11 February 2026
Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Hygiene in 2025
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The editorial office of Hygiene 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, Hygiene received 353 review reports from contributors across 56 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 Hygiene.
| A. Enrique Acosta Gio | Marios Spanakis |
| Abiola Victor Adepoju | Marko Matijević |
| Adharsh Rajasekar | Mohamed Ahmed Ali |
| Ahmed E. Taha | Monica Consolandi |
| Albert Nienhaus | Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan |
| Alejandro Bugarin | Negin Yekkalam |
| Alexander Machado Cardoso | Nicola Magnavita |
| Alexandre Baudet | Osvaldo López-Cuevas |
| Amen Ahmed Bawazir | Patrick Martin |
| Andrea Ianni | Pedro Pereira |
| Ankita Saha | Penelope Ioannidou |
| Annmarie Walton | Per Nordin |
| Antonio Laganà | Prescilla Emy Nagao |
| Ayaz Ahmed | Rania M. S. El-Malt |
| Berkant Sezer | Razique Anwer |
| Cristie Luis Kugelmeier | Reinhard Chun Wang Chau |
| Daniela Anistoroaei | Ricardo Silva |
| Dritan Topi | Robu Alina |
| Edward Shaw | Rocío Trinidad Velázquez-Cayón |
| Ekaterina Diachkova | Ruy Diego Chacon Villanueva |
| Eqram Rahman | Sagar Salave |
| Fanglei Zou | Sandra Maria Campinos Rodrigues |
| Francesco Massoni | Scott L. Tomar |
| Frederico Bruzzi De Carvalho | Seon-Rye Kim |
| Hanaa Youssef Ahmed | Sergei Grishin |
| Ivana Regecová | Shamimul Hasan |
| Jan Bruthans | Shazina Saeed |
| Jarmila Pekarcikova | Sotirios Ekonomou |
| Jasmine Kataria | Supaprawat Siripipatthanakul |
| Jayakanthan Kabeerdoss | Thomas Eugen A. H. Kuepper |
| Jorge De Andrés-Sánchez | Trond Løvdal |
| Junaid Ahmad | Varvara Giuseppe |
| Karolina Wiktoria Stojowska-Swędrzyńska | Venkanna Bhanothu |
| Kenneth Mcmilllin | Vinícius Silva Belo |
| Laura Jovell | Walid Fakhouri |
| Livia Ionela Bobu | Walter Dukić |
| Lourens Outbreak Protocol Bacillus Heres | Wojciech Kierat |
| Luis Octavio Sanchez-Vargas | Xiaoqi Zhang |
| Marcela Arenas-González | Yiannis Kourkoutas |
| Maria Totan | Ylenia Russotto |