Acknowledgment of the Reviewers of Drones in 2023
31 January 2024
In recognizing the exceptional efforts of our reviewers in 2023, we express our sincere gratitude for upholding the high standards of Drones. Their commitment ensured the rigorous peer review that is integral to quality academic publishing.
In 2023, Drones received 2837 review reports, from 1832 reviewers. This past year, we worked with reviewers from 77 countries and regions, reflecting the diversity in our collaboration with research communities. Their dedication shapes scholarly discourse and advances global research. The editorial team expresses gratitude for the vital role played by each reviewer in the Drones family throughout 2023, and we look forward to their continued support in 2024.
The following are the reviewers who have consented to show their names:
| Abdalrahman Qubaa | László Szabó |
| Abdulkader Joukhadar | Lazaros Grammatikopoulos |
| Abdul-Wahid Saif | Lehlogonolo Ledwaba |
| Abner Jr. Asignacion | Lei Wu |
| Abraham Mejia-Aguilar | Leonardo Conti |
| Adam Bondyra | Lev Kuzmin |
| Adeb Salh | Liangliang Xiao |
| Adolfo Josué Rodríguez Rodríguez | Lin Zhang |
| Adriaan De Man | Lioua Kolsi |
| Afshin Banazadeh | Longlong Li |
| Ahmad Fakharian | Loredana Crenganis |
| Ahmed Aboelezz | K. Lova Raju |
| Ahmed Gomaa | Luigi Di Palma |
| Ahmed Refaat Ragab | Luis Javier Sánchez Aparicio |
| Ahmet Çağdaş Seçkin | Luis Luis Pérez |
| Alan Lolaev | Luis Miguel García-Cuevas |
| Albandari Alsumayt | Luiza de Macedo Mourelle |
| Albert Garcia Benadí | Lukai Song |
| Alberto Sassu | Mustafa Tolga Esetlili |
| Alessandra Vitanza | Maciej Henzel |
| Alessandro Testa | Maggi Kelly |
| Alexander Shelekhov | Mahendra Shukla |
| Alexandre Almeida Del Savio | Mai The Vu |
| Alexandre Brandão | Mallikarjuna Gowda C. P. |
| Alexandre Ramos | Malvin Nkomo |
| Alexandros Spournias | Manikandan Murugaiah |
| Alexandru Tudosie | Manjit Kaur |
| Alexey Kutyrev | Marc Havermann |
| Alexey Tikhonov | Marcelo Barbosa Júnior |
| Alfonso López Ruiz | Marcin Kicinski |
| Ali Aydda | Marcio Basilio |
| Ali Sadiq | Marco La Salandra |
| Amélia Caldeira | Maria Lapina |
| Americo Correia | Maria Rizzi |
| Amir A. Ghavifekr | Marston Héracles Domingues Franceschini |
| Amir Benzaoui | Martín Guillermo Frixione |
| Ana Regina Cuperschmid | Martin Hering-Bertram |
| Anastasios Dimou | Martin Štroner |
| Andrea Peirano | Masoud Mohammadi |
| Andreas Strohmayer | Massimo Satler |
| Andrew Oakey | Matteo Cutugno |
| Andriy Holovatyy | Max Mauro Santos |
| Andrzej Łukaszewicz | Maysam Abbod |
| Andrzej Majka | Maziar Yazdani |
| Angelo Messina | Md Nasim Reza |
| Anita Prapotnik Brdnik | Melih Yildiz |
| Anna Sciomachen | Melvyn Tyloo |
| Antonino Fotia | Michael Nones |
| Antonio Comi | Michał Aibin |
| Antonio Vitale | Michał Morawski |
| Apostolos Papakonstantinou | Michela Tramonti |
| Arash Heidari | Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez García |
| Arianna Pesci | Mikhail V. Vavulin |
| Arif Ullah | Milan Džunda |
| Arshad Jamal | Milan Vrdoljak |
| Artur Gafurov | Mingkai Wang |
| Artur Kierzkowski | Mingrong Ren |
| Ashutosh Bhardwaj | Mithra Venkatesan |
| Asif Ali Laghari | Mjahed Mostafa |
| Asma Abu-Samah | Mo ElSayed |
| Atoany Fierro | Mohamad Awad |
| Aurelio Bermúdez | Mohammad Meraj Mirza |
| Ayad Q. Al-Dujaili | Mohammed H. Alsharif |
| Azarakhsh Keipour | Monia Hamdi |
| Barbara Messina | Mosab Alrashed |
| Barjeece Bashir | Mostafa Abotaleb |
| Bartłomiej Ambrożkiewicz | Muhammad Awais |
| Bartosz Mitka | Muhammad Tanveer |
| Beata Cieniawska | Muhammad Usman |
| Benjamyn Scott | Muhammed Basheer Jasser |
| Benjmain Fraser | Muhammed Enes Atik |
| Bharat S. Chaudhari | Muhammet Ali Karabulut |
| Bin Sun | Muntazir Hussain |
| Boguslaw Dolega | Nadir Kapetanovic |
| Bongjae Kim | Naima Kaabouch |
| Boris Boiarskii | Najett Neji |
| Boris Chubarenko | Nam Dinh |
| Boyu Kuang | Natalia Ivanovna Zakharova |
| Brijesh Patel | Nathan Rowley |
| Bulat Usmanov | Navneet Agrawal |
| Caleb Rascon | Neng Ye |
| Cedric Liauzun | Niki Maleki |
| Cezary Szczepański | Nikola Zogović |
| Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache | Nizar Polat |
| Chang Wang | Norbert Scherer-Negenborn |
| Charalampos N. Pitas | Obaid Alshammari |
| Cheolheui Han | Okto Dinaryanto |
| Chinmaya Kumar Nayak | Olga Morozova |
| Chinnamuthu Annadurai | Olga Peskova |
| Chris Cavalaris | Oluibukun Ajayi |
| Christian Salvadeo | Olympia Roeva |
| Christoph Steup | Or D. Dantsker |
| Chuanyun Wang | Pablo Torres-Rodas |
| Chun-Kai Chen | Pampa Sadhukhan |
| Chunlei Liu | Paolo Candeloro |
| Chun-Liang Lin | Paolo Rossi |
| Chuyang Yang | Paolo Scarabaggio |
| Costas Chaikalis | Pavel Lysenko |
| Cristian-Emil Moldoveanu | Pavel Mezei |
| Dalibor Procházka | Pavol Kajánek |
| Daniel Homocianu | Pawel Rzucidlo |
| Daniel Ramos | Pedro Orgeira-Crespo |
| Danil Ivanov | Pedro Juan Roig |
| Dariusz Horla | Peiwen Zhang |
| Davide Marsano | Pere Vila |
| Dayi Zhang | Peter Barcik |
| Daynier Rolando Delgado Sobrino | Peter Leskovsky |
| Dean Sumic | Peter Ross McAree |
| Dessislava Ganeva | Peter Tapak |
| Deyun Zhong | Philip Moore |
| Deyvis Cano | Piotr Wróblewski |
| Dimitrios Bechtsis | Prabhu Selvaraj |
| Dimitrios Nalmpantis | Prabuddh Mishra |
| Dinh-Dung Nguyen | Qiang Zhao |
| Dionisio Rodríguez-Esparragón | Qingquan Huang |
| Dipan Deb | Qingsong Fan |
| Dirk Hölscher | Quoc Viet Luong |
| Divya Sanghi | Rabie Ramadan |
| Dmitriy Kritskiy | Radoslava Bekova |
| Dmitriy Shutin | Rafael Casado |
| Domenica Costantino | Rafal Tarko |
| Donghyeok An | Raffaella De Marco |
| Dorota Temple | Raihan Maskuriy |
| Do-Yup Kim | Rajesh Madathil |
| Đuro Barković | Rajkumar Rathore |
| Eben Broadbent | Raniero Beber |
| Edoardo Currà | Rastislav Róka |
| Eduardo Ribeiro | Ratna Kishore Velamati |
| Ehsan Esmaeilzadeh | Rawaa Qasha |
| Ekaterina Kopets | Raymond Hintz |
| Elbaz Abouelmagd | Răzvan Şolea |
| Elgar Barboza | Redmond Ramin Shamshiri |
| Elmer A. G. Peñaloza | Ricardo Peón-Escalante |
| Emanuele Barca | Rifaat Abdalla |
| Emiliano Gallaga | Robert Ljubičić |
| Emilio J. Mascort-Albea | Róbert Szabolcsi |
| Emma Woolliams | Rocco Citroni |
| Emmanouel Michailidis | Rodrigo Santos |
| Emre Kiyak | Roland Bouffanais |
| Endrowednes Kuantama | Roland Linck |
| Enkhsaikhan Boldsaikhan | Ross Gore |
| Enrico Boni | Rui Huang |
| Enrico Tronci | Russell Brinkworth |
| Eric Villeneuve | Ryan Paul |
| Evangelia Filiopoulou | Ryszard Hołownicki |
| F. Antonio Medrano | Sadegh Fadaei |
| Fabien Mieyeville | Sahil Pottoo |
| Fabio Leccese | Sajjad Ghauri |
| Faez M. Hassan | Salvador Peña-Haro |
| Fares Abu-Abed | Salvatore Esposito |
| Farooq Saeed | Salvatore Ponte |
| Fatih Akkoyun | Sanat Kumar Karmacharya |
| Fenggang Sun | Sang Ik Han |
| Fernando Gandia-Aguera | Sante Francesco Rende |
| Fidencio Tapia | Santiago Puma-Araujo |
| Francesca Picchio | Sumayah Al-Rabiaah |
| Francesco Gherardini | Sarmad Ibrahim |
| Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego | Satoshi Yamamoto |
| Francisco R. Castillo-Soria | Saurabh Patel |
| Fuqiang Lu | Sayani Sarkar |
| Gabriel Ferraz | Sayantan Sarkar |
| Gabriela Calvario Sanchez | Selahattin Kosunalp |
| Gabriela Lima | Senlin Guan |
| Gabriele Buttafuoco | Seong-Hoon Kim |
| George Adam | Sergei Strijhak |
| George Zaimes | Sergej Baričević |
| German Barragan | Sergey Stankevich |
| Ghulam Mustafa | Shan-Jen Cheng |
| Giancarlo Rufino | Shashi Mesapam |
| Gilberto López Castens | Sheikh Ziauddin |
| Gino Lim | Shengke Wang |
| Giovanni Garraffa | Sherief Hashima |
| Gisela Pujol | Shihyuan Yeh |
| Giuseppe Del Core | Shi-Wei Lo |
| Grigor Mihaylov | Shuang Fu |
| Guilherme Lucas | Shuangxi Liu |
| Guillermo Valencia-Palomo | Shuhang Zhang |
| Gulay Unal | Shuja Ansari |
| Hadar Ben-Gida | Sibila Genchi |
| Haider Al-kanan | Sibo Li |
| Haigang Sui | Silvia Krug |
| Haitham Abu Ghazaleh | Simeon Ajakwe |
| Hakilo Sabit | Simon Tomazic |
| Hamidreza Heidari | Simona Violino |
| Hang Hu | Sirish Kumar Pagoti |
| Hang Zhu | Slavomir Labant |
| Haval Sadeeq | Sobhan Esmaeili |
| Hayder Almosa | Sonisa Sharma |
| He Huang | Sparsh Sharma |
| Helder Viana | Stanislav Marchevský |
| Herman Fesenko | Stefan Bodi |
| Hiroyuki Tomiyama | Stefan Särdqvist |
| Horacio Paggi | Stefano Marino |
| Hoseong Kim | Stefano Primatesta |
| Husam A. Foudeh | Stefano Sfarra |
| Ignas Daugėla | Stefano Silvestrini |
| Igor Golyak | Sudesh Rani |
| Ioana-Manuela Marcu | Sufyan Ali Memon |
| Ioannis Faraslis | Sun Myung Won |
| Iosif Vorovencii | Susumu Ishihara |
| Ireneusz Wyczałek | Sutthiphong Srigrarom |
| Isaac Henderson | Sven Gotovac |
| Isabel S. Jesus | Swetava Ganguli |
| Isidora Đurić | Tamer Saraçyakupoğlu |
| Ismail Elkhrachy | Tao Hong |
| Ivan Mezei | Tayfun Tanbay |
| Ivan Petrovic | Tegg Sung |
| Ivan Russo | Tej Bahadur Shahi |
| Jacqueline Huynh | Thirumurugan Shanmugam |
| Jafar Roshanian | Triet Nguyen-Van |
| Jaime Ortegon Aguilar | Tri-Hai Nguyen |
| Jaime Aviles | Ümit Çiǧdem Turhal |
| Jaime González-Sierra | Uzair Khan |
| James Whidborne | Vadim Kramar |
| Jamie Wubben | Vahid Mousavi |
| Jamshed Iqbal | Valentyn Sobchuk |
| Ján Bačík | Van Thanh Tien Nguyen |
| Jan Kelner | Vasileios Psiroukis |
| Janusz Kluczynski | Victor Monzon Baeza |
| Javad Ghofrani | Vijayanandh Raja |
| Jaya Shradha Fowdur | Viktor Nikolaidis |
| Jean Louis Fendji Kedieng Ebongue | Vincent Adeyemi |
| Jean Paul Douzals | Vinoth Kumaravelu |
| Jerzy Bakunowicz | Vladimir Serbezov |
| Jerzy Chojnacki | Vladimir Sukhov |
| Jesus Fernandez Hernandez | Vyacheslav Kharchenko |
| Jesus Garcia | Wanli Wen |
| Jiahang Liu | Wei Feng |
| Jialei Song | Weiwei Jiang |
| Jianping Zhang | Weizhong Zhang |
| Jinbin Fu | Wen-Hsi Cheng |
| Jinchao Chen | Wilfried Yves Hamilton Adoni |
| Jing Wang (Canada) | William J. Kirkwood |
| Jing Wang (China) | Witold Bużantowicz |
| Jingcao Cai | Witold Klimczyk |
| Jinjun Rao | Wojciech Giernacki |
| Jiong Shi | Wolfgang Kresse |
| Jiraphon Srisertpol | Woonghee Lee |
| Jisung Kim | Xiangjun Zou |
| Jiwei Tian | Xiangxiong Kong |
| Jiyu Li | Xiangyu Li |
| Jiyul Chang | Xiaofei Du |
| João M. L. P. Caldeira | xiaogang yang |
| Joaquim Guerreiro Marques | Xiaohui Lei |
| John Murray | Xiaoliang Wang |
| Joongjin Kook | Xiaomeng Shi |
| Jorge Luis Zambrano-Martinez | Xiaomin Wei |
| Jorge Mamede | Xiaopeng Yuan |
| José Cecílio | Xiuyu Liu |
| Jose Eduardo Fuentes Delgado | Yannick Verbelen |
| Jose Machorro-Lopez | Yanpeng Hu |
| José Paulo Lousado | Yaoxin Zheng |
| Juan De Dios Sanchez-Lopez | Yara Khaluf |
| Junyan Han | Yaseen Al-Mulla |
| Jupeng Ding | Yew Chai Paw |
| Justyna Zywiolek | Yi Han |
| Santhosh Krishnan Venkata | Ying Ju |
| Kai Li | Yisak Debele |
| Kalyan Kumar Jena | Yuan Sun |
| Kang Liu (China) | Yuchi Ma |
| Kang Liu (UK) | Yüksel Eraslan |
| Karolina Krajček Nikolić | Yunchao Tang |
| Kashish Dhal | Yundong Li |
| Katarzyna Dohn | Yung-Lan Yeh |
| Kathleen Keogh | Yunjie Yang |
| Keivan Kabiri | Yury Tiumentsev |
| Kevin Nickels | Yuxing Li |
| Khadak Singh Bhandari | Zaheer Ahmed Dayo |
| Kirill Krinkin | Zandra Betzabe Rivera Chavez |
| Klemen Kozmus Trajkovski | Zbigniew Gomolka |
| Konrad Bärfuss | Zeashan Khan |
| Konstantinos Kantelis | Zhe Shen |
| Konstantinos Konstantoudakis | Zhen Liu |
| Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos | Zhengyi Wang |
| Kuo Chien Liao | Zhi Lin |
| Kyaw Thu Moe | Zhou Yuqing |
| KyungHi Chang | Zhouxuan Xiao |
| Lahsen Cherif Iyad | Zvonko Radosavljevic |
| Lambert Spaanenburg | |