Dear Dr. XXX,

On behalf of the editorial members and editors of the Journal of Mountain Science (JMS), I'd like to show my appreciation to your support to the JMS in the past year in paper review. Your valuable and high quality review comments have greatly helped with the improvement of the journal quality.

I'd like to invite you to join in the JMS editorial board to be a scientific editor. The scientific editor will do initial review and recommend peer-reviewers or be the responsible editor to handle the assigned manuscripts in your research fields, with the responsibility of inviting peer-reviewers and communicating with the authors, and editing the accepted papers according to the JMS journal style. Scientific editor can independently or cooperatively organize special issue or special topics articles after discussing with the editor-in-chief or executive editor-in-chief about the topics selection and the author sources.

We will establish a personal homepage for each scientific editor in the JMS homepage (http://jms.imde.ac.cn/web/21915/scientific-editors). The scientific editor will be included in the editorial board list in each issue. Scientific editors' articles will be published preferentially after the acceptance. Scientific editor will be invited or partially funded by the journal to participate in the editorial board conference or other academic symposium organized by the Journal or by our sponsored institution (Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

Journal of Mountain Science was founded in 2004 and included in SpringerLink in 2006, and indexed by ISI-Web of Science in 2007. The impact factor in 2013 was 0.762. Presently, the JMS has been indexed/included in more than 20 internationally important databases. According to Springer's data, the subscribed institution in 2013 was more than 7200. I believe your joining in the editorial board will furtherly improve the journal quality and enlarge the journal's international impact.

If you agree the invitation, you are kindly requested to fill in the attached form (with one of your personal image) and return within these days.

Best wishes and happy new year to you!

QIU Dunlian

Executvie editor-in-chief, Journal of Mountain Science