The theme of this Peer Review Week is diversity, and I paraphrase the original citation of M. Forbes, “Diversity: the art of thinking independently together,” because it says it all. In my last editorial, I addressed the issue of gender balance in the scientific publication process. I showed that eNeuro was gender-balanced, i.e., male and female last authors have a similar chance for their submitted paper to be accepted. The same result (gender balance) was found for first authors. I proposed that the double-blind review system was largely contributing to this success. Since the names of authors are not revealed to reviewers, they cannot, ideally, bias their evaluation on gender, country of origin, or reputation/status of the last author. However, in scientific journals, there is a potential bias that is not frequently taken into consideration, how reviewers are selected. When I acted as a Reviewing Editor for JNeurosci , I tried to choose the best reviewers for a given paper, i.e., those who provided exc...