Abstract
It has been a year since my first two editorials as the new Editor of Nursing Ethics. One of these editorials focused on ‘The good editor’, suggesting that an editor assumes a number of roles, and requires a range of qualities and also the support and expertise of reviewers and the editorial team.1 A year on, and now not so new, I can better appreciate the importance of good reviewers. Throughout the year I have relied on the wisdom and guidance of experienced reviewers. I have also had the pleasure of working with new reviewers, some of whom ask me for feedback. Such requests require some consideration of what it is that makes a good review and, related to this, a good reviewer.