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6 February 2026
Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Oceans in 2025
The editorial office of Oceans 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, Oceans received 532 review reports from contributors across 54 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 Oceans.
| Adam K. Smith | Juan Luis Gómez Pinchetti |
| Adriaan Albert Markus | Julia Parrish |
| Adrián Casanova | Junmin Li |
| Ahmad Umar | Just T. Bayle-Sempere |
| Alan Giraldo | Kae-Kyoung Kwon |
| Alasdair Edwards | Karl J. Wittmann |
| Alberta Mandich | Kate Larkin |
| Alberto Gambelli | Katharina Kniesz |
| Albrey D. Arrington | Katrina Bornt |
| Aleksey V. Troitsky | Ken Ikehara |
| Alen Soldo | Konstantin Belyaev |
| Alexander Dvoretsky | Kristina Čižiūnienė |
| Alexander G. Dvoretsky | Kristine White |
| Alexandr Sergeevich Zapevalov | Krzysztof Kupren |
| Alexandra Alexandrovna Ershova | Lars Robert Hole |
| Alexey Smirnov | Leonel Pereira |
| Alexey V. Golikov | Libor Ansorge |
| Ali Alkhabbaz | Lodewijk Abspoel |
| Ali Haghi Vayghan | Lóránd Silye |
| Alicia L. Sutton | Loukia-Maria Fratsea |
| Aman Kataria | Luca Polimene |
| Amit Ranjan | Ludovic Hoarau |
| Ana B. Ruescas | Luis Alfonso Díaz-Secades |
| Ana Bianca Pavel | Lyubka Pashova |
| Ana Bratoš Cetinić | Madon Bénédicte |
| Ana Virginia Filgueiras | Malcolm Jobling |
| Anabela Oliveira | Manolo Vargas-Yañez |
| Andrés Fernando Barajas Solano | Mantravadi Venkata Subrahmanyam |
| Andrey Ivantsov | Manuel Arias |
| Andrii Murdza | Manuela R. Bizzozzero |
| Angela Baldanza | Marc Hanke |
| Anna Leśniewicz | Marek Chalecki |
| Anne Helene Tandberg | Marek Roman Lipinski |
| Anqing Xuan | María Ana Fernández-Álamo |
| Antonela Paladin | Maria Grazia Mazzocchi |
| Antonina Kremenetskaia | Maria Rajska |
| Apostolos Apostolou | Mariusz Ptak |
| Argyro Zenetos | Massimiliano Marino |
| Arkadiusz Nędzarek | Matteo Selci |
| Arnulfo Alanis | Michael Baldauf |
| Arthur Zhou | Michael J Risk |
| Asim Yaqub | Michael Noonan |
| Balaji Prasath Barathan | Michalis Diakakis |
| Balakrishnan Manikandan | Michelangelo Bisconti |
| Barbara Calcinai | Miguel Guerreiro |
| Behbood Issa-Zadeh | Mikhail Salin |
| Bektaş Sönmez | Mohamed El Amine Ben Seghier |
| Bérenger Colsoul | Mohamed Elnabwy |
| Bert Hoeksema | Mohamed Samy-Kamal |
| Bharat S. Chaudhari | Monwadee Wonglapsuwan |
| Binxin Liu | Mridula Srinivasan |
| Bogdan Gherman | Muhammad Usman |
| Bordbar Amir | Murat Sirin |
| Bowen Xing | Nadav Shashar |
| Brendan J. Runde | Nakita Câmara |
| Bryan John Subong | Nam Thang Ha |
| Burak Ali Çiçek | Nguyen Dinh-Hung |
| C. J. Underwood | Nhung Nguyen |
| Candace J. Grimes | Niel L. Bruce |
| Carlos Pérez-Collazo | Nikolay Natchev |
| Carmen Rubio Armendariz | Ning Li |
| Charles-Francois Boudouresque | Nuzzo Genoveffa |
| Chiara Favaretto | Oliver Wurl |
| Chris Frid | Oumar Sadio |
| Chris Lowe | Ove Pärn |
| Christos Makris | Patricio De Los Rios-Escalante |
| Chryssanthi Antoniadou | Paulo Vale |
| Corinne Corbau | Peng Tian |
| Cornel Dumitru Ilinca | Pengjun Zheng |
| Cotas João | Pere Ferriol |
| Cristina Brito | Petras Prakas |
| Dallas L. Flickinger | Pierre-Marie Poulain |
| Damiano Spagnuolo | Po-Chun Hsu |
| Denis Abessa | Pranaya Kumar Parida |
| Dilek Koc-San | R. Heath Kelsey |
| Dimitrios Klaoudatos | Rachel Joy Harris |
| Dimitrios Moutopoulos | Rachel L. Coppock |
| Dmitry Sharapov | Rafael E. Vásquez |
| Dora Bjedov | Rainer Amon |
| Dorka Cobián-Rojas | René M. Van Westen |
| Douglas Fenner | Richard Smardon |
| Douglas Wartzok | Rigers Bakiu |
| Dušan Nikolić | Roberto Simonini |
| Elena Bisinicu | Roger Chong |
| Elena Quintanilla | Ruey-Syan Shih |
| Elena Елена | Sahar Chebaane |
| Elisa Baldrighi | Sarah Reynolds |
| Elizabeth Jones | Sarat Chandra Mohapatra |
| Emilio Sperone | Sasha Marie Woods |
| Erhan Mutlu | Saskia Esselborn |
| Eric Mortenson | Scott Pegau |
| Erin L. Murphy | Sebastian Holmes |
| Esti Winter | Seo-Yeol Choi |
| Etige Nishchitha Sandeepana Silva | Sergei Turanov |
| Evan K. D'Alessandro | Sergey Dobretsov |
| Evgeny Aleksandrovich Morozov | Sergey Stanichny |
| F. Xavier Martínez De Osés | Shalini Verma |
| Farkhod Akhmedov | Shapour Kakoolaki |
| Fatima El Asri | Shaun Deyzel |
| Fatima Guedes Abrantes | Shawn Larson |
| Federica Montesanto | Sigurd Solheim Pettersen |
| Fengwei Wang | Simon Berrow |
| Fernando Rubino | Simone Cosoli |
| Florin Valentin Rusca | Simone Sanfilippo |
| Francisco Morales-Serna | Sinan Mavruk |
| François Bignalet-Cazalet | Slawomir Blonski |
| Frédéric Muttin | Smirnov Alexander |
| Fulko Van Westrenen | Song Hu |
| Gary M. Wessel | Sook-Jin Jang |
| Gay E. Marsden | Spase Shumka |
| Geena Prasad | Stacy Warren |
| Gerhard Schmidt | Steve Archer |
| Giovanni Coletti | Steven G. Hall |
| Gisela V. Giardino | Steven W. Purcell |
| Giulio Dubbioso | Susan E. Hartman |
| Giuseppe Ciaburro | Svein Vagle |
| Giuseppe Denti | Takanori Horii |
| Gonzalo Saldias | Takashi Miwa |
| Gorana Jelić Mrčelić | Taner Yıldız |
| Gregory Lane-Serff | Tatyana V. Belonenko |
| Gregory Naoki Nishihara | Theodora Boubonari |
| Guang Gao | Theodora Pinou |
| Guido Pietroluongo | Tim Gray |
| Gustavious Paul Williams | Tony Miskiewicz |
| Haijun Yang | V. Sanil Kumar |
| Haitham M. Ayyad | Vaibhav Mantri |
| Heriberto Vazquez | Valente Hernández-Pérez |
| Hermann Kudrass | Valentina Fagiano |
| Hitoshi Tanaka | Valerio Manfrini |
| Hongju Chen | Vanessa Pirotta |
| Hsien-Kuo Chang | Vasily Smolyanitsky |
| Huawei Wang | Veljko Srzic |
| Hudson Robert DeYoe | Viktor Zamshin |
| Hyun Soo Rho | Vitalii A. Sheremet |
| Ignatius Rigor | Vladimir Dvoretsky |
| Ilana Rosental Zalmon | Vyacheslav Lobanov |
| Imed Jribi | Waleed Raza |
| Imran Ali | Wan Zakiah Wan Ismail |
| Ioan Munteanu | Wendy Ermold |
| Iris Segura-Garcia | Wenjin Sun |
| Iwona Wrobel-Niedzwiecka | Won-bae Na |
| James Conder | Wongyu Park |
| Jan Bocianowski | Xavier Carton |
| Javier Tovar-Ávila | XinZheng Li |
| Jean-François Mangot | Xiubao Li |
| Jelena Svorcan | Yannis Hatzonikolakis |
| Jens J. Currie | Yen-Chiang Chang |
| Jesús M. Mercado | Yiqing Song |
| Jian-Yu Hu | Yu Yan |
| Jibiao Zhang | Yulia Gubelit |
| Jie Tian | Yulianto Suteja |
| Jing Yu | Yumeng Pang |
| Jingwen Qi | Yun-Chih Chiang |
| Joan Cartes | Yuya Kumagai |
| John E. Gatesy | Zaloa Sanchez Varela |
| John M. Huthnance | Zhaoshan Zhong |
| Joonho Lee | Zhenhua Zhang |
| Jorge A. Ruiz-Vanoye | Zhenjun Zheng |
| Jorge Chavez-Villalba | Zhou Xing |
| José Iannacone Oliver | Živana Ninčević Gladan |
| José Lino Costa | Zizheng Guo |
| Juan Jose Muñoz | Zohaib Noor |
