8 July 2026
Honoring the Top 1000 Reviewers for 2025


Peer review is the invisible foundation of academic progress. The 2025 MDPI Top Reviewers are some of the key experts who helped build it.

We are honored to recognize 1000 individuals from our global community of 210,000 reviewers across 67 countries and territories—chosen for their commitment to rigorous, constructive peer review and the consistency of their contributions throughout 2025.

The Top Reviewers provided constructive and impartial feedback that makes research stronger and more impactful, and we are grateful for it.

The names of these reviewers are listed below in alphabetical order by first name:

A. N. M. Mamun-Or-Rashid

Han Wu

Nijia Qian

Abdallah Galal

Hani Nasser Abdelhamid

Nikola Petrović

Abdeljabbar Ghanmi

Hanstter Rezende

Nina Mendez-Dominguez

Abdelmalek Bellal

Han-Tsung Wang

Nora Ahmed

Abdelnasser Abidli

Hao Tang

Nurcan Kilinc-Ata

Abderrahim Ayad

Haodong Chen

Oğuzhan Çetindemir

Abdulkadir Atalan

Haoxuan Dong

Oksana Kovtun

Abid Ullah

Hassan Barakat

Oluwagbemiga Paul Agboola

Adeney De Freitas Bueno

Hassan Harb

Omar Alsetoohy

Agnieszka Synowiec

Hebat-Allah Sarhan Tohamy

Ömer Kaya

Agnishwar Girigoswami

Héctor Mora-Montes

Omneya Attallah

Agustín Ariño

Hengkai Li

Orestis M. Ioannidis

Ahmadjan Muhammadhaji

Hengrui Liu

Oscar Arias-Carrion

Ahmadreza Mohebbi

Hiroshi Matsuyama

Osmar Antonio Jaramillo Morales

Ahmed Gad

Ho Namgung

Palash Mandal

Ahmed Ghezal

HoangNam Tran

Panayiotis Iliakis

Ahmed Mohamed Nabil Helaly

Hongfen Zhu

Pargam Vashishtha

Ahmed Saad Rashed

Hongzhi Shen

Parisa Kaviani

Ahmet İhsan Turan

Hossein Lotfi

Patrycja Kleczkowska

Aidin Bordbar-Khiabani

Huajin Li

Paula Pinto

Alain Manuel Chaple Gil

Huayue Chen

Paulius Skačkauskas

Alan Gasiński

Hui Lu

Paulo Cezar Bastianello Campagnol

Albena Doicheva

Huseyin Cetin

Pavel Kic

Alberto Gallegos

Hyeong-Geun Kim

Pavlo Maruschak

Alejandro Cano-Villagrasa

Hyoungchul Shin

Paweł Ciężkowski

Aleksandr Bobrovskikh

Ibrahim Mohamed

Paweł Rydzewski

Aleksandra Figurek

Ibrahim Mosly

Pedro Valdivia-Moral

Aleksandra Jovanović

Ibtissam Bakkouri

Peng Chen

Aleksandra Rybak

Igor Schepetkin

Pengle Cheng

Alessandro Poggi

Ilias Lazos

Philippe Colomban

Alessio Castagnoli

Imen Barraj

Pier Nicola Sergi

Alexandre Pimenta

Imran Ali

Ping Zhu

Alexey Andreychev

Imtiaz Ahmad

Piotr Legutko

Alexey Beskopylny

Ioannis A. Giantsis

Piotr Lichota

Alexis Murillo Carrasco

Ioannis Vardiambasis

Poya Sohrabi

Alfredo Teixeira

Irina Georgescu

Pradeep Kumar Yadav

Ali Abd El-Aty

Isaac Adejumo

Prashant Singh

Ali Alshebami

Isabel Legaz

Prithviraj Nandigrami

Ali Ercetin

Isabel Maldonado

Przemysław Podulka

Ali Kandil

Isabel Marques

Qiang Peng

Alireza Shoari

Itamar Luís Gonçalves

Qiang Yao

Alok Tiwari

Ivan Laktionov

Qiaochu Li

Aman Muhammad

Ivan Šoša

Qichang An

Amgad Fahmy

Ivan V. Semenyuta

Qingqing Sun

Amira Mohamed Idrees

Izabela Zakrocka

Rabii El Maani

Amr Mohamed

Jae Hwan Lee

Radosław Balwierz

Amroune Salah

Jakub Ciazela

Rafat Ghanamah

Anastasia Ivanova

Jale Minibas-Poussard

Rajaram Rajamohan

Anastasios Koulaouzidis

Jamal Ayour

Rajendra Rohokale

Anatoli Popov

James A. Bunce

Raluca Isac

András Molnár

Janvier Habumugisha

Raluca Mureşan

André Luiz Missio

Jarogniew Łuszczki

Ramalingam Manikandan

André Pinto

Jasna Čanadanović Brunet

Rashad EL-Sagheer

André Rolim Baby

Jean-Louis Pinault

Rashid Dallaev

Andres Camargo-Sanchez

Jelena Petrović

Ravish Patel

Andrew Perry

Jesús Bernardo Páez-Lerma

Rehan Jamil

Andrey Kuskov

Jesus Jaquez-Muñoz

Renzo Pepe-Victoriano

Andrey Zamyatnin

Jia Wang

Ricardo Hernández-Martínez

Andrii Velychkovych

Jia Wen Li

Ricardo Luiz Fernandes Bella

Angeliki Papalou

Jia-Bin Wu

Ricardo Raimundo

Anita Sejben

Jianfeng Chen

Rina Zviel-Girshin

Anja Terzić

Jiangmin Ding

Ritthideach Yorsaeng

Anna Kamenskikh

Jiangxiong Zhu

Robinson J. Herrera-Feijoo

Anna Maria Kot

Jiangyu Zhu

Rocco Ditommaso

Antanas Laurincikas

Jianhua Ren

Rocco Vitis

Anton Tkachenko

Jianjian Zheng

Rodrigo Valenzuela

António Miguel Monteiro

Jianzhao Qi

Roman Dmytryshyn

António Portelada

Jiazhen Zhang

Roman Parovik

Antonios Christou

Jifu Li

Ronit Sionov

Antreas Kantaros

Jingcai Zhang

Ruben Rodríguez Elizalde

Arash Kardani

Joanna Kosałka-Węgiel

Ružica R. Nikolić

Arash Shams Taleghani

João Carlos Caetano Simões

Sadegh Ghaderi

Armand Faganel

Jonathan Soldera

Salih Özer

Artem Perepelitsyn

Jongbeom Lim

Saliha Karadayi-Usta

Ashraf Ali

Joon Hyuk Choi

Salvatore Falanga Bolognesi

Asif Ali Haider

Jorge L. Mejía-Méndez

Salvatore Simone

Atila Kumbasaroglu

José Ascención Martínez Álvarez

Sandeep Kumar Chamoli

Aurel Burciu

José Antonio Suarez-Navarro

Sandra Pascual-García

Aynur Aliyeva

José Carlos Vázquez-Parra

Sanjin Kovacevic

Ayushman Ramola

Jose Lavres Junior

Santiago Juan-Navarro

Azizollah Khormali

José Leija-Martínez

Santosh Reddy Addula

Baishu Guo

José Luis Aguirre-Noyola

Saravanan Ramasamy

Baoqiang Liu

José Ramiro Fernandes

Sasa Radoslav Bubanj

Bartłomiej Zieniuk

José Rodrigues

Saurabh Agarwal

Bartosz Kruszewski

Josef Yayan

Sayed Saber

Beata Dedicova

Juan Gabriel Avina-Cervantes

Sebastian Schnaubelt

Behnam Mobaraki

Juan Sebastián Fernández-Prados

Sergei G. Gaidin

Ben Ingram

Juan Vielma-Perez

Sergii Sagin

Bernardo Tutikian

Jui-Hsiang Lee

Serife Balikci

Bhupinder Kumar

Junhe Yu

Seweryn Lipiński

Biao Luo

Jun-Sheng Zhang

Shadfar Davoodi

Bin Wang

Justin Nnaemeka Onyeukaziri

Shamsaldeen Ibrahim Saeed

Bin Yan

K. S. Anandh

Shanmugam Vignesh

Binfeng Yin

Kaibing Zhou

Shaohua Lei

Bing He

Kakarla Ramakrishna

Sheng Chang

Bingnan Guo

Kamil Henryk Nelke

Shengqun Deng

Bingzhe Zhang

Kamran Shah

Shigeru Kanemitsu

Bishal Baniya

Karina Teixeira Magalhães-Guedes

Shijun Pan

Bojan Stojanovic

Karol Chilmon

Shiquan Wang

Bojana S. Stojanovic

Karthik Kannan

Shiva Shankar Reddy

Bojana Vidovic

Kasireddy Sudarshan

Shuai Yuan

Bozena Gajdzik

Katarzyna Mądra-Gackowska

Shun Yao

Byoungwook Ahn

Kavipriya Thangavel

Shuo Liu

Caio Santos Bonilha

Keith Watts

Siham Bakkouri

Carlos Cerdán Santacruz

Kelcie Slaton

Silviu Beciu

Carlos Marcuello Anglés

Kesavan Nair

Simone Galano

Carolin Hannusch

Ketan M. Ranch

Simone Treccarichi

Catalin Bulai

Khrystyna Lipianina-Honcharenko

Sina Sarfarazi

Cátia Sousa

Khursheed Ahmad

Sinan Chen

Changning Liu

Kinga Korniejenko

Sing-Chung Li

Chanin Khomlaem

Kiwon Lee

Sivakumar Jeyarajan

Chao Fu

Konrad Szychowski

Slađana Popović

Chao Zheng

Konstantin Alexandrovich Rybakov

Slavica Miladinovic

Chen Kim Lim

Konstantinos Arsenopoulos

Slobodanka Galovic

Cheng Fang

Koulla Parpa

Sofoklis Stavros

Cheng Li

Kun Yang

Somya Agrawal

Chengling Lu

Kuo-Chien Liao

Song Yu

Chenkang Liu

Lambert Zixin Li

Sotomi Ishihara

Chigozie Andy Ngwaba

László Orlóci

Stanisław Pietrzyk

Chih-Wei Zeng

Laura Diaconu Maxim

Stefanos Kourtis

Chin-Feng Lin

Laxman Subedi

Stepan Dzhimak

Ching-Ta Lu

Leilei Wei

Sudarshan Singh

Chunxiao Li

Leonidas Trakolis

Suhan Zhang

Corina Aurelia Zugravu

Liang Zheng

Süleyman Çınar Çağan

Costel Plescan

Lijana Maskeliūnaitė

Swati Dahariya

Cristian Ciobanescu

Liliya Demidova

Syed Asad Ali Zaidi

Cristina Dumitru

Lorena Del Carmen Espina Romero

Szymon Suwała

Dajun Liu

Lorentz Jäntschi

Tae Young Ko

Dan Valeriu Voinea

Luca Giacomelli

Tao Ni

Daniel Badulescu

Luciana Rotaru

Tarek Berghout

Daniel Miron Brie

Luis Miguel Pires

Tatiana Fedotcheva

Daniel Piotr Potaczek

Luis O. Viteri Jumbo

Tatiana V. Vygodina

Daniel Sanin-Villa

Lvyang Ye

Tetsuya Tanioka

Danijela Smiljanic

Maconi Teixeira

Theoharis Babanatsas

David Michel De Oliveira

Madina Isametova

Thomas Roule

Daxin Dong

Magdalena Pietrzak

Tiago Lima De Albuquerque

Dejan Ćirin

Mahendra Kumar Samal

Tiziana Maria Sirangelo

Dejan Vasovic

Mahmoud Owais

Tomáš Toporcer

Deju Zhang

Maja Hitl

Tomasz Koczorowski

Denis Stanescu

Maksim Iavich

Tomyslav Sledevič

Derya Arslan

Małgorzata Rataj

Tudor Sorin Pop

Di Tian

Manal Fawzy

Tuğba Kuru Çolak

Dignesh Khunt

Mansoor-Ali Vaali-Mohammed

Tuo Zeng

Dikshat Gupta

Manuel De La Sen

Tzu-Hurng Cheng

Dimitrios Doukas

Manuel Saba

Vahdettin Demir

Dimitrios Fanourakis

Manuele Cesare

Valdivino Alexandre De Oliveira Júnior

Dina Khoudaer

Marcelo Kaminski Lenzi

Vanessa Bergamin Boralli

Dmitriy Tverdyi

Marcia Bastos Convento

Vasile Razvan Filimon

Dmitry Erokhin

Márcio Vargas-Ramella

Vasileios Greveniotis

Domenico Rosa

Marco Cavaco

Vasily Lubashevskiy

Dominika Gajdosikova

Marco Eigenfeld

Vasudeva Reddy Netala

Dominika Guzek

Marco Fogante

Vesselin Gueorguiev

Dong Wook Shin

Marco Vincenzo Valente

Vicente Borja Jaimes

Dong Zhao

Marcos Antonio Japiassu Resende Montes

Vicente González-Prida

Donghyun Lee

Marcus Goncalves

Victor Abiola Adepoju

Dongwang Wu

Marek Wozniak

Vidyasrilekha Sanapalli

Dongzhao Jin

María Guadalupe Frías-De-León

Vikas Mehta

Douglas Watts

Maria Pia Di Palo

Vilmar Steffen

Dragana Filipovic

Marian Palcut

Vincenzo Mirco La Fazia

Duc Hung Pham

Marianna Olivadese

Vincezo Cuteri

Dulani Meedeniya

Marielena Saivish

Virginia-Maria Rădulescu

Dumitru Toader

Marija R. Popović-Nikolić

Vlad Stoian

Dursun Zafer Seker

Marina Konuhova

Walaa Salah

Eber Quintana-Obregón

Marino Paroli

Walter R. Schumm

Eduarda Vieira

Marios Christodoulou

Wang Chun Kwok

Eduardo Alvarez-Duarte

Mariusz Bialecki

Weber Da Silva Robazza

Eduardo Fernandes

Marko Bašković

Wei Ling

Edwin M. Pino-Vargas

Marko Slavković

Wei-Biao Liao

Efraín Villamor Herrero

Massimo Pacella

Weichen Zhan

Ehab Ali

Matteo Angelo Fabris

Weiwei Han

Ehab AlShamaileh

Matteo Conti

Welson Bassi

Ehsan Hosseini

Matteo Pellegrini

Wen Chen

Ekaterina Lesovaya

Maurizio Sabbatini

Wiktor Stopyra

Elcio Ferreira Dos Santos

Maxim Polyakov

Wilhelm Londono

Elena Tchetina

Mazen Al-Kheetan

Wilhelm Mistiaen

Elina Margarida Ribeiro Marinho

Mehmet Das

William Aperador

Elnaz Amirahmadi

Mehmet Palanci

Wojciech Niemczyk

Eloy Conde

Melissa Anne Beryl Vogt

Xiang Lei

Elvira Rozhina

Menaouar Berrehil El Kattel

Xiang Zhang

Emad A. Az-Zo'bi

Meng Zhang

Xiangchen Meng

Emmanouil Georgios C. Tzanakakis

Michael Halim

Xiao Jian Tan

En Lu

Michal Stosiak

Xiaohai Zheng

Enrique Cervantes Pérez

Michał Zarobkiewicz

Xiaokang Ma

Eqram Rahman

Michele Paolantonio

Xiaoxi Hu

Erand Llanaj

Mika Merviö

Xin Li

Eungi Kim

Mikhail Akimov

Xin Yang

Evangelos Tsiaras

Mikhail Arbatsky

Xin Zhang (Henan Institute of Science and Technology)

Fabio Massimo Oddi

Mikhail Statkus

Xin Zhang (Tianjin Normal University)

Fahad Al Basir

Milan Lal

Xinfa Tang

Faïçal Brini

Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic

Xinxin Zhao

Fanglei Zhong

Miłosz Huber

Xinyan Peng

Faseeulla Mohammad

Ming Wu

Xu Li

Fayyaz Qureshi

Minh Tam Schlosky

Yang Shen

Fazlurrahman Khan

Mira Chitt

Yanlin Shi

Federico Minelli

Mirela Jimborean

Yanlong Ji

Fei Han

Mirela Lučan Čolić

Yasir Rasool

Fei Yu

Miriam González-Afonso

Yaxsier De Armas

Fekete Mónika

Mirjana Ocokoljić

Yew Hoong Wong

Fengwei Wang

Miroslava Rakocevic

Yile Chen

Fernando França Cunha

Mohamed A. Hassan

Yinbo Gan

Fernando Marson

Mohamed Ibrahem Elhawy

Yinghao Shan

Fernando Monroy

Mohamed-Amine Babay

Yixin He

Filipe Pereira

Mohammad Aldossary

Yong Zhang

Flaviu Mihai Frigură-Iliasa

Mohammad Ali Arjomand

Yonggang Kim

Florian Pape

Mohammad Mofatteh

Yoshiro Horai

Florin Oancea

Mohammad Nurul Matin

Younho Han

Francesco Cali

Mohammad Younis Hajeer

Youqiang Zhang

Francesco Gagliardi

Mohammed Abdulrasak

Yuan Chen

Francisco Delgado

Mohammed Alnaim

Yuanjie Deng

Francisco E. M. Silveira

Mohammed M. Gomaa

Yuchen Wang

Francisco Guillen-Grima

Mohd Ismail Ibrahim

Yue Cheng

Francisco Rafael Trejo-Macotela

Mohd Usman Mohd Junaidi

Yue Ma

Fredrick N. Eze

Moisés Tolentino Bento Da Silva

Yue Tan

Fredy Hoyos Velasco

Monika Michalska

Yufei Gao

Fuhaid Alshammari

Mostafa Shooshtari

Yunchao Tang

Gabriel Marín Díaz

Mothana Mustafa Gasaymeh

Yuniel Méndez-Martínez

Gabriel Sperandio Milan

Mubarak A. Alanazi

Yuri Tokarev

Gabriela Ignat

Mudasir Younis

Yurii Syromyatnikov

Gamal Ebrahim

Muhammad A. Butt

Yury V. Ilyushin

Gang Hui

Muhammad Jamil

Yuyan Pan

Gaydaa Al-Zohbi

Muhammad Munir

Zbigniew Raszewski

George Karabatsos

Muhammad Waseem

Zbigniew Waśkiewicz

Gerardo Fuentes-Vilugrón

Muntean Calin

Zeashan Khan

Gerasimos Pagiatakis

Murat Demiral

Zeesham Abbas

Giovani Telli

Mussa Makran

Zhao Li

Gleb Zaitsev

Mustafa Bora

Zhen Zhang

Golap Kalita

Mustafa Zeybek

Zheng Lu

Gonzalo Emiliano Aranda-Abreu

Muzaffar Iqbal

Zheng Yuan

Goran Marinkovic

Nafiu Olanrewaju Ogunsola

Zhengchang Wu

Guangliang Xing

Nagendra Verma

Zhenhua Zhang

Guanjun Yang

Nam Deuk Kim

Zhenyu Liu

Guanzhou Ji

Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian

Zhiguo Meng

Guilherme Welter Wendt

Natalia Kurhaluk

Zhouli Liu

Guillermo Berumen-Varela

Natalija Čutović

Zhuofu Liu

Guna Sekhar Sajja

Natesan Thirumalaivasan

Zied Ben Hazem

Guojie Xie

Nebojša Jurišević

Zihan Qu

Hajer Ben Ammar

Nevien Elhawat

Zongwu Chen

Hamid Ghazi Sulimany

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh

Zorica Mojović

Hamid Osman

Nicolás Amigo

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