Acknowledgment of the Reviewers of Social Sciences in 2023
24 January 2024
In recognizing the exceptional efforts of our reviewers in 2023, we express our sincere gratitude for upholding the high standards of Social Sciences. Their commitment ensured the rigorous peer review that is integral to quality academic publishing.
In 2023, Social Sciences received 2678 review reports, from 2198 reviewers. This past year, we worked with reviewers from 85 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 Social Sciences 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:
| Abeer Elshater | Jun Wu |
| Abel Lerma | Junaidi Junaidi |
| Abraham Bernárdez-Gómez | Jungyeon Sung |
| Adina Schneeweis | Justin Sprague |
| Adolfo Carratalá | K. P. Wat |
| Adrienne Cohen | Ka Huen Yip |
| Ahmed Raza Ul Mustafa | Karel Van Den Bosch |
| Ahmet Güneyli | Karsih Karsih |
| Ahmet Keser | Katalin Capannini-Kelemen |
| Ainara Larrondo Ureta | Kate Clayton-Hathway |
| Alan Da Silva | Kate Kingsbury |
| Alejandro Carlos Galindo Durán | Katie Brooker |
| Aleksander Lotko | Katrina Milaney |
| Alena Buková | Kavitha Haldorai |
| Alena Zolotareva | Kelli Sanderson |
| Alessandra Carioli | Kévin Vezirian |
| Alessandra Vitullo | Keyuan Zou |
| Alexandre Hudon | Komlan Agbedahin |
| Alfredo Pina | Krishan Sood |
| Alice Iannaccone | Kristine Hill |
| Alistair Ross | Kyle Sue |
| Álvaro García Del Castillo | Laima Jesevičiūtė-Ufartienė |
| Amar Razzaq | Lalitha Madhavi Konila Sriram |
| Amelia Staszowska | Lasse Christiansen |
| Amelia Victoria Garcia Luengo | Lassoued Zohra |
| Amparo Huertas-Bailén | Laura Guerrero Puerta |
| Amy Argenal | Laura Stephenson |
| Ana Alcázar Campos | Lauren Bellaera |
| Ana I. Alegre | Laurent Spinelle |
| Ana Prada | Lei He |
| Ana Santos | Leonardo La Rosa Barrolleta |
| Ana Sofia Ribeiro | Leonie Brummer |
| Ana Sovic Krzic | Leonor Torres |
| Anastasia Blouchoutzi | Li-Chen Sim |
| André Ramalho | Lidwina Nurtjahyo |
| Andrea Löther | Liisa Laakso |
| Andrea Rakushin Lee | Liliana Jacott |
| Andreas Walmsley | Liliana Mata |
| Andrew Oberg | Lisa Birnbaum |
| Andrzej Kielian | Lisa Maria Glenk |
| Andrzej Klimczuk | Liviu-Adrian Cotfas |
| Angel De-Juanas | Ljubica Ivanovic Bibic |
| Angel Miramontes Carballada | Lori Martin |
| Angelique Howell | Louis Moustakas |
| Anita Acai | Louise Livesey |
| Anna Aseeva | Luciana Oliveira |
| Anna Bara | Lucio Inguscio |
| Anna Faustmann | Luiz Peres-Neto |
| Anna Rogozińska-Pawełczyk | Łukasz Brzeziński |
| Anne B. Reinertsen | Luminita Popescu |
| Anne Krayer | Lusi Zhang |
| Annelie Andersén | Madeleine Dobson |
| Annemieke C. Vink | Mahdi Salehi |
| Antonio Castillo Paredes | Maia Lordkipanidze |
| Antonio Gavira-Narváez | Manuel Soriano |
| Antonio Miguel Linares-Luján | Mar García-Gordillo |
| António Moreira | Mara Manente |
| Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú | Marcello Nonnis |
| Ariadna Hernaiz-Sanchez | Marcin Janusz |
| Asifa Iqbal | Marcio Basilio |
| Asli Yalim | Márcio Oliveira |
| Attila Lengyel | Marco Cruz-Sandoval |
| Augustina Asih Rumanti | Margaret Hills De Zárate |
| Azlinzuraini Ahmad | Margareta Gregurović |
| Bartosz Rymkiewicz | Margherita Daverio |
| Beata Bieszk-Stolorz | Margherita Vestoso |
| Beata Hoffmann | Margie Patrick |
| Beatrice Adriana Balgiu | María Ángeles García-Gil |
| Beatriz Cabellos | Maria Armaou |
| Bei Ju | Maria Campos |
| Bettina Piko | Maria Carvalho |
| Bianor Valente | Maria Dâmaso |
| Bibhuti Sar | Maria Elena Latino |
| Biedma Ferrer José María | Maria Helena Santos |
| Bojan Đerčan | Maria João Trigueiro |
| Bolborici Ana-Maria | Maria Leonor Abrantes Pires |
| Bonginkosi E. Mthembu | Maria Teresa Ferreira Moreira |
| Boyka Stefanova | Maria Vukovich |
| Brian Law | Maria-Crina Radu |
| Brian Littlechild | Marian Mihai |
| Brigitte Weiffen | Mariana Magalhães |
| Bruno Ferreira Costa | Mariana Sousa |
| Çağdaş Ümit Yazgan | Mario Amatria |
| Camelia Delcea | Mario Gómez |
| Carla Carvalho | Mario Marendić |
| Carla Morais | Marion Panizzon |
| Carl-Mario Sultana | Marlyn Bennett |
| Carlo Genova | Marta Talavera |
| Carolina Machado | Marta Tarrés |
| Chadwick Co Sy Su | Martha Matsuoka |
| Charitha Dias | Martin Falk |
| Charlotte Galloway | Martin Hoondert |
| Chenxiang Li | Martin Popevic |
| Cheryl Beseler | Martina Feilzer |
| Chiara Galli | Martina Ferić |
| Chien Nguyen | Mary Blair-Loy |
| Chong Myung Park | Mateusz Pszczyński |
| Chris Allen | Matteo Angelo Fabris |
| Chris Rolph | Matteo Bozzi |
| Christian Kaunert | Matthias Lukasczik |
| Christine Ipsen | Maurizio Busacca |
| Christoph Novak | Md Jahangir Alam |
| Chunshan Sandie Yi | Meimei Wang |
| Ciro José Jardim De Figueiredo | Michael Cope |
| Clare Daniel | Michael Dougherty |
| Codruta Popescu | Michael Gerlich |
| Corrine Cash | Michael Hast |
| Cosmin Salasan | Michael Nolan |
| Cristina Díaz-Martín | Michael Whelan |
| Cristina Drumea | Michail Kalogiannakis |
| Cristina Tripon | Miguel Ángel Negrín Medina |
| Cristóbal Fernández-Muñoz | Miguel Ángel Sánchez Jiménez |
| Croitoru Gabriel | Mihai Olanescu |
| Csaba Veres | Mihai S. Rusu |
| Cuong Huu Nguyen | Mika Simonen |
| Cynthia Gordon Da Cruz | Miroslav Mitrovic |
| Cynthia Pelak | Mohammad Safari |
| Dafni Petkou | Mónica Pires |
| Daisuke Akiba | Muhammad Asali |
| Dale Snauwaert | Muhammad Azeem Ashraf |
| Daniel Cardoso | Muhammad N. Zahid |
| Daniel-Rareș Obadă | Mustafa Yeniasır |
| David Blanco-Herrero | N. P. Dammika Padmakanthi |
| David Cabello-Manrique | Nader Nciri |
| David Cingranelli | Natalia V. Volkova |
| David Evans | Nataša Bokan |
| David Gray | Naw Safrin Sattar |
| David Gunnarsson | Nicoletta Vittadini |
| David Harrison | Nikolas Wuryaningrat |
| David J. Gunkel | Nikos Lambrinos |
| David Olusegun Sotola | Nilanjana Ray |
| Debra Wetcher-Hendricks | Nives Vidak |
| Denis Bernardeau-Moreau | Noelia García Castillo |
| Denis Köhler | Noella Edelmann |
| Dev Gangjee | Norbert Ebert |
| Dewi Herawaty | Norhazliza Abd Halim |
| Diego Bellini | Odra Saucedo |
| Diego Mantoan | Olga Magano |
| Diego Peruchi Trevisan | Omar Boubker |
| Dieter Hohenwarter | Oscar Navarro |
| Doris Wydra | Outi Hakola |
| Dorota Werbińska | Pallavi Singh |
| Duangrudee Kositgittiwong | Patricia Kardambikis |
| Dushad Ram | Patricia Mckay |
| Eduardo Mosquera Adell | Patricia Sánchez-Holgado |
| Edyta Ropuszyńska-Surma | Patrick Heinrich |
| Efthalia Chatzigianni | Patrizio Vanella |
| Eileen Brennan | Paul Schiff Berman |
| Einat Metzl | Paul Vermeer |
| Eirene Katsarou | Paula Ferreira |
| Ekaterina Tarpomanova | Pedro Roman-Gravan |
| Ekaterina Ugnich | Peng Cui |
| Elbert Almazan | Pepka Boyadjieva |
| Eleftheria Egel | Petar Milić |
| Elias Dritsas | Peter Choate |
| Elisabeth Harrison | Peter Kondrla |
| Elisete Diogo | Peter Wade |
| Elitsa Dimitrova | Philippe Masson |
| Elizabeth Dartnall | Pilar Ibáñez-Cubillas |
| Elizabeth Shotton | Pilar Lacasa |
| Elizabeth Taylor | Pilar Vicente-Fernández |
| Emese Berei | Pinelopi Vergou |
| Emin Poljarevic | Ping-Tsan Ho |
| Emma Short | Piotr Karniej |
| Enrique Gea-Izquierdo | Prodromos Yannas |
| Epp Lauk | Prof. Dr Suratno Msi |
| Erika Gebo | Rachel Hogg |
| Ernesto Castaneda | Rachelle Hole |
| Esmaeel Saemi | Radoslaw Wolniak |
| Esther Cascarosa | Radu Florin Ogarca |
| Eugenio De Gregorio | Radu-Ioan Popa |
| Evangelos Papakitsos | Rafael Almeida |
| Fabio Clementi | Rafael García-Quesada |
| Fábio Py | Rainer Rubira |
| Fanli Jia | Ramona Obermeier |
| Federica Zardo | Rawaa Qasha |
| Federico Salfi | Raymond Opdenakker |
| Felipe Moreira | Renita Coleman |
| Fernando Barragán-Medero | Ricardo Baúto |
| Fernando Taques | Ricardo Klein |
| Francesco Massoni | Riccardo Vecellio Segate |
| Francisco Cesário | Ricky Kemarau |
| Francisco Javier Cantero Sánchez | Rita Basílio Simões |
| Francisco Villegas Lirola | Rita Panaoura |
| Fraser Carson | Robert Boyd |
| Fulgencio Sánchez Vera | Robert Crammond |
| Furrina Lee | Robert Didham |
| Gábor Mélypataki | Robert Jessop |
| Gabriela Muñoz | Robert M. Carini |
| Gabriella Esposito De Vita | Robert Machowski |
| Gabriella Graziuso | Robert Wolny |
| George Koulierakis | Roberto Sanchez-Cabrero |
| Georgi Panov | Rohit Madan |
| Georgios Maris | Rong Liu |
| Giannino Melotti | Rubén Rivas-De-Roca |
| Gil Ferreira | Rudolf Von Sinner |
| Giulio Perrotta | Russell Triplett |
| Gonzalo Malvarez | Ruziana Masiran |
| Graciela Padilla-Castillo | Sahar Zavareh Hofmann |
| Graham Nutbrown | Salvador Martinez Puche |
| Gregory L. Bock | Samy Sayed |
| Guowen Shang | Saqib Saeed |
| Hang Jiang | Sara Real Castelao |
| Hanna Liberska | Sarah Bruhn |
| Harrie De Swart | Sarah Jane Brubaker |
| Hasif Rafidee Hasbollah | Self-Burcu Ellis |
| Hassan Banaruee | Semiyu Aderibigbe |
| Hatoon Alfassi | Sergey Myamlin |
| Heba El-Deghaidy | Serkan Uçan |
| Heikki Räisänen | Shelly Mcgrath |
| Heiko Pääbo | Sheng-Cheng Lin |
| Helena Belchior Rocha | Shirley Wyver |
| Honggang Liu | Sıddika Songül Yalçın |
| Hourakhsh Ahmad Nia | Sílvia Lopes |
| Hui Xiao | Silvia Monaco |
| Hui-Ju Tsai | Silvia Rueda Pascual |
| Hung-Pin Huang | Simona Giordano |
| Hyo Young Lee | Simone Donati |
| Ian Falk | Simone Piras |
| Ikupa Moses | Slava Rodríguez |
| Iliana E. Aguilar-Rodríguez | Sol García-Germán |
| Inês Casquilho-Martins | Stavros Kalogiannidis |
| Ingi Edvardsson | Ştefan Cristian Gherghina |
| Ingrid Engdahl | Stefania M. L. Rimoldi |
| Ioana Manafi | Stefano Tambuzzi |
| Ioana Moldovan | Susan Rifkin |
| Ioannis Katsantonis | Susana Sastre-Merino |
| Irati Agirreazkuenaga | Suzana Demyen |
| Irene Rossetto | Syed Latifi |
| Iresh Jayawardena | Tamas Molnar |
| Irfan Ullah | Tarja Salmela |
| Irina Rabinovich | Tatiana Begotti |
| Irina Shestakova | Tatjana Fischer |
| Iris Almeida | Tatjana Pivac |
| Isabella Crespi | Thais Heinke |
| Ismi Rajiani | Theodoros Fouskas |
| Izabella Parowicz | Thomas Ekström |
| J. Iñaki De La Peña Esteban | Thulani Chauke |
| Jamal Alnsour | Till Schmäing |
| James Finckenauer | Tina Magazzini |
| James Simeon | Tin-Chun Lin |
| Janika Leoste | Ting Wang |
| Jarosław Działek | Todd G. Morrison |
| Jaume Roset | Tomasz Kośmider |
| Javier J. Amores | Tomasz Michalski |
| Javier Martínez-Vega | Tomasz Peciakowski |
| Javier Ramos | Tran Nguyen |
| Jean Paul | Tulips Wang |
| Jennifer Crittenden | Tze Wei Liew |
| Jennifer Darling-Aduana | Ulrike Lechner |
| Jesús Canto | Usula C. Thomas |
| Jesus Tejada | Vasileios Tsiantos |
| Jian-Hong Ye | Verónica Sevillano-Monje |
| Jin-Li Hu | Veronika Makarova |
| Jo Deakin | Vicente Gabarda Méndez |
| Joachim Gerich | Vicky Albert |
| Joan Solé-Pla | Víctor Manuel Pérez-Martínez |
| Joana Torres | Vidhi Agrawal |
| Joanna Hope | Vincent Cs Lee |
| Joanna Kossewska | Vindya Hewawasam |
| Joaquín Navajas Adán | Visitación Fernández |
| Joel Sagut | Wenxue Lin |
| Johanna Maldovan Bonelli | Will Rifkin |
| John Amson Capitman | Wojciech Gizicki |
| John Bartkowski | Xiaochuan Song |
| John Forkuor | Xiaoshan Gordy |
| John Zarobell | Xin-Chen Hong |
| Jolanta Mackowicz | Xinqiao Liu |
| Jon Reiersen | Yongfu Li |
| Jonathan Koppel | Youngsub Oh |
| José Manuel Otero-López | Yulia Valeeva |
| José Olais-Govea | Yung Yau |
| José Ramón Cardona | Zeina Ismail - Allouche |
| José Vázquez-Parra | Želimir Veinović |
| Josefina C. Santana | Zengzeng Fan |
| Josh Bramlett | Zenia Hellgren |
| Josko Mitrovic | Zenon Gajdzica |
| Juan Enrique Gonzálvez Vallés | Zhilu Sun |
| Juan R. Coca | Zhiyuan Guo |
| Judite Freitas | Zoé Hendrickson |
| Julia Dubrovskaya | Zoran Pavlović |