and for some of most important urology meetings. Connect with him on Twitter/X @ManticaGu and learn more about him here.
Peer review is a fundamental process in the world of scientific publishing. Dr. Mantica believes that the role of peer review is not only to accept or reject manuscripts, but to give truthfulness and method to scientific literature from time to time. The reviewer has a fundamental role, which is to select potential articles that can provide input to readers and that can give an impulse to current scientific knowledge.
From Dr. Mantica’s point of view, the key thing to do as a reviewer is to keep in mind the possible importance of the research submitted. If the research is of good quality, the role of the reviewer becomes that of advising the author on how to improve his/her presentation. A fundamental thing remains respect for the research presented by the authors. A reviewer must always remember the time and effort that such research may have cost the authors, and therefore must always respect it.
“The possibility of being able to actively impact world literature as an author is certainly stimulating, but it is equally stimulating to be able to do so passively, providing valuable advice to other authors and editors,” says Dr. Mantica.
(by Lareina Lim, Brad Li)
