Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Viruses in 2025
9 February 2026
The editorial office of Viruses 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, Viruses received 7261 review reports from contributors across 87 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 Viruses.
| Aamir Lal | Gaël Mourembou | Nina Yancheva |
| Aarti Tripathi | Ganesh Yadagiri | Nishi Raj Sharma |
| Abdallah Y. Naser | Gary Brewer | Nompumelelo Prudence Mkhwanazi |
| Abiola Victor Adepoju | Gary S. Laco | Nuno Taveira |
| Abrar Hussain | George Belov | Nuno Verdasca |
| Adam Achs | George Gourzoulidis | Nuria Torner |
| Adham Al-Sagheer | Georgia Damoraki | Oleg Glotov |
| Adrian C. Paskey | Georgiana-Emmanuela Gilca-Blanariu | Oleksandr Kamyshnyi |
| Agathe M. G. Colmant | Georgios Iatrakis | Oleksiy Shevchenko |
| Agostino Ognibene | Gerard Goh | Olga Adriana Caliman-Sturdza |
| Ahmad Rushdi Shakri | Gianmarco Ferrara | Olga V. Morozova |
| Ahmed Kandeil | Gilberto Gonzalez-Parra | Oliver Schildgen |
| Ahmed Mostafa | Giorgio Gallinella | Olivier Escaffre |
| Ahmed R. Elbestawy | Giorgio Sonnino | Omid Rezahosseini |
| Ailam L. Lim | Giovanni Nigro | Ophir Freund |
| Ajit Dhananjay Jagtap | Gittan Gröndahl | Osvaldo López-Cuevas |
| Akhtar Ali | Giuseppe di Martino | Ottmar Herchenröder |
| Alan Barrett | Giuseppe Murdaca | Owais Khan |
| Albert Rizvanov | Gordana Wozniak Knopp | Oxana Andreevna Belova |
| Alberto Arnedo-Pena | Graham Belsham | Pablo Rafael Silveira Oliveira |
| Alberto Brandariz Nunez | Gregory Chinchar | Padmanabhan Mahadevan |
| Alberto Ospina Stella | Griff Parks | Pallavi Rai |
| Aldemir B. Oliveira-Filho | Grzegorz Węgrzyn | Pamela Martinez-Orellana |
| Aldo Venuti | Guillermo Raúl Pratta | Paola Storici |
| Alejandro Vallejo | Gunaraj Dhungana | Patrick E. Obermeier |
| Aleksandar Cvetkovikj | Gustavo Helguera | Patrizia Pignatti |
| Aleksander Galas | Guy Lemay | Patrizia Russo |
| Aleksandr N. Ignatov | Haider Al-Hello | Paul Azzinaro |
| Ales Chrdle | Hala M. Zaher | Paul Hyman |
| Alessandra Pavan Lamarca | Hana Dobrovolny | Pawel Zmora |
| Alessandro Sinigaglia | Hani Boshra | Pedro Luis Ramos-González |
| Alexander E. Berezin | Hanna Harant | Pedro Plans-Rubió |
| Alexander Egorov | Hansjörg Lehnherr | Peng Bo |
| Alexander Lai | Harald Wodrich | Pengcheng Li |
| Alexander Otahal | Heinzpeter Schwermer | Pengfei Ding |
| Alexander Tarr | Hesham Nawar | Peter Aniwe Dele |
| Alexei Borisovich Chukhlovin | Hideto Fukushi | Peter Monk |
| Alexey Andreychev | Hien V. Nguyen | Peter V. Dubovskii |
| Alexey Sarapultsev | Himanshu Garg | Peter V. Evseev |
| Alexi Kiss | Holger Loessner | Petr Komínek |
| Alfredo Téllez Valencia | Hongyan Shi | Petya Koycheva Hristova |
| Alicia Ponte-Sucre | Hosoon Choi | Philip E. Pellett |
| Alina Cernasev | Hua-Ji Qiu | Philip Serwer |
| Aline Daniele Tassi | Huanyu Wang | Phillip Tai |
| Alisa Pautova | Huanzhou Xu | Piergiorgio Roberto |
| Alla Mironenko | Hugo Ramírez Álvarez | Pinelopi Samara |
| Alphonsus Ugwu | Hui-Qi Qu | Ping Zhang |
| Amanda Calvert | Hye-Mi Lee | Pir Tariq Shah |
| Amanda Lelia Radulescu | Hyunjin Shin | Piyush Baindara |
| Amarshi Mukherjee | Hyun-Woo Park | Po-Huang Liang |
| Amit K. Maiti | Igor Babkin | Ponraj Prabakaran |
| Amy Macneill | Igor Oscorbin | Pradeep D. Uchil |
| Amy Papaneri | Ijaz Gul | Prasanna Bhat |
| Ana Margarida Henriques | Iman Tavassoly | Prasanth Manohar |
| Ana Terzian | Inmaculada Garcia-Heredia | Premkumar Lakshmanane |
| Ana Tomić | Inna Solyanikova | Primrose Freestone |
| Anan Jongkaewwattana | Inna Tulaeva | Qibin Geng |
| Anca Stana | Iryna Halabitska | Qingyang Liu |
| André Araújo Pinto | Isabel Muñoz-Barroso | Qiuhong Wang |
| André Schreiber | Ismaila Shittu | Rachy Abraham |
| Andrea Marsella | Iva Skrinjar | Raed Alkowni |
| Andrei A. Deviatkin | Ivan Kulakov | Rahul Mohan Singh |
| Andrei Halanay | Ivan Mikhailovich Pchelin | Rai Campos Silva |
| Andrei Viktorovich Chaplin | Ivan S. Kholodilov | Rajesh Durairaj |
| Andrew Henderson | Ivan Sabol | Rajesh Thippeshappa |
| Andrew Jin | Ivanildo Sousa | Rajneesh Kumar |
| Andrey Grigoriev | Iwao Kukimoto | Rajnikant Sharma |
| Andrey Komissarov | J. Stephen Lodmell | Rakesh Srivastava |
| Andrey Markov | Jack Stapleton | Ramón A. González |
| Andrey Shadrin | Jacques Izopet | Ramona Gabriela Ursu |
| Andreza Soriano Figueiredo | Jae Kyu Ryu | Randi Hagerman |
| Andrzej Jarynowski | James Emmanuel San | Raphael Tze Chuen Lee |
| Andy Haegeman | James Hunter | Ravendra P. Chauhan |
| Angel Josabad Alonso-Castro | Jan Rychtar | Raymond Nims |
| Angela Pearson | Jan Weber | Reetesh Kumar |
| Angela Rocchi | Jane Shen-Gunther | Regiane Maria Tironi de Menezes |
| Anindya Sekhar Bose | Janine Sophie Sophie Kemming | Renat Adelshin |
| Anirban Das | Jarin Taslem Mourosi | Richard Aj Williams |
| Anirban Roy | Jason Mackenzie | Rita Meganck |
| Anita De Rossi | Javier Murciano-Calles | Ritthideach Yorsaeng |
| Ann Elizabeth Tollefson | Jawhar Gharbi | Robert John Paxton |
| Anna Bellizzi | Jean Pierre González-Gómez | Roberta Bona |
| Anna Carolina Toledo Da Cunha Pereira | Jelena Prpić | Roberto Giovanni Carbone |
| Anna De Filippis | Jesse H. Arbuckle | Roderick Gagne |
| Anna Fialová | Jhon Carlos Castaño-Osorio | Rodrigo Valenzuela |
| Anna Gladkikh | Jian Li | Roger Sm Chong |
| Anna Jackova | Jianfei Lu | Romain Paillot |
| Anna Kabłak-Ziembicka | Jianhua Li | Rosa Del Angel |
| Anna Majer | Jian-Wei Shao | Rosa Maria Tubaki |
| Anna Salvaggiulo | Jianzhu Liu | Ruicheng Yang |
| Anna Sawczyn-Domańska | Jiao Xu | Ruy Diego Chacon Villanueva |
| Anna Sergeevna Dolgova | Jieshi Yu | Saadullah Khattak |
| Anna Szczerba-Turek | Jih-Jin Tsai | Sally Molloy |
| Anne-Laure Favier | Jing Wang | Salvatore Giovanni De Simone |
| Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye | Jinyang Zhang | Sameer Tiwari |
| Antoinette Van Der Kuyl | Jiří Beran | Sameh Abd El-Ghany |
| Anton Gerilovych | Jiří Hejnar | Sanchari Chatterjee |
| Antonette Bennett | Jisheng Liu | Sandrama Nadan |
| Antonieta Guerrero-Plata | Joanna Małaczewska | Santi M. Mandal |
| Antônio C. da Costa | João Paulo Pereira de Almeida | Santiago Garcia-Vallve |
| António Caleiro | John David Klena | Sarah Caddy |
| Antonio Mas | John Harvey Santos | Sascha Trapp |
| Antonio Mastroianni | John Matsoukas | Satya Prakash Singh |
| Antonio Rosa de Sousa Neto | Jonathan Griffiths | Season Wong |
| Antonio Toniolo | Jose A. Usme-Ciro | Sébastien Lhomme |
| Anuradha Roy | Jose Angel Regla Nava | Selina Pasquero |
| Arman Issimov | José C. J. M. D. S. Menezes | Selwyn Arlington Headley |
| Armando Arias | José Leopoldo Aguilar-Faisal | Sergei Chirkov |
| Arthur Gruber | Jose Luis Anaya Lopez | Sergei Grishin |
| Arunachalam Muthuraman | José Manuel Verdes | Sergei Raev |
| Arunraj Mekhemadhom Rajendrakumar | José Rafael de Almeida | Sergey E. Sedykh |
| Balcha Masresha | José Ramón Blanco Ramos | Sergey Tkachev |
| Baptiste Demey | Joseph Che-Yen Wang | Seth Pincus |
| Barbara Ridolfi | Joseph Michael Ochieng Oduor | Sezer Okay |
| Bart G.J. Knols | Juan Bárcena | Shafiqul Chowdhury |
| Beatriz Pacheco | Juan Carlos Hurtado Negreiros | Shahjahon Begmatov |
| Ben Z. Katz | Juan Carlos Muñoz-Escalante | Shanhui Ren |
| Benediktus Yohan Arman | Juan Hernandez-Garcia | Sharon Clouthier |
| Benjamin Cull | Judith Olejnik | Sheng-Qun Deng |
| Benjamin Krishna | Julian Naipauer | Sherif T.S. Hassan |
| Bert Ely | Julie Fox | Shih-Min Wang |
| Bikash Ranjan Sahoo | Jun Luo (Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences) | Shinuo Cao |
| Biswajit Das | Jun Luo (South China Agricultural University) | Shuaiyao Lu |
| Bo Wang | Jun Peng | Shuliang Chen |
| Bolin Hang | Jun-Gyu Park | Shuyue Zhan |
| Boyan Zhou | Kacper Toczylowski | Shyam Kokkattunivarthil Uthaman |
| Brad S. Pickering | Kai Sen Tan | Sidhartha Deshmukh |
| Bradley William Michael Cook | Kai Song | Silvere D. Zaongo |
| Branka Horvat | Kaichuang Shi | Silvia Pavone |
| Bruno Hernaez | Kalina Avgust Shishkova | Silvina Elena Gutiérrez |
| Bruno Pozzetto | Kang Ning | Sirin Theerawatanasirikul |
| Camelia Sultana | Karen Bohmwald | Sisko Tauriainen |
| Cao Chen | Karen Brajão de Oliveira | Sohrab Ahmadivand |
| Carla Pagliari | Karen Kyuregyan | Somnath Mondal |
| Carlo Brogna | Karim Rafie | Songbai Yang |
| Carlo Federico Perno | Katarzyna Dolata | Songzhe Fu |
| Carlos Duarte | Katarzyna Kosznik-Kwaśnicka | Sonia M. Cheetham |
| Carlos Javier Panei | Katarzyna Mazur-Melewska | Sonia Zúñiga |
| Carlos Sandoval-Jaime | Katarzyna Sikorska | Soowon Kang |
| Carmen Mannella | Katharina Luise Lohmann | Sophia S. Borisevich |
| Carol Nash | Kayode Oshinubi | Soumendu Chakravarti |
| Catarina Gregório Martins | Kenta Teruya | Steeve Boulant |
| Caterina Elisabetta Rizzo | Keshan Zhang | Stefan Chiriac |
| Catherine Troisi | Kiran Avula | Stefano Petrini |
| Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu | Kirill Sharshov | Steven Baker |
| Chang Liu | Konstantin G. Kousoulas | Steven C. Holland |
| Changjun Guo | Konstantin V. Moiseenko | Stjepan Krčmar |
| Changlong Liu | Krishna Kumar Ganta | Stoyanka Atanasova Nikolova |
| Chao Shan | Ksenia Tuchynskaya | Styliani Sarrou |
| Charalampos D. Moschopoulos | Kunihiko Umekita | Sujit Mohanty |
| Charlene Ranadheera | Kunihisa Miwa | Sumit Jangra |
| Charlotte H. Edinboro | Kwok-Hung Chan | Sundaresh Shankar |
| Cheng Yang | Laith Khalil Tawfeeq Al-Ani | Susan Cork |
| Chengbo Chen | Laura Hughes | Susan Jean Baigent |
| Chengwu Zou | Laura K. Mcmullan | Susan Michelle Williams |
| Chihai Ji | Layla Pagnucco | Sushma Mudigunda |
| Ching-Ho Wang | Leonard Ionut Atanase | Susumu Suzuki |
| Chi-Young Wang | Leonid N. Valentovich | Suthat Chottanapund |
| Christoph Weigel | Lilia Matei | Sveinung Wergeland Sorbye |
| Christophe Vanpouille | Linda J. Saif | Svetlana V. Guryanova |
| Christopher U.T. Hellen | Ling Jin | Szederjesi Janos |
| Chuanfu Dong | Ling-Chun Lin | Szu-Chieh Chen |
| Cillian F. de Gascun | Linqing Zhao | Taha Y. Taha |
| Claire Birkenheuer | Lionel Berthoux | Tahir Rizvi |
| Claire James | Lisa Kathleen Ryan | Taís Fukuta Cruz |
| Claude Sabeta | Long Sun | Takashi Onodera |
| Claudia Cerracchio | Loredana Sabina Cornelia Manolescu | Takayuki Nitta |
| Claudia Fernandez-Alarcon | Lorenzo Malatino | Takeshi Morita |
| Claudia Filomatori | Lorenzo Mari | Tanel Punga |
| Claudia Soledad Sepúlveda | Lubomira Nikolaeva-Glomb | Tao Wang |
| Claudio Galli | Luis Adrián de Jesús González | Tarek M. Itani |
| Clemente Mosso-González | Luis Menéndez-Arias | Tatiana V. Rakitina |
| Clinton Jones | Luisa Rubino | Tatsunori Nakano |
| Constantin Cerbu | Łukasz Świątek | Terence Ndonyi Bukong |
| Consuelo Almazan | Lyudmila Bel'Skaya | Tesfaye Gelanew |
| Cristina Ceriani | Mahamud Ur Rashid | Thamer Hamdan |
| Cristina Galvan | Mai M. El-Daly | Theodouli Stergiopoulou |
| Curtis Brandt | Mai Mostafa | Theresa Whiteside |
| Daiji Endoh | Małgorzata Gieryńska | Thiago Cerqueira-Silva |
| Daiki Kanbayashi | Malik Aydin | Tim Lawrence Sit |
| Dana Štveráková | Manish Kumar | Tim Walker |
| Daniel Elbirt | Manuel De la Sen | Timo Vesikari |
| Daniel Marc | Marc Fuchs | Timothy Byaruhanga |
| Daniel Noyola | Marc Vasse | Tomassone Diego |
| Daniel Sepúlveda-Crespo | Marcela Alicia Juliarena | Tomasz Laskus |
| Daniela Piţigoi | Marcello Trizzino | Tommaso Bellini |
| Danijela Miljanovic | Marcelo R. S. Briones | Trevor Williams |
| Dapeng Wang | Márcia Furlan Nogueira | Tushar Saha |
| Daria Danilenko | Marco Ciotti | Uddhav Timilsina |
| Darko Jevremovic | Maria Alessandra De Marco | Umme Laila Urmi |
| David J. Garfinkel | Maria Angélica Ramos Silva | Uri Mbonye |
| Dawit Assefa Arimide | Maria Antonia De Francesco | Valeriya R Samygina |
| Deborah Finlaison | Maria Eugenia Gonzalez | Vance Nielsen |
| De-Jian Liu | Maria Gabriela Echeverría | Vandana Saxena |
| Denis Jacob Machado | Maria Jose Garcia-Iglesias | Vanessa V. Sarathy |
| Denis Kolbasov | Maria Khrenova | Venkatraman Siddharthan |
| Dereje Haile Buko | Maria Piedad Ussetti Gil | Vera A. Alferova |
| Derek Spielman | Maria Romanelli | Veronica Soloveva |
| Dianjun Cao | Mária Takács | Victor Manuel Petrone-Garcia |
| Diego Ripamonti | Marielena Vogel Saivish | Vikash Kumar Mishra |
| Diego Sangiorgi | Marina Holyavka | Vincenza Gragnaniello |
| Dimitra Toubanaki | Marina Ibragimova | Vincenzo Cuteri |
| Dimitrije Glisic | Marina L. Meli | Vinicius Silva Castro |
| Dimitrios Skliros | Marisa Granato | Virginia Lotti |
| Dimitris Tsakogiannis | Mark Krystal | Virginia Mattioda |
| Dina Mofed | Marko Jankovic | Vishwanatha R.A.P. Reddy |
| Dmitriy Sotnikov | Martha Brown | Vivian O'Donnell |
| Dmitry Selishchev | Martina Torricelli | Vladimir George Dedkov |
| Dmitry Shcherbakov | Mary-Louise Penrith | Volker Nickeleit |
| Domenico Galante | Marzena Rola-Łuszczak | Vunjia Tiong |
| Dominic Paquin Proulx | Masaaki Miyazawa | Waleed Seif Eldin Mohamed |
| Dominik Harms | Masahiro Niikura | Walter Doerfler |
| Domonkos Sváb | Matias Castells | Wangxue Chen |
| Dongwei Kang | Mats Bertil Eriksson | Waqas Ahmad |
| Dong-Yan Jin | Mats Eriksson | Wen Deng |
| Du-Ping Zheng | Matteo Negroni | Wenchao Sun |
| Eduardo Barbieri | Matteo Nioi | Wenqiao He |
| Edward B. Stephens | Matteo Riccò | Wenyan Zhang |
| Efrem Alessandro Foglia | Matthias Schweizer | William Switzer |
| Egils Ginters | Mauricio Alberto Realpe-Quintero | Willy M. Bogers |
| Eiji Matsuura | Maxim Khasnatinov | Won Kyong Cho (Kangwon National University) |
| Ekaterina Dinastiia | Mengmeng Zhao | Won-Kyung Cho (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine) |
| Ekaterina Evtushenko | Michael A. Mandell | Wu Zhong |
| Elena Rukavtsova | Michael Benedik | Xiangping Yin |
| Eleonora Cimini | Michael Chiorazzi | Xiao Wang |
| Elisabetta Suffredini | Michał Brzdęk | Xiaohui Ju |
| Elizabeth Fowler | Michelle A. Ozbun | Xiaoyong Chen |
| Emilia Hadziyannis | Miguel Matos | Xinnuo Lei |
| Emmanouil Ioannis Kapetanakis | Miguel Moreno-Garcia | Xueli Zheng |
| Emmanouil Magiorkinis | Miguel Souza Andrade | Yao Luo |
| Emmanuel Drouet | Mihalj Poŝa | Yasser E. Ibrahim |
| Erica Diani | Mikael Skurnik | Yenddy N. Carrero |
| Erika Garner-Spitzer | Mikhail Kolev | Yijun Mei |
| Esther Ngan | Mikhail S. Drenichev | Yin Li |
| Eugene V. Radchenko | Mina Hur | Ying Wang |
| Eugene V. Ryabov | Ming Zheng | Yinxing Zhu |
| Eun-Sil Park | Mingfu Tian | Yoichi Furuya |
| Eva Varallyay | Minji Kim | Yong Zhang |
| Evgenii M. Shcherban’ | Mircea Coroian | Yong-Hua Hu |
| Ewa Jończyk-Matysiak | Mohamed El-Tholoth | Yongle Yang |
| F. C. Thomas Allnutt | Mohamed Faisal | Yongming Sang |
| Fabian Rojas-Larios | Mohammed Gamal | Yoshiaki Yura |
| Fan Zhu | Mohammed Imam | Yoshikazu Tanaka |
| Fanzhi Kong | Mohammed Yosri | Yu Gao |
| Faraat Ali | Mojtaba Mohammadi | Yue Chen |
| Farshad Rakhshandehroo | Mudan Zhang | Yujia Li |
| Fatma Eldemery | Muhammad Junaid | Yulia Aleshina |
| Faustus Akankperiwen Azerigyik | Muhammad N. Mahmood | Yunliang Zhang |
| Fedor Grigoriev | Muhammad Shoaib | Yuqiang Xiang |
| Fedor Korennoy | Münir Aktaş | Yuriko Tomita |
| Felipe Masiero Salvarani | Murat Koklu | Yuriy L. Orlov |
| Fernanda Marcicano Burlandy | Naazneen Moolla | Yuriy Orlov |
| Fidèle Tiendrebeogo | Naitong Yu | Yuta Hikichi |
| Filipe Abreu | Narcisa Muresu | Yutang Li |
| Filippos Gerasimos Filippatos | Natalia Cheshenko | Zagipa Sapakhova |
| Filomena Iannuzzi | Natalia Golender | Ze-Cai Zhang |
| Flora de Conto | Natalia Lomakina | Zehuan Liao |
| Florencia Cancela | Natalia Smirnova | Zhaohua Zhong |
| Fouad S. El-Mayet | Nattan Stalin | Zhen Li |
| Francesco Mira | Neven Papić | Zheng Yuan |
| Francisco José Nunes Antunes | Nguyêt Thanh Ha-Duong | Zhengwei Huang |
| François Ferron | Nicola Luigi Bragazzi | Zhenlu Zhang |
| François-Loïc Cosset | Nicola Magnavita | Zhihua Liu |
| Franz-Georg Hanisch | Nicolas Dufour | Zhijun Yu |
| Fu-Chun Hsueh | Nikolai Nikitin | Zhonghua Li |
| Gabriel Augusto Pires de Souza | Nikolaos Siafakas | Ziying Yan |
| Gabriel Gonzalez | Nilakshi Barua | Zuberwasim Sayyad |
| Gabriela Goujgoulova | Nina Mendez-Dominguez | |
| Gabriele Vaccari | Nina Wolfrum |