We are thrilled to share the updated Exceptional Reviewers List 2025. This program was designed to recognize and honor scholars who have delivered consistently exceptional review reports to our journal.

Committed to fostering rigorous research and promoting knowledge exchange, Water (ISSN: 2073-4441) recognizes the significant role our reviewers play in maintaining the quality and integrity of the articles we publish. According to surveys conducted in 2024, 92% of our authors rate the journal’s peer-review process as good or excellent, thanks to our pool of excellent reviewers.

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the reviewers who have generously volunteered their time and expertise to assist in Water’s peer-review process. Their dedication and attention to detail in evaluating manuscripts, offering valuable feedback, and contributing to academic rigor are truly commendable.

The Exceptional Reviewers List was introduced in May 2024. Each quarter, we will select a group of outstanding reviewers and introduce them here.

Q1
Name: Dr. Igor Leščešen
Affiliation: Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Name: Dr. Antonija Kulaš
Affiliation: Division of Botany, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Name: Prof. Dr. Jorge Manuel Vieira Pamplona
Affiliation: CCT – Earth Sciences Centre, Earth Sciences Department of Sciences School, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal

Name: Dr. Caihong Hu
Affiliation: School of Water Conservancy and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Name: Dr. Tiegang Zheng
Affiliation: China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China

Name: Dr. J.H. van Boxel (John)
Affiliation: Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Name: Prof. Dr. António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Name: Dr. John Clive Radcliffe
Affiliation: Environment Research Unit, CSIRO, Waite Campus, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Name: Dr. Robert Machowski
Affiliation: Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Name: Prof. Dr. Jesús M. Mercado
Affiliation: Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO)-CSIC, Málaga, Spain

Name: Dr. Panagiota A. Galiatsatou
Affiliations: ¹ Division of Strategic Planning, Hydraulic Works & Development, Department of Geoinformatics, Surveying & Hydraulic Modelling, Thessaloniki, Greece; ² Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Name: Dr. Steven Joel Goldstein
Affiliation: Guest Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Name: Dr. Xizhi Nong
Affiliation: Dr. Department of Hydraulic Engineering, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, China

Name: Dr. Qin Qian
Affiliation: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, USA

Name: Prof. Dr. Rinaldo Genevois
Affiliation: Engineering Geology, Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Name: Dr. Zheng Lu
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, School of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Name: Prof. Dr. Sanda-Carmen Georgescu
Affiliation: Department of Hydraulics, Hydraulic Machinery and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Energy Engineering, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Name: Dr. Rashmi Semwal
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

Name: Dr. Yuke Wang
Affiliation: School of Water Conservancy and Transportation, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Name: Dr. Christina Kranz
Affiliation: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Q2:
Name: Prof. Dr. Alessio Radice
Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy

Name: Prof. Dr. Pierfranco Lattanzi
Affiliation: CNR-IGG, UOS Firenze, 50121 Firenze, Italy

Name: Dr. Timothy Bartrand
Affiliation: Environmental Science, Policy and Research Institute, Narberth, PA 19072, USA

Name: Prof. Dr. Tien-Hsi Fang
Affiliation: Department of Marine Environmental Informatics, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelun, Taiwan

Name: Dr. Filipe Romão
Affiliation: CERIS—Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Name: Prof. Dr. Anna Kozak
Affiliation: Water Protection Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Name: Prof. Dr. Steven G. Pueppke
Affiliation: Asia Hub and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, USA

Name: Dr. Ana Machado
Affiliation: ICBAS—UP, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal

Name: Dr. Neda Nikou
Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Name: Dr. Halil İbrahim Senol
Affiliation: Harran University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Şanlıurfa, Türkiye

Name: Dr. Maksymilian Cieśla
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, Rzeszow University of Technology, Powstańców Warszawy 12 Av., 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland

Name: Prof. Dr. André Aguiar
Affiliation: Federal University of Itajubá - Unifei, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Name: Dr. Filippo Mazzoni
Affiliation: Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy

Name: Dr. Michael Nones
Affiliation: Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-452 Warsaw, Poland

Name: Dr. Justyna Kubicz
Affiliation: Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences: Wrocław, dolnośląskie, PL

Name: Dr. Yongli Wang
Affiliation: Department of Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States

Name: Dr. Antonio Albuquerque
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Beira Interior, 6201‐001 Covilhã, Portugal

Name: Dr. Kamil Pochwat
Affiliation: Department of Infrastructure and Water Management, Rzeszow University of Technology, al. Powstańców Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland

Name: Prof. Dr. Jassiel V. H. Fontes
Affiliation: Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Amazonas State University

Name: Dr. Tingting Han
Affiliation: School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China