James is a member of the leadership group at the open review journal eLife, serving as a Senior Editor. He is currently an Editorial board member of Cell Metabolism (since 2004 - only Australian to have been invited); Journal of Clinical Investigation, Cell Stress (since 2017). He reviews ~30 manuscripts/year for journals like Nature, Nat Cell Biol, Nature Med, Science, PNAS, Cell Metab, J Clin Invest, J Biol Chem, Mol Endo, Endocrinology, Mol Cell Biol, Mol Biol Cell, J Cell Biol, Traffic, FASEB J, Gene Dev.