Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of International Journal of Financial Studies in 2025
3 February 2026
The editorial office of International Journal of Financial Studies (IJFS) would like to extend its sincere gratitude to all reviewers who contributed to the improvement of the journal quality by providing their expert opinion and evaluation of the submitted research.
We appreciate that thorough peer review demands considerable time and intellectual investment from our reviewers. In 2025, IJFS received 1685 review reports from contributors across 70 countries and territories, demonstrating the breadth of international expertise and scholarly engagement that has strengthened our publication standards.
The reviewers who agreed to have their names published this year are listed below in alphabetical order by first name. The editorial team acknowledges with gratitude all reviewers, named and anonymous alike, for their vital role in maintaining the scholarly standards of IJFS.
| Abdelkader Aguir | Lu Liu |
| Abdurrahman Pantamee Adamu Pantamee | Luccas Attílio |
| Abhishek Sharma | Lucia Morosan-Danila |
| Adel Ahmed | Luís Lima Santos |
| Adina Dornean | Lukasz Gebski |
| Adrian Sawyer | Lukasz Kurylowicz |
| Agata Gniadkowska - Szymańska | Magdalena Maciaszczyk |
| Ágnes Csiszárik-Kocsir | Magdi El-Bannany |
| Agostino Poggi | Malar Kumaran Rathnaswamy |
| Ajay Kumar Shrestha | Manuel Tupia |
| Alberto Citterio | Marcelo Werneck Barbosa |
| Alberto Gudiño-Ochoa | Marcin Nowak |
| Alexandra-Gabriela Marina | Marcin Potrykus |
| Alina Hlushko | Margareta Teodorescu |
| Anastasia Ljovkina | Maria Carmen Huian |
| Andrei Borsa | Maria Ciurea |
| Andrey Afanasiev | Maria Osipenko |
| Angelo Leogrande | Marko Van Deventer |
| Anna Irena Szymańska | Marwan Mansour |
| Anna Kowal-Pawul | Maryem Naili |
| Anna Manowska | Massimiliano Kaucic |
| Antoine B. Awad | Miguel Cuerdo-Mir |
| Antonio Eduardo Martins | Mihaela Onofrei |
| Aristidis Anagnostakis | Mihaela Simionescu |
| Arne Johannssen | Mihaela Tudose |
| Aurel Burciu | Minh Tam Tammy Schlosky |
| Aureliano Bressan | Minjung Kang |
| Baiding Hu | Muhammad Kashif |
| Bambang Leo Handoko | Muhammad Ramzan |
| Barbara Pisker | Muzaffar Iqbal |
| Baridhi Malakar | Nadiia Shmygol |
| Bartosz Kurek | Narcis Eduard Mitu |
| Beata Zofia Filipiak | Nataliia Yaroshevych |
| Billal Hossain | Nuno Miguel Delicado Teixeira |
| Blandyna Anna Puszer | Nursel Selver Ruzgar |
| Bogdan Andrei Dumitrescu | Olena Ivashko |
| Branimir Kalaš | Olexandr Yemelyanov |
| Brian W Sloboda | Olga González-Morales |
| Carla Manuela Teixeira Carvalho | Omar Ikbal Tawfik |
| Carlos Sampaio | Oudgou Mohamed |
| Cătălin Barbu | Özgür Ömer Ersin |
| Catalin Gheorghe | Patricia A. Ryan |
| Chang Gan | Paul W Grimes |
| Chengyu Li | Philip Thiagan Sinnadurai |
| Chia-Yang Lin | Piotr Nowak |
| Clinton Watkins | Prathibha Joshi |
| Cristian Valeriu Stanciu | Qaisar Ali |
| Daiva Tamulevičienė | Qi Ban |
| Daniel Badulescu | Radka Macgregor Pelikanova |
| Daniele Landi | Radka Macgregor Pelikánová |
| Dariusz Siudak | Radoslaw Wolniak |
| Daxin Dong | Radosveta Krasteva-Hristova |
| Debao Dai | Rafał Pitera |
| Diana Yurievna Boboshko | Ramona Orastean |
| Dmitriy Chulkov | Raul Matsushita |
| Dmytro Zakharov | Ravi Lonkani |
| Domenico Marino | Raymond A. K. Cox |
| Dora Almeida | Raymundo Diaz |
| Dorota Czerwińska-Kayzer | Reginald Kadzutu |
| Dusan Schreiber | Richard Mawulawoe Ahadzie |
| E. M. Ekanayake | Robert Nowacki |
| Economic Setiawan | Roberta Martino |
| Edmund Bwire Bwire | Rodica Gabriela Blidișel |
| Elena L. Makarova | Roman Ivanov |
| Emmanouil Sofianos | Rostyslav Slav’Yuk |
| Emmanuel Senyo Fianu | Rui Bertuzi Da Silva |
| Emna Trabelsi | Saddam A. Hazaea |
| Endri Endri | Sandra Bernardo |
| Eyup Kahveci | Santosh Reddy Addula |
| Fabiano Bargos | Sayyed Khawar Abbas |
| Fabio Albuquerque | Sergej Gričar |
| Francesco Rania | Sergey Mikhailovich Vasin |
| Frederic De Mariz | Sergio Rossi |
| Gary Wayne Van Vuuren | Seyed Alireza Athari |
| Geng Wu | Shigeyuki Hamori |
| Giovanni De Luca | Silvia Zarkova |
| Grzegorz Michalski | Silviya Kostova |
| Guangfan Sun | Siniša Bogdan |
| Guido Abate | Slimane Ed-Dafali |
| Guna Sekhar Sajja | Sonja D. Radenković |
| Guofeng Wang | Sorinel Capusneanu |
| Hafiz Naveed | Spyros Repousis |
| Haijin Lin | Stanimir Ivanov Kabaivanov |
| Helena Costa Oliveira | Stefan Catana |
| Hong Sun | Stephen Jones |
| Honorata Barbara Howaniec | Tadeusz Kufel |
| Ionela Munteanu | Takuo Higashide |
| Irina Daniela Cismasu | Tamara Gajić |
| Irina Georgescu | Tarek Eldomiaty |
| Iryna Kondrat | Tatiana Danescu |
| Isabel Maldonado | Teresa Maria Dias Paiva |
| Istrate Istrate | Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno |
| Ivan V. Rozmainsky | Tsvetelin S. Zaevski |
| Ivana Matijević | Tuoyuan Cheng |
| Jacek Zyga | Valentin Burca |
| Jakub Keller | Valentyn Khokhlov |
| Janusz Majewski | Valeriu Daniel Brabete |
| Jawad Saleemi | Vasyl Hyk |
| Jens Kai Perret | Viktor Shevchuk |
| Jiafeng Gu | Viktoriia Vovk |
| Jianbin Wu | Vitali Alexeev |
| Jie Gao | Vladimir Ristanović |
| Joanna Dynowska | Waheed Ullah Shah |
| João Jungo | Waleed S Alruwaili |
| Jordana Marques Kneipp | Wali Muhammad Khoso |
| Jorge De Andrés-Sánchez | Wei Li |
| José Carlos Trejo-García | Wil Martens |
| Joseph Samuel Akpan | Xianpu Xu |
| Judit Beke Lisanyi | Xunfa Lu |
| Julien Chevallier | Yameng Wang |
| Jungyeon Sung | Yanko Hristozov |
| Justyna Łukomska-Szarek | Yi-Chang Chen |
| Jyh-Horng Lin | Yinghao Chen |
| Karim Farag | Yizhe Zhang |
| Kazeem Sanusi | Yoko Shirasu |
| Keyue Yan | Yongrok Choi |
| Khalil Alnabulsi | Yoshihiko Kadoya |
| Knut Anton Mork | Yuan Wang |
| Konstantinos A. Dimitriadis | Yugang He |
| Konstantinos Vergos | Yuri Biondi |
| Kristina Rudžionienė | Zhelyo Zhelev |
| Krzysztof Kil | Zhengyang Chen |
| Kshipra Jain | Zhenlong Jiang |
| László Csaba | Zhenqing Su |
| Leontina Pavaloaia | Zhonghui Zhang |
| Lilia Grigoroi | Zoltán András Dániel |
| Liliana Bunescu |