Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Metabolites in 2025
2 February 2026
The editorial office of Metabolites 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, Metabolites received 3905 review reports from contributors across 97 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 Metabolites.
| Aranganoor Kannan Thiruvenkadan | Gokul Patil | Noura Ahmed |
| Abdul Wakeel Umar | Gorkem Durak | Novita Intan Arovah |
| Abhishek Gupta | Gowthami Mahendran | Nurdan Tuna Gunes |
| Abhishek Kumar | Gozde Busra Eroglu | Nurhan Keskin |
| Abigail Moreno-Pedraza | Guilherme Henrique Tamarindo | Oana Timofte |
| Abraham Wall-Medrano | Guilherme Renke | Oana-Irina Patriciu |
| Abraham Abbey Paul | Gulali Aktas | Octavia Gligor |
| Ach Taieb | Guoan Shi | Okoth Patrick Kirsteen |
| Achraf Abdou | Guru Prasad Mandal | Oleh Koshovyi |
| Adelina Silvana Gheorghe | Güzin Kaban | Olga Echeverri |
| Adina Thomaidis | Hai-Shu Lin | Olga Ivanovna Vernaya |
| Aditi Chopra | Hamed Kioumarsi | Olga Luzina |
| Adrian Macri | Hamza Kucuk | Olga Panfilova |
| Agnieszka Chrustek | Hanel Sadi van Gijsen | Olimpio Montero |
| Agnieszka Sujak | Hao Wang | Omer Baris Ince |
| Ahmad Aljohmani | Hassan Rasouli | Orhan Karakaya |
| Ahmad K. Al-Khazaleh | He Tian | Osama A. Saeed |
| Ahmed Bakillah | Heather Desaire | Oscar Casanova Carvajal |
| Ahmed Dhamad | Hector Ivan Saldivar Ceron | Osvelia Esmeralda Rodríguez Luis |
| Ahmed M. Mostafa | Heidar Sajedi | Paula Brazao Mendes Luis |
| Ahmet Hulusi Dinçoğlu | Herbert Ryan Marini | Paweł Krzyżek |
| Ahmet Salih Tüzen | Hewang Lee | Pedro Paulo Menezes Scariot |
| Ahsan Mustafa | Hiroshi Sakaue | Pedro Rodrigues |
| Aiman Hina | Hiroshi Tanaka | Periyasamy Rathinapriya |
| Alan Gasiński | Hiroyuki Kataoka | Peter Frost |
| Albert Rizvanov | Hiroyuki Noda | Peter Piko |
| Aleksandra Mihail Tasić | Hongyuhang Ni | Petr G. Lokhov |
| Alessandro Conforti | Hongzhi Wu | Petr N. Menshanov |
| Alexander Panov | Huachun Sheng | Pilar Zafrilla |
| Alexander Olegovich Chizhov | Huoxiang Zhou | Piotr Cybulski |
| Alexander V. Zakharov | Igor Ivanov | Polavarapu Bilhan Kavi Kishor |
| Alexander Zakharov | Igor S. Kovalev | Polina Turova |
| Alexandra Cristina Tocai-Moţoc | Ilkay Erdogan Orhan | Polona Žigon |
| Alexandra Lianou | Imtiaz Rabbani | Pooja Makwana |
| Alexandra S. Dubrovina | Ioannis Zabetakis | Prabhaharan Renganathan |
| Alexei Borisovich Chukhlovin | Irfan Idris | Prakash Sojitra |
| Alexey G. Mittenberg | Irina Bianca Kosovski | Pranav Bhaskar |
| Alexey Panov | Irina Kologrivova | Pratibha Gopalkrishna |
| Alexey Sarapultsev | Irina Lyubushkina | Prem Rajak |
| Alexis Murillo Carrasco | Irina Viktorovna Sukhovskaya | Priyanka Samanta |
| Ali Kashkooe | Isa Coşkun | Prodan Catalin |
| Alin-Constantin Pînzariu | Isaac Hyeladi Malgwi | Przemysław Domaszewski |
| Alisa Pautova | Isaac Oluseun Adejumo | Przemysław Hałubiec |
| Alla Perfileva | Israel S. Afolabi | Pushpendra Koli |
| Almagul Kurmanova | Iulia Varzaru | Rafael Salto |
| Alyona Alexandrovna Nikonova | Ivan Bogdanov | Raghav Dogra |
| Ameen A. Abu-Hashem | Iván Jesús Jiménez-Pulido | Raisa Nasir Ahmed Kazi |
| Amin Daemi | Ivan V. Moskalenko | Raj Kumar Sharma |
| Amit Baran Sharangi | Ivana Bozic Antic | Rajaa Sebaa |
| Ammara Riaz | Jai P. Rai | Rajesh Selvaraj |
| Ana Carolina Abrantes | James B. Gibson | Rakhee Rathnam Kalari Kandy |
| Ana Sofia Henriques da Costa | Jaroslaw Koza | Raluca Isac |
| Anahita Ghorbani Tajani | Jarosław Sobolewski | Ram B. Singh |
| Ana-Marija Liberati Pršo | Javad Javidnia | Ramachnadran Samivel |
| Anand Swaminathan | Jerzy Bełtowski | Ranjeet Kumar |
| Anastasia Arturovna Semenova | Jesús Alberto Vázquez-Rodríguez | Raobo Xu |
| Anastasiia Shcherbitskaia | Jiale Zhang | Raul Díaz |
| Anastasiia Krivoruchko | Jiaman Wu | Rayudika Aprilia Patindra Purba |
| Anca Dragan | Jian Yang | Rehab Mohamed Atta Mahmoud Eldesoukey |
| André Correa de Oliveira Sagat | Jianan Zhao | Reinaldo Isaacs Beron |
| Andre de Lima Aires | Jiangshan Zhan | Remington X. Poulin |
| Andrea Annibal | Jiawei Ling | Renfang S. Taylor |
| Andrea Braakhuis | Jibran Hussain | Renhao Lu |
| Andrea Jiménez-Franco | Jie Liu | Reyna Rodríguez Mortera |
| Andreas Romulo | Jing Hongwu | Ricardo Guerra |
| Andreas Tsakalof | Jingle Jiang | Ricardo Pereira-Pinto |
| Andreea Nelson Twakor | Joana Rossell | Rima Kirakosyan |
| Andrei Khlebnikov | João Tomás Cruz | Ritika Kurian |
| Andrei Cristian Grădinaru | João Valentini Neto | Roberto Cannataro |
| Andres Camargo-Sanchez | John Dotis | Roberto Milazzotto |
| Andrey Sgibnev | Jonathan H. Foreman | Rodolfo Pinto-Almazán |
| Andrey Elchaninov | Jonathan Mosley | Rolando Hernández-Muñoz |
| Andrey Markov | Jorge David Cadena-Zamudio | Roman A. Sidorov |
| Anfal Al-Dalaeen | Jorge Gutiérrez-Cuevas | Roman Puzanskiy |
| Angana Mukherjee | Jose A. Morales-González | Romana Marko Masnikosa |
| Ángel Arturo López González | José Antonio Guerrero-Solano | Romen Singh Naorem |
| Anil Kumar Meher | José Carlos de la Flor | Ronaldo de Almeida |
| Anjale Rajagopal | Joseph O. Erhabor | Rosa Alba Sola-Martínez |
| Anjar Purba Asmara | Joshna Gadhavi | Roxana Carbo |
| Anna A. Ivanova | Jovana Miskovic | Rubí Rodríguez-Díaz |
| Anna A. Brilkina | Jovana Rajkovic | Rubina Bhutani |
| Anna Bilska-Wilkosz | József L. Szentpéteri | Rui Zhou |
| Anna Bizoń | Juan Antonio Torres Rodriguez | Ruohong Wang |
| Anna Kabłak-Ziembicka | Juan E. Cedrún-Sánchez | Saeed Dabbagh Nikoukheslat |
| Anna Kosyreva | Juan Salazar | Saeed Torbati |
| Annie Joubert | Jun-Su Choi | Saeid Shamlou Kazemi |
| Anton Sumarpo | Junyi Tao | Sajid Iqbal |
| Anton R. Kiselev | Justin K. Thomas | Sajid Khan Tahir |
| Anupama Tiwari | K. B. V. Brahma Rao | Salahuddin Salahuddin |
| Aparna Shukla | Kaibing Zhou | Salar Hafez Ghoran |
| Arancha Llama-Palacios | Kamalrul Azlan Azizan | Saleem Jaffar |
| Areti Kourti | Kamil Szymczak | Salvatore Vaccaro |
| Arianna Filippelli | Kamila Sabino Batista | Samson Adeoye Oyeyinka |
| Arkadiusz Kocur | Kanokwan Kulprachakarn | Sandip B. Jadhav |
| Artem D. Rogachev | Karol Jelonek | Sangharsha Thapa |
| Artem Olegovich Rozhin | Karolina A. Wojtunik-Kulesza | Sanjeev Kumar Yadav |
| Arumugam Vignesh | Kashif Khan | Sanjin Kovacevic |
| Arunkumar Jagadeesan | Katarina Baralić | Santosh A. Misal |
| Arvind Sharma | Katarzyna Hodun-Bielska | Santwana Palai |
| Ashot Avagimyan | Kazim Arga | Sarah Aggag |
| Ashutosh Rai | Kazuhiko Nakadate | Šarlota Kaňuková |
| Asif Iqbal | Ken-Ichi Aihara | Sebastian John Adams |
| Asif Iqbal Khan | Kevinn Eddy | Serap Özer Yaman |
| Asim Munawar | Kinga Kropiwiec-Domańska | Serdar Beken |
| Athina Angelopoulou | Kirill Tkachenko | Sergei Grishin |
| Atul Rathore | Ko Fujimori | Sergey A. Apryatin |
| Aunchalee Aussanasuwannakul | Komal N. Rawal | Sergey V. Efimov |
| Avinash Mishra | Kotaro Kitaya | Sevgi Marakli |
| Awani Kumar Singh | Krishna Kishore Mahalingan | Seyed Mohamadmehdi Moshtaghion |
| Aya M. Mustafa | Krishnendu Ghosh | Sezer Okay |
| Ayona Jayadev | Kritika Srinivasan Rajsri | Shah Faisal |
| Aysel Caglan Çağlan Gunal | Kuniyuki Kano | Shah Zaman |
| Bala Kondaiah Nimmana | Laith G. Shareef | Shahzad Zafar Iqbal |
| Balázs Ratku | Lakshmanan Govindan | Sharui Ma |
| Bang-Gee Hsu | Larissa Della Vedova | Shayma T. G. Al-Sahlany |
| Barbara Głowińska-Olszewska | Lars Kaiser | Shehwaz Anwar |
| Barbara Symanowicz | Lateef Ahmad | Shiblur Rahaman |
| Barış Yıldız | Laura Pérez-Campos Mayoral | Shirley Arbizu |
| Basil Barth Duwa | Leena Raju Dhoble | Shivang Sunil Parikh |
| Bekri Xhemali | Lei Huang | Shivani Ror |
| Bhagavathi Sundaram Sivamaruthi | Lei Lv | Shivani Srivastava |
| Bhupinder Kumar | Leonardo Tenori | Shrabani Pradhan |
| Bilal El-Mansoury | Lidia Ashrafovna Baltina | Shuang Zhao |
| Bin Wang | Lin-Fu Liang | Silvio R. De Luka |
| Biswajit Patra | Lingaiah Maram | Simona Fenizia |
| Biswaranjan Senapati | Lipin Ji | Siniša Škondrić |
| Bogdana Virgolici | Liqing Zang | Sinyavina Nadezhda |
| Bojana Andrejić Visnjic | Lissé Angarita | Sławomir Orzechowski |
| Boleslaw T. Karwowski | Liubov I. Kolesnikova | Snezana Pantovic |
| Camelia Munteanu | Liudmila Zotova | Sojit Tomo |
| Carlo Boselli | Loai A. Shakerdi | Sonali Mishra |
| Carlos Farinha | Loai Shakerdi | Song Yu |
| Carlos Manuel Ortiz-Mendoza | Longxi Li | Soundara Viveka Thangaraj |
| Carmelo Caldarella | Lorenzo D. Granados Rivera | Spase Stojanov |
| Carmen Rodica Maximilian | Ludwig Matrisch | Srikanth Ponneganti |
| Cécil J.W. Meulenberg | Luís Miguel de Aquino Moreira | Srinivas Chatla |
| Cemil Aydoğan | Luis Victor Rodríguez Durán | Stanislav I. Pekov |
| Cerecedo Doris | Luis Vieira Ribeiro | Stephen Inbaraj Baskaran |
| Cesar Sotelo-Leyva | Lyudmila Bel'Skaya | Subramanian Ezhil Vendan |
| Cezary Osiak-Wicha | Lyudmila Pivina | Sudad Kadhim Al-Taweel |
| Chandra Mohan Reddy Muthumula | Maciej Przybyłek | Sudharshan Setra Janardhana Shetty |
| Chanin Khomlaem | Maciej Stanisław Walędziak | Sujan Ray |
| Chanwit Kaewtapee | Madalina Alexandra Davidescu | Sujit Shah |
| Chao Huang | Magdalena Iuliana Rufa | Sumit Kumar |
| Chen Dong | Maghsoud Besharati | Sunanda Biswas |
| Chen Zhang | Mahmoud Kamal | Sundar Madasamy |
| Cheng Guo | Mahmoud S. Desoky | Suresh K. Nagumalli |
| Chetan Sharma | Mai M. El-Daly | Suresh N. Nair |
| Chi-Ching Lee | Maja Hitl | Sureshbabu Ram Kumar Pandian |
| Chintan Kapadia | Małgorzata Szczuko | Susana Coimbra |
| Christopher Stremmel | Mamunur Rashid | Suvithanandhini Loganathan |
| Chun-Hsien Su | Manasi Agrawal | Suzanne M. de la Monte |
| Cihad Dundar | Manjit Panigrahi | Svetlana Aidagulova |
| Ciprian N. Silaghi | Manoel Rios | Svetlana Ivanova |
| Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo | Manuel Gómez-Guzmán | Svetlana Merenkova |
| Claudia Lambiase | Maosud Soroush Bathaei | Svetlana V. Guryanova |
| Cristian Loretelli | Marcello Molle | Swapnil Parve |
| Cristian V. A. Munteanu | Marco Romano | Sylwia Dziegielewska-Gesiak |
| Cristian-Alin Barbacariu | Margarita Neganova | Szymon Dziomba |
| Damir Vučinić | Maria Antonietta Castiglione Morelli | Tahir Yusuf Noorani |
| Dang-Khoa Vo | Maria Magdalena Aguirre-Garcia | Tamara Basishvili |
| Daniel Clayton-Chubb | María Nieves Muñoz-Alcaraz | Tanja M. Lunić |
| Daniel Dumitru Nisulescu | María Teresa Hernández-Huerta | Tao Jing |
| Daniel Ortuño-Sahagún | Marialuisa Sveva Marozzi | Tarik Ainane |
| Daniela Elena Serban | Mariana Florica Bei | Tatiana Alexandrovna Fedotcheva |
| Daniele Napolitano | Mariana Petrova Genova | Tatiana Palotta Minari |
| Daniil Olennikov | Maria-Paraskevi Belioka | Tatiana Usenko |
| Danqing Wang | Marija Obradović | Tatiana V. Vygodina |
| Darinka Gjorgieva Ackova | Marija Paunovic | Tatjana Slavoljub Radosavljević |
| David Michel Oliveira | Marios C. Christodoulou | Tatsuya Sato |
| David Sergeevichev | Marius Ivanuta | Teodora Dominteanu |
| Debabrata Mandal | Mariya A. Smetanina | Terry Smith |
| Desheng Wu | Marjan Talebi | Thamali Kariyawasam |
| Dessislava Gerginova | Mark J. Roef | Tine Hansen |
| Dhananjay Yadav | Martina Gažarová | Torsak Tippairote |
| Diego Antonio Mena Canata | Marvin A. Soriano-Ursua | Triantafyllos Didangelos |
| Dilara Maslennikova | Marwan El Ghoch | Troy Dale Wood |
| Dilip Kumar Swain | Marzena Sujkowska-Rybkowska | Ulyana S. Zubairova |
| Dimas Rahadian Aji Muhammad | Masharh Lipscomb | Umesh Kumar |
| Dimitris Miliopoulos | Mateusz Kutyła | Umut Devrim Binay |
| Dina G. Nevidomskaya | Matteo Della Porta | Upasna Srivastava |
| Dinesh Kumar | Matthias Stefan Klein | Uri Keshet |
| Dipanjan Banerjee | Mauro Ceccanti | Utku Şanver |
| Djshwar Dhahir Lateef | Maxim Alexeevich Filatov | Vadim Genkel |
| Dmitry Gruzdev | Melinda Kovacs | Valbona Sota |
| Dmitry Khramov | Mengfan Qin | Valentina Mittova |
| Dmitry Kosyakov | Mengqi Ma | Vanja Milija Tadić |
| Dmitry Tanyanskiy | Meng-Tsan Chiang | Vanja Vuksanovic |
| Dmitry Verbenko | Mervan Bayraktar | Varucha Misra |
| Donatella Degl'Innocenti | Mian Abdur Rehman Arif | Vasantha-Srinivasan Prabhakaran |
| Dongwang Wu | Michael Zhuo Wang | Vasileios Alexandros Karakousis |
| Dongzhu Ma | Michela Buonocore | Vasilii Chulkov |
| Dora Bjedov | Miguel Angel Rubio-Herrera | Vasiliy V. Nokhsorov |
| Dragana Filipovic | Mikel Jordhani | Vasily A. Aleshin |
| Drew Budner | Mikhail Inyushin | Vasily Svetashev |
| Dritan Topi | Milen Hristov | Velislava Todorova |
| Durairaj Siva | Milena Matuszczak | Vesselina Evtimova Yanachkova |
| Durgesh Kumar Jaiswal | Milica Aćimović | Victor Aguilar-Hernández |
| Edisson Tello | Min Zeng | Victória Dogani Rodrigues |
| Eduardo Rivadeneyra Domínguez | Mina Miroslavova Pencheva | Victoria Yurchenko |
| Edward Kyei Twum | Mirko Treccani | Viktar Lemiasheuski |
| Edward S. Gasanoff | Mohamed E. Elnosary | Violeta-Elena Simion |
| Egor Plotnikov | Mohamed H. A. Gadelmawla | Virayu Suthiphasilp |
| Eiichiro Fukusaki | Mohamed H. Ahmed | Virginio Garcia-Lopez |
| Ekaterina Andreevna Narodova | Mohamed Hassan | Vishal Manjunatha |
| Ekaterina Dinastiia | Mohammad A. Alfhili | Vishwas Bapat |
| Ekaterina Leonidovna Vodeneeva | Mohammad Sadegh Taghizadeh | Vivek Kumar |
| Ekaterina Vladimirovna Zakharova | Mohammed Ramadan | Vladimir Bilim |
| Elavarasan Krishnamoorthy | Mohd Jameel | Wagdi Saber Soliman |
| Elena Dinte | Mohd. Kamran Khan | Walaa Mohamed Sayed Gomaa |
| Elena-Lia Spoiala | Mohsin Aslam | Wei Dai |
| Eleonora Hristova Hristova-Atanasova | Moisés Tolentino Bento da Silva | Wei Wang |
| Elisa Duranti | Mona Luciana Galatanu | Wen Harold Chen |
| Elżbieta Krzęcio-Nieczyporuk | Monica Narvaez Rivas | Wenfeng Chen |
| Emina Sudar-Milovanovic | Monika Fekete | Weronika Antoł |
| Emyr Reisha Isaura | Mostafa Bokharaeian | Wi-Young So |
| Enoch Mensah | Muchtaridi Muchtaridi | Xiao-Chen Liu |
| Enrique Jacobo Jacobo Díaz-Montaña | Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid | Xiaohua Yi |
| Er Sheng Gong | Muhammad Afzaal | Xin Li |
| Eslam Tefal | Muhammad Amjad Ali | Xing Huang |
| Esra Demir Unal | Muhammad Anas | Xueyan Lin |
| Eui-Jae Lee | Muhammad Azam | Xusheng Wang |
| Evgenii Kukaev | Muhammad Bilal Sadiq | Yana Gvozdeva |
| Evgeny Ermakov | Muhammad Farhan Qadir | Yana Zorkina |
| Evgeny R. Bojko | Muhammad Farooq | Yang Chen |
| Eyyüp Karaogul | Muhammad Kashif Yar | Yang Liu |
| Fabio Buonsenso | Muhammad Sohaib | Yaseen Khan |
| Faheem Shehjar | Muhammed Duman | Yashendra Sethi |
| Farouq Heidar Barido | Mukesh Shivran | Yavuz Ayar |
| Fatih Hanci | Mustafa Bodu | Yazan Ranneh |
| Fatma Hilal Yagin | Mustafa Sevindik | Yelena Valentinovna Likhoshway |
| Federica Trovato | Muthukumar Serva Peddha | Yi-Hsin Chen |
| Fei Wang | Muttiah Barathan | Yizhi Jiang |
| Felipe Leite Oliveira | Nadezhda Bogolyubova | Yongjie Wang |
| Felix Javier Jiménez-Jiménez | Nadezhda Golubkina | Yosra Ahmed Soltan |
| Feng Xu | Nagendraprabhu Ponnuraj | Yousaf Khan |
| Fernando Mata | Naglaa M. Ammar | Yousi Fu |
| Fernando Porcelli | Narasimha S. Lakka | Yu Han |
| Fırat Işlek | Naruemon Leelayuwat | Yu Zhou |
| Firsov Aleksey | Nataliya Petinati | Yulia Frank |
| Florin Filip | Nataša Bubić Pajić | Yulia P. Sapozhnikova |
| Florin Stan | Nattan Stalin | Yuliya Frolova |
| Frederik Loewenstein | Navaz Kharazian | Yun Zhang |
| Fumiaki Uchiumi | Nazeha Abdelrahman Khalil | Yunxiang Zhou |
| Gábor Nagy-Grócz | Neelesh Kumar | Yuriy L. Orlov |
| Ganesh Bhat | Nelson Enrique Conde Parada | Yuriy Orlov |
| Geetika Sirhindi | Neluwa-Liyanage Ruwan Indika | Yusuke Nishimura |
| Gelena V. Kakurina | Nergiz Gürbüz Çolak | Zahra Keshtmand |
| Georgescu Emil | Nermina Spaho | Zakaria Al-Qodah |
| Georgi Georgiev Antov | Nihal Inandiklioğlu | Zeinab Ghorbani |
| Giacomo Di Matteo | Nikita A. Mitkin | Zhaohui Yang |
| Gianluca Marcaccini | Niko Radulović | Zhaoyu Zheng |
| Gil Fraqueza | Nina Filip | Zhelyazko Terziyski |
| Giorgia Simonetti | Nina I. Kashchenko | Zhencheng Xie |
| Giovanni Mario Pes | Niroj Paudel | Zhengwei Huang |
| Giovanni Mazzucato | Nishant Raj Kapoor | Zhicheng Liu |
| Gitea Daniela | Nora Hosny | Zhongmin Zou |
| Giulio Cirignaco | Noroska Gabriela Mogollón | Zoran Gluvic |
| Godfrey Mutashambara Rwegerera |