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Announcements
6 February 2026
Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Drones in 2025
The editorial office of Drones 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, Drones received 5710 review reports from contributors across 71 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 Drones.
| Abdulkarem Alamwgani | Hanzhou Wu | Omar S. Hussein |
| Abhishek Gupta | Hao Wu | Omar Salah |
| Abhishek Phadke | Haoyang Zhang | Orly Enrique Apolo-Apolo |
| Abhishek Rawat | Haruna Adoga | Ossama Mokhiamar |
| Adam Heyduk | Hasan Bilgehan Makineci | Osslan Osiris Vergara Villegas |
| Adamantia Stamou | He Zhu | Pabricio Lopes |
| Ademayowa Afiz Ishola | Hector Obrien Kaschel | Pabrício Marcos Oliveira Lopes |
| Adeyemi Adegoke Adeleke | Hee Seon Jang | Pan Jiacai |
| Adham Ahmed Awad Elsayed Elmenshawy | Helene Piet-Lahanier | Paolo Pagliuca |
| Adrian Gligor | Hélio Sousa Mendonça | Paulo Jorge Oliveira |
| Adrian Molnar-Irimie | Heung-Shik Lee | Paulo M. S. T. de Castro |
| Adriano Canolla | Hongbo He | Pavel Lafata |
| Ahana Roy Choudhury | Hongqiang Sun | Pavel Lysenko |
| Ahmet Cagdas Seckin | Hossein Yarahmadi | Pavle Pitka |
| Alberto Carelli | Houssem Jerbi | Pavlo Radiuk |
| Alberto Lordsleem | Hristos T. Anastassiu | Paweł Penar |
| Alejandro Flores Rangel | Huadong Li | Pawel Rzucidlo |
| Aleksey Antipov | Huan Shen | Pawel Straczynski |
| Alessandro Rosa Lopes Zachi | Hugo Yañez-Badillo | Peiying Zhang |
| Alexander J. Werth | Hui Wang | Penelope Ioannidou |
| Alexander M. Popov | Huifeng Zheng | Pengcheng Cao |
| Alexandre Santos Brandão | Ibrahim Elshafiey | Pengle Cheng |
| Alexandros Spournias | Ihnsik Weon | Peter Povlsen |
| Alexandros Vouros | Iñaki Garmendia | Philip Reeder |
| Alfonso Micucci | In-Sung Lee | Philip Thomas Moore |
| Ali Ağçal | Ion-Cornel Mituletu | Pietro Bonfanti |
| Ali Gohar | Irena Marie Hlaváčová | Pinar Demircioglu |
| Ali Nourollah | Ireneusz Jacek Wyczałek | Piotr Korbel |
| Ali Taheri | Irving D. Hernández | Piotr Lipinski |
| Alison de Oliveira Moraes | Iryna Borshchova | Plamen Zlatkov Zahariev |
| Alper Celik | Iryna Soltys | Prahit Dubey |
| Altyeb Ali Abaker Omer | Ismail Bogrekci | Przemysław Klapa |
| Aman Muhammad | Israel Soto | Qi Yuan |
| Amine Benmoussa | Ivan Plaščak | Qiang Lu |
| Amir Emir Seyyedabbasi | Ivana Racetin | Qingqing Wang |
| Andrada-Livia Cirneanu | Ivana Vasiljević | Qingyu Hou |
| André Luiz Cunha | Ivica Stančerić | Qiong Wu |
| Andrea Mancuso | Iwona Grobelna | Qizhang Luo |
| Andrea Pagliai | Jaeone Lee | Quanwei Gao |
| Andreas Georgopoulos | Jaime González-Sierra | Quoc Viet Luong |
| Andrei Kartoziia | Jakub Suchý | Radosław Fellner |
| Andrej Pal | Jan Chudzikiewicz | Rafael E. Vásquez |
| Andrey Ronzhin | Ján Dižo | Rafael Sanchez Crespo |
| Andrzej Łukaszewicz | Jan M. Kelner | Rafael Socas |
| Aniello Daniele Marano | Janis Semenjako | Raffaella De Marco |
| Anita Prapotnik Brdnik | János Botzheim | Rahul Raman |
| Anna Ślesicka | Janusz Piechna | Raimondo Giuliani |
| Anni Zhao | Jaroslaw Bernacki | Rajkumar Singh Rathore |
| Anon Namin | Jasmine Santinelli | Ram Mohan Narayanan |
| Anton Antonov | Javed K. Sayyad | Ramesh Kumar Sahni |
| Antonio Carlos Daud Filho | Javier Gomez-Avila | Ramón Alcarria |
| Antonio Esposito | Javier Marcello | Ramón Trucíos-Caciano |
| António Lopes | Javier Sánchez-Soriano | Randa Almadhoun |
| António Mário Almeida | Jehan Nascimento | Ratko Obradovic |
| Antonio Pio Sberna | Jessica S. Ortiz | Raúl Dalí Cruz-Morales |
| Antonio Tupek | Jiace Yuan | Ravi Raj |
| Antonio Valente | Jiahui Li | Raymond John Hintz |
| Archit Krrishna Kamath | Jian Gu | Raza Hasan |
| Arianna Pesci | Jianfeng Chen | Răzvan Şolea |
| Aristeidis Georgakis | Jianyong Zhang | Reinis Cimurs |
| Arkadeep Mitra | Jiaxing Xie | Renan Sanches Geronel |
| Artur Kierzkowski | Jie Tian | Renato Herrig Furlanetto |
| Asifa Yesmin | Jie Zhang | Rey Yie Fong |
| Athanasios K. Gkesoulis | Jing Yan | Ri Na |
| Avdhoot Datar | Jingcao Cai | Riaan Stopforth |
| Azita Laily Yusof | Jingcheng Fu | Ricardo Fabricio Escobar-Jiménez |
| Balduino César Mateus | Jinjun Rao | Richard Becker |
| Basem M. Elhalawany | Jiyu Sun | Richard L. Wood |
| Basil Mohammed Al-Hadithi | Jochen Wild | Ridha Guebsi |
| Ben Bartlett | Jongkwan Choi | Rigoberto Martinez Clark |
| Bernard Stanisław Twaróg | Jorge A. Ruiz-Vanoye | Rinat Sadekov |
| Bhisham Sharma | Jorge Herrera-Tapia | Robert Beach |
| Bhoomin B. Chauhan | Jorge Mamede | Robert Ryszard Chodorek |
| Bilal A. Mubdir | José Aníbal Arias-Aguilar | Rohit Gupta |
| Blagovest Belev | José Antonio González-Prieto | Rok Kamnik |
| Bo Hou | José Daniel Hoyos | Roland Linck |
| Bo Zhao | Jose E. Naranjo | Romário Oliveira De Santana |
| Boban Sazdić-Jotić | José F. Marín | Rosana Rego |
| Bogdan Prodanov | José Luis Outón | Rui Araújo |
| Boguslaw Szlachetko | José M. Núñez-Ortuño | Rui Ming |
| Bohus Leitner | José Marinho | Ruitao Lu |
| Boris Ginzburg | José Ricardo Lima Pinto | Ruobin Wang |
| Borys Chetverikov | József Vásárhelyi | Saeideh Pahlavan |
| Bowen Xu | Juan Francisco Flores-Resendiz | Sagit Valeev |
| Bożena Woźna-Szcześniak | Juan Pedro Cortés-Pérez | Said Bouchkaren |
| Branimir Farkaš | Juan Valente Hidalgo-Contreras | Salvador López Barajas |
| Brijesh Patel | Julian Galvez-Serna | Salvador Peña-Haro |
| Burak Buda Turhan | Jung Min Pak | Salvatore Ponte |
| Byron Oviedo | Jungmin Cho | Salvatore Rosario Bassolillo |
| Caleb Rascon | Junming Chen | Sandeep Gupta |
| Calin-Octavian Miclosina | Junshan Liu | Sandra Melo |
| Canek Portillo | Justina Hudenko | Sang Feng |
| Carlos Alexandre Pontes Pizzino | Kacoutchy Jean Ayikpa | Sang Ik Han |
| Carlos Arellano-Muro | Kalle Tammemäe | Sani Abba |
| Carlos Renan dos Santos | Karim El Moutaouakil | Sarun Duangsuwan |
| Carlos Renaudo | Karl Arne Johannessen | Saulius Rudys |
| Carlos Sotelo | Karpovich Elena | Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni |
| Carmelo Rosario Vindigni | Kartik B. Ariyur | Sebastian Kümmritz |
| Catalin Beguni | Katerina Maria Oikonomou | Sergej Baričević |
| Celso Márquez-Sánchez | Kaya Kuru | Sergey Lazarenko |
| Chae-Bong Sohn | Keith Francis Joiner | Sergii Kushch |
| Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache | Kelei Wang | Sergio A. Velastin |
| Chang Liu | Khawaja Fahad Iqbal | Sergio Cappucci |
| Changchuan Yin | Kimiko Motonaka | Sergio Castiñeira-Ibáñez |
| Chang-Sun Yoo | Kishore Naik Mude | Seyed Mohammad Hosseini |
| Chao Mou | Konrad Wojciechowski | Seyed Pendar Toufighi |
| Chao Wang | Kostis Theodoros | Shahab Edin Nodehi |
| Charalampos N. Pitas | Krzysztof Lichy | Shahriar Shirvani Moghaddam |
| Chen-Chiung Hsieh | Krzysztof Sornek | Shan Li |
| Cheng Fang | Kuangyu Zheng | Shan-Jen Cheng |
| Cheng Pan | Kun Ye | Shanzhe Zhang |
| Chengwei Zhou | Kung-Ming Chung | Shaohua Lei |
| Cheolheui Han | Kyusuk Han | Shaoping Xiao |
| Christina N. Tsaimou | Lambert Spaanenburg | Sheraz Alam Khan |
| Chun-Gu Lee | Laszlo Csirmaz | Shijun Pan |
| Chunwu Yin | Laurentiu Cristea | Shoukun Wang |
| Claudia Conte | Lavanya Addepalli | Shuangsi Xue |
| Claudio Vela | Lei Song | Shuangxi Liu |
| Constantin Volosencu | Lev Kuzmin | Shubham Rana |
| Constantinos Angelis | Li Shen | Shubo Wang |
| Costas Chaikalis | Li Sun | Shujin Qiu |
| Cristian Randieri | Liang Tong | Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe |
| Cristian Uscatu | Lifan Sun | Sohaib Bin Altaf Khattak |
| Cristian Vidan | Linchuan Tian | Sojung Kim |
| Cuauhtemoc Acosta Lua | Liqun Ma | Song Liu |
| Dacian-Paul Marian | Lishuo Zhang | Sooyoung Jang |
| Damir D. Jerković | Liviu Dinca | Sorin Buzura |
| Dan Marius Dobrea | Long Zhang | Stan Proskurov |
| Daniel Costa Ramos | Long Zhuang | Stanislav Milevskyi |
| Daniel James Winarski | Longhao Qian | Stanley Anak Suab |
| Daniel Rubenstein | Lorenzo Pellone | Stavros Kapsalis |
| Daniel Sanhueza | Loreto Pescosolido | Stefan Kuhn |
| Daniele Cirillo | Luca Cozzolino | Stefan Stavrev |
| Daniele Fattizzo | Lucian Trifina | Stefano Silvestrini |
| Dariusz Horla | Ľudovít Kovanič | Sulaymon Eshkabilov |
| Dariusz Milewski | Luigi Bibbò | Sung-Wook Park |
| David A. Haessig | Luis Luis Pérez | Suwin Sleesongsom |
| David Harries | Luís M. L. Oliveira | Suxia Zhang |
| David R. Green | Luis Miguel Pires | Syed Md. Galib |
| David Safadinho | Lukai Song | Sylwia Szybowska |
| Dawei Sun | Łukasz Marchel | Tadeo Espinoza-Fraire |
| Dejan Drajic | Lung-Jieh Yang | Tairan Liu |
| Denis E. C. Vargas | Luping Xiang | Taketoshi Iyota |
| Di Wu | Mabel Vazquez | Tao Li |
| Dimitar Ginchev | Maciej Ciężkowski | Tao Xu |
| Dimitrios Panagiotidis | Maciej Dąbski | Thadeu Brito |
| Dina Jovanović | Maciej Henzel | Thierry Villemur |
| Dipraj Debnath | Madalin Dombrovschi | Tiago Miguel Dias |
| Dmitriy Kritskiy | Magdalena Rozmus | Tiago Monteiro Condé |
| Domenico Bianchi | Mahya Ramezani | Tian Zhang |
| Donatello Fosco | Majid Roohi | Tianfang Xie |
| Dong Zhao | Malaka Miyuranga Kaluarachchi | Tianquan Liang |
| Dong Zhou | Manuel F. M. Costa | Tommaso Orusa |
| Dongxu Chen | Manuel José Ibarra-Arenado | Tomyslav Sledevic |
| Do-Yup Kim | Manuel Toscano-Moreno | Tong Gao |
| Dragan Golubović | Marek Szczepanski | Toni Ivanov |
| Dragana Oros | Margarita Išoraitė | Tymoteusz Turlej |
| Duc Tan Vu | Mariantonietta Ciurleo | Tzu-Wen Kuo |
| Ebrahim E. Elsayed | Mario Eduardo Rivero-Angeles | Vadim Kramar |
| Eduardo Augusto Werneck Ribeiro | Mario Miler | Vadym Avrutov |
| Eduardo Avendano Fernández | Marios Sekadakis | Valentyn Sobchuk |
| Eduardo P. Olaguer | Mark Brady | Van Thanh Tien Nguyen |
| Efstratios D. Kakaletsis | Maroșan Iosif Adrian | Vasileios Cheimaras |
| Eicher Low | Martin Beer | Venugopal Thandlam |
| Elias J. R. Freitas | Mateusz Olszewski | Vesna Blagojevic |
| Elizvan Juárez | Mathieu F. Bilodeau | Vicente Bayarri |
| Elvin Ugonna Eziama | Mattia Piccinini | Vicente Borja-Jaimes |
| Emad S. Hassan | Matyas Arvai | Víctor H. Andaluz |
| Emmanouel T. Michailidis | Mauro Minervino | Vijayan Sundararaj |
| Erick Adje | Mehmet Kaya | Virgilio Pérez Giménez |
| Erick Ordaz-Rivas | Meisam Mohammadi Amin | Vishnu G. Nair |
| Erwin Kristen | Mengtang Li | Vitalii Ishchenko |
| Eva Savina Malinverni | Meshari Aljohani | Vittorio Rampa |
| Evangelos Anastasiou | Mete Özbaltan | Vlad Andrei Ciubotariu |
| Fabian Andres Lara-Molina | Miao Liu | Vladimir Milić |
| Fabio Maggio | Michał Kłodawski | Vladimir Serbezov |
| Fadhila Lachekhab | Michal Schmirler | Vladimir Shakhov |
| Fan Zhao | Milad Khazraee | Waldemar Odziemczyk |
| Fangqing Tan | Milan Gavrilović | Waterloo Pereira Filho |
| Fardin Bahreini | Milos Seda | Wei Dai |
| Farid García-Lamont | Mimoun Yandouzi | Wei Sun |
| Faroq Awin | Ming-An Chung | Weixiang Yao |
| Farzad Sanati | Mingliang Bai | Wen Dai |
| Federico Fausto Santoro | Mingqiu Ren | Wenhui Ma |
| Feisheng Yang | Mingzhi Chen | Wenshun Sheng |
| Feiyan Min | Miroslav Betuš | Wenzheng Xu |
| Felipe Trujillo-Romero | Mladen Krstić | Wieslaw Pamuła |
| Feng Gao | Mo Elsayed | Wilfredo Yushimito |
| Fenghua Yu | Mohamed K. Elhadad | Wojciech Skarka |
| Fernanda Corrêa | Mohamed Mouafik | Xavier Fernando |
| Fernando Diaz-Del-Rio | Mohamed Mounir | Xiang Zhang |
| Fernando Gandia-Aguera | Mohamed Okasha | Xianghong Xue |
| Fernando Quevedo Vallejo | Mohamed Said Kahaleras | Xianping Guan |
| Fidencio Tapia | Mohammad Afhamisis | Xing He |
| Florin Covaciu | Mohammad Hayajneh | Xing Su |
| Francesco Ardizzon | Mohammad Siraj | Xiucheng Zhu |
| Francesco De Fabiis | Mohammed Itair | Xiwen Zhang |
| Francesco Morgan Bono | Mohammed Omari | Xueming Xiao |
| Francesco Toscano | Mohd Nadeem | Xueping Li |
| Francisco José Mañas-Álvarez | Monika Rybczak | Yafeng Wang |
| Gabriel Murariu | Morshed Alam | Yair Lozano-Hernández |
| Gang Yang | Moshe Meron | Yakui Shao |
| Gaofei Xu | Mostafa A. Elhosseini | Yang Luo |
| Geesoo Lee | Mthabisi Adriano Nyathi | Yang Pang |
| Gennaro Ariante | Muayad Habashneh | Yang Shi |
| George Razvan Buican | Muhammad Babar Imtiaz | Yanzhou Li |
| George S. Maraslidis | Muhammad Bilal | Yasir Ullah |
| George Teseleanu | Muhammad Ishfaq | Yasushi Sumi |
| Georgios Mavropoulos | Muhammad Moshiur Rahman | Yiming Li |
| Gerardo Díaz | Muhammad Usama Yaseen | Yiting Lin |
| Ghulam Mustafa | Muhammad Yeasir Arafat | Yixin He |
| Gia Khanh Tran | Mumtaz Karatas | Yong Yang |
| Giacomo Cabri | Murat Makaracı | Yonggui Yan |
| Gilberto de Jesús López-Canteñs | Murillo Ferreira dos Santos | Yonghong Zhao |
| Gilson Fernandes da Silva | Mustafa Ustuner | Yongzhao Hua |
| Ginés Morales Méndez | Mustafa Wassef | Yuan Ai |
| Giovanna Miceli Ronzani Borille | Nabil Shaukat | Yuanxi Cao |
| Giovanni Farina | Najib Ben Aoun | Yue Ma |
| Gloria Cerasela Crisan | Namhoon Kim | Yuepeng Zhang |
| Gorazd Bombek | Nanmu Hui | Yufei Chu |
| Grace Villacres | Natália Češkovič Gecejová | Yukio Rosales-Luengas |
| Grzegorz Peruń | Nay Lin Oo | Yuping Wang |
| Grzegorz Radzki | Néstor Cristian Di Leo | Yuquan Gan |
| Guangfei Xu | Nguyen Van Sy | Yurii Kynash |
| Guilherme Chaves Barbosa | Nick Tepylo | Yuyan Pan |
| Guilherme Lucas | Nikolaos Georgios Oikonomakis | Zbigniew Gomolka |
| Guillaume Dufour | Nikolaos Gerogiannis | Zeashan Khan |
| Guillermo Valencia-Palomo | Nizar Polat | Zeyuan Shao |
| Gustavo Chica Pedraza | Nuno Vieira Lopes | Zhaoping Du |
| Haibing Wen | Nyoman Karna | Zhaoyu Zhai |
| Haim Mazar | Oguz Kagan Isik | Zhen Liu |
| Haitham Abu Ghazaleh | Oleksandr Tsymbal | Zhen Wei |
| Haiyang Qiu | Oleksii Vambol | Zhenjie Hou |
| Hamada Esmaiel | Olesia Maksymovych | Zhexiong Shang |
| Hamdi Ercan | Olga G. Andrianova | Zhi Sun |
| Hamid Razmjooei | Olga Mitrofanova | Zoran Cica |
| Han Li | Omar Osama Shalash |
