Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Condensed Matter maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 36 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 26 days and the median time to publication was 56 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Adhikari, Rajdeep | Kugel, Kliment |
| Agoritsas, Elisabeth | Kumar, Dushyant |
| Arutyunov, Konstantin | Kuzemsky, A. L. |
| Awana, Veer P.S. | Lee, Changgu |
| Ban, Masashi | Lin, Feng-li |
| Barbiellini, Bernardo | Lupi, Stefano |
| Benseman, Timothy M. | Maignan, Antoine |
| Boettcher, Igor | Merino, Gabriel |
| Bulka, Bogdan | Miao, Guoxing |
| Bussmann-Holder, Annette | Milosevic, Milorad |
| Caprara, Sergio | Mizuguchi, Yoshikazu |
| Carretta, Pietro | Murai, Shunsuke |
| Caruntu, Gabriel | Nass, Karol |
| Chandrasekharan, Shailesh | Neil, Ethan |
| Chaves, Anderson Silva | Novikova, Irina |
| Continentino, Mucio Amado | Olsen, Murray K |
| Czechowski, Zbigniew | Ozaki, Toshinori |
| De Mello, Evandro Vidor Lins | Palacios, Juan Jose |
| Delfanazari, Kaveh | Patrascu, Andrei |
| Edgar, James H. | Pellegrino, F. M. D. |
| Fancher, Chris M. | Pinheiro, Mario |
| Ferdeghini, Carlo | Poccia, Nicola |
| Fortune, Nathanael A. | Požek, Miroslav |
| Francesco, Stellato | Ptok, Andrzej |
| Franz, Marcel | Ramanathan, Shriram |
| Ganichev, Sergey | Reshchikov, Michael |
| Goto, Yosuke | Santschi, Christian |
| Grbić, Mihael | Sokolowski, Moritz |
| Gutierrez-Heredia, Gerardo | Son, Junwoo |
| Haindl, Silvia | Song, Can-Li |
| Hasegawa, Takayuki | Stone, Michael |
| He, Lianyi | Svistunov, Boris |
| Hehl, Friedrich W. | Symko, Orest G. |
| Holzmann, Markus | Tomków, Łukasz |
| Hospodková, Alice | Torres Del Castillo, Gerardo F. |
| Ibison, Michael | Tringides, Michael |
| Ichikawa, Masakazu | Tsujino, Soichiro |
| Johnston, Steven | Turner, Philip |
| Kalska-Szostko, Beata | Uhrig, Götz S. |
| Kang, Jian | Usui, Hidetomo |
| Kapsalis, Vassilis | Valletta, Antonio |
| Kibler, Maurice | Villegas, César E.P. |
| Klimin, Serghei | Welander, Paul B |
| Koblischka, Michael Rudolf | Yamakawa, Youichi |
| Koren, Gad | Yang, Fan |
| Koumoulis, Dimitrios | Zarenia, Mohammad |
| Koutroulakis, Georgios | Zhai, Hua-Jin |
| Krztoń-Maziopa, Anna | Zhou, You |
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