Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Diversity in 2025
12 February 2026
The editorial office of Diversity 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, Diversity received 3748 review reports from contributors across 83 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 Diversity.
| Abdulwakeel Ajao | George Mustoe | Natalya Ivanova |
| Abhilash Dutta Roy | Ghadir El-Chaghaby | Nazar Shapoval |
| Adán Guillermo Jordán-Garza | Gianniantonio Domina | Neculaí Patriche |
| Adele Cocozza di Montanara | Giurginca Andrei | Nerivania Nunes Godeiro |
| Adharsh Rajasekar | Gleb Zaitsev | Nevenka Ćelepirović |
| Aelton Biasi Giroldo | Gleison R. Desiderio | Nicholas Philip Jones |
| Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Krzebietke | Gonzalo Ortiz de Elguea-Culebras | Nikita Aleksandrovich Martynenko |
| Agustin Garese | Griet An Erica Cuyckens | Nikita Chernetsov |
| Ahmet Cagdas Seckin | Grzegorz Kopij | Nikita Zelenkov |
| Aida A. Abd El-Wahed | Guang Wu | Nikola Šušić |
| Ain Raal | Guillermo Horta-Puga | Nikolay Usov |
| Alan Steinman | Guo-Hua Ding | Nina Turmukhametova |
| Alejandra De Elías-Escribano | Guo-Jie Li | Nina V. Pakharkova |
| Aleksandar Ćetković | Haihua Wang | Nora E. Anghelescu |
| Aleksandr N. Ignatov | Halina Kucharczyk | Oleg Anenkhonov |
| Aleksey Troitsky | Hamisai Hamandawana | Olexander Zhukov |
| Alexander E. Balakirev | Haonan Zhang | Olga Jovanovic Glavas |
| Alexander Faizulin | Harshil Patel | Olga Kunah |
| Alexander J. Werth | Hector Valenzuela | Olga Panfilova |
| Alexander Kudryavtsev | Heyi Wei | Oswaldo Jadán |
| Alexander Kuprin | Hiroshi Sato | Oswaldo Maillard |
| Alexander Machado Cardoso | Hong-Zhang Zhou | Oxana Zhigileva |
| Alexander Netrusov | Hu Li | Pablo Homet Gutierrez |
| Alexander V. Babosha | Hualong Hong | Panos Vassilis Petrakis |
| Alexandr Bakaev | Hui-Ting Wu | Parviz Tavakoli-Kolour |
| Alexandra Savuca | Ian Butler | Patricio De Los Rios-Escalante |
| Alexandra Staikou | Ian Charles Colquhoun | Patrick Rioual |
| Alexey A. Maximov | Iara Rocchetta | Paul Rose |
| Alexey Andreychev | Ilias Strachinis | Paulo Borges |
| Alexey Panov | Ilie Racotta | Paulo Emilio Lovato |
| Alexsandra Fernandes Pereira | Ines Kovačić | Paulo Victor Luiz Gomes da Costa Pereira |
| Allen T. Rutberg | Ioan Tausan | Peizhen Ma |
| Alma Rodriguez-Troncoso | Ioannis Bazos | Pepy Bareka |
| Álvaro Garitano-Zavala | Irina Viktorovna Sukhovskaya | Peter A. Bowler |
| Ana Belén Fernández Salegui | Ivan Rehák | Petr Strelkov |
| Ana Carvalho | Ivan S. Petrushin | Photini V. Mylona |
| Ana Lilia Alzate Marin | Ivana Bjedov | Polina Drozdova |
| Ana Pérez-Cembranos | Ivana Budinski | Pornphimon Meesakul |
| Anastasios Varkoulis | Ivana Trbojević | Qingqing Sun |
| Anatoliy Mykolayovych Tryhuba | Ivaylo Danchev Angelov | Rácz István András |
| Anca Toiu | J. Emilio Sanchez-Moyano | Radoslava Ivanova Bekova |
| André Bueno Gama | J. Stephen C. Smith | Radu E. Sestras |
| Andrea Cristina Staicu | Jackson Audley | Ramona Ștef |
| Andrea Guerrero | Jaime Bustos-Martinez | Ratoi Bogdan Gabriel |
| Andreas Hemp | Jair Putzke | Razieh Rafieenia |
| Andrei A. Legalov | Jairo José Zocche | Regina Karousou |
| Andrei Granovitcj | Jakub Skorupski | Renata Jarosz |
| Andrei Nikolaevich Frolov | James C. Bednarz | Richard Seigel |
| Andrés Muñoz-Pedreros | James Frederick Hare | Rishikesh Singh |
| Andrey Mazur | James Lucas da Costa Lima | Rita Leal Paixão |
| Andrey Sinjushin | Jamshid Eslamdoust | Robert Ancuceanu |
| Andrey Yurkov | Jan Kučera | Robert Machowski |
| Andriy Novikov | Jaqueline Dias-Pereira | Robert Philipp Wagensommer |
| Andrzej Kapusta | Jasmina Ludoški | Roberto Benocci |
| Anely Nedelcheva | Jasper Knight | Roberto Bizzarri |
| Angelo Carotenuto | Javier Blasco Aróstegui | Roberto J. Guerrero |
| Anita Galir | Javier Lobon-Rovira | Rolf Schlagloth |
| Anna Źróbek | Jean-Luc Jung | Roman Alekseevich Nazarov |
| Anoop Alex | Jeanne Fair | Roman Croitor |
| Antje H. L. Voelker | Jeffrey Schmid | Romi Burks |
| Antonio Flores-Moya | Jelena Tomović | Rosella Spina |
| Antonio Gelsomino | Jesús Alvarado-Ortega | Runan Zhao |
| Antonio Pica | Jesús Domínguez | Sahar Yaakoub |
| António Portugal | Jialin Li | Said Moukrim |
| Anwar Eziz | Jian Yang | Salima Machkour-M'Rabet |
| Astrid Jankielsohn | Jianli Xiong | Salman Mirzaee |
| Avinash Chandel | Jianwei Guo | Sami Mili |
| Balaji Prasath Barathan | Jingle Jiang | Sandra Mcinnes |
| Baojun Tang | Jinlin Liu | Sanjeev Kumar Dhungana |
| Barbara Radulovic | Jinyang Zheng | Sanjeev Wasti |
| Bartosz Jan Płachno | Joana Prata | Sarah Caronni |
| Beatriz Morales-Nin | João Tavares Calixto Júnior | Sarahy Contreras-Martínez |
| Béla Tóthmérész | Job Teixeira de Oliveira | Saraj Bahadur |
| Bérenger Colsoul | John B. Pascarella | Saray Gutiérrez-Gordillo |
| Bert Hoeksema | Jordi Viñas | Sarra Farjallah Amor |
| Bharat Manna | Jorge Oscar Chiapella | Sebastianus Van Balen |
| Bingzhong Yang | Jose Iannacone | Selfa Jesús |
| Bojin Bojinov | José Jailson Lima Bezerra | Sergei E. Tshernyshev |
| Boris L. Kozlovsky | José Lavres | Sergey N. Lysenkov |
| Boyko B. Georgiev | José M. García Del Barrio | Sergey Titov |
| Božena Šerá | Jose M. Mora | Sergio Cappucci |
| Brigid Troan | Jose María Del Arco | Sérgio P. Ávila |
| C. Donovan Bailey | José Templado | Seung Youn Lee |
| Çağdan Uyar | Juan B. Morales-Malacara | Shahjahon Begmatov |
| Carlos Bustamante | Julio A. Lemos-Espinal | Shaobin Li |
| Carlos Cordero | Jun Isoe | Shohei Hayashi |
| Carlos E. Sarmiento | Jun Zhang | Silvia Maribel Contreras-Ramos |
| Carlos Henrique Marchiori | Jundong Tian | Silvina Larran |
| Carlos L. López | Kaloyan Ivanov | Simon Alina |
| Carlos Lara | Kang-Rae Kim | Simone Sabatelli |
| Carol J. Pierce Colfer | Katarina Mladenovic | Singaraju Sri Subrahmanya Sarma |
| Catterina Sobenes | Katarzyna Pawęska | Sinisa Ozimec |
| Chae-Woo Ma | Kathe Rose Jensen | Siniša Škondrić |
| Changeon Park | Kenji Saitoh | Slađana Popović |
| Cheng Li | Khaled Mohamed El-Dakhly | Sławomir Mitrus |
| Cheng Zhang | Kirk Fitzhugh | Slobodan Davidović |
| Chenggong Liu | Klaus H. Hoffmann | Sofia Priyadarsani Das |
| Cheng-He Sun | Kleyton Magno Cantalice | Srinivasan Sathiyaraj |
| Chornghorng Lin | Konrad Fiedler | Stefania D'Angelo |
| Christine E. Campbell | Konrad Kalarus | Stefano Martellos |
| Christopher Torres | Konstantin B. Gongalsky | Steven E. Jasinski |
| Ciprian Stroia | Konstantinos Asterios Liolios | Susan Claire Wilson |
| Clarissa Marcelle Naidoo | Krisztián Frank | Svante Martinsson |
| Claudia Bita-Nicolae | Krzysztof Tomczuk | Svetlana Milijasevic-Marcic |
| Claudio Barbeito | Ladislav Čepelka | Syed Haris Omar |
| Claudio Delrieux | Laima Balčiauskienė | Szilárd Szentes |
| Concepción Obon | Larry Powell | Tadeusz Malewski |
| Cornelio A. Bota-Sierra | Laxman Khanal | Tae-Sung Kwon |
| Cristian Alberto Espinosa-Rodríguez | Leandrö Marajó | Tamara Avtaeva |
| Cristian Canales-Aguirre | Leon George Higley | Tamara Zemskaya |
| Cristian Moisés Galván Villa | Leonardo Osvaldo Alvarado-Cárdenas | Tanweer Kumar |
| Cristian Schleich | Leonardo Tunesi | Teodora Marius Teofilova |
| Danial Nayeri | Leopoldo de Simone | Terry Eugene Whitledge |
| Daria Sergeevna Balycheva | Lindsey Swierk | Thiago Bernardi Vieira |
| Dariusz Kamiński | Lizbeth Sayavedra | Tine Grebenc |
| David Osca | Lori K. Sheeran | Tiziana Maria Sirangelo |
| David W. Inouye | Louis Shing Him Lee | Tomoyuki Nakano |
| Debora Coelho-Silva | Lowell Howard Suring | Toshko Ljubomirov |
| Débora Tomazi Pereira | Luambo Jeffrey Ramarumo | Tumen Chimitdorzhiev |
| Derek Spielman | Lucas Barbosa Cortinhas | Tzu-Ruei Yang |
| Diego Pujoni | Lucas Ramos Costa Lima | Ugur Başaran |
| Diego Simeone | Luciana Machado Rangel | Ulrike Obertegger |
| Dimitar Atanasov Demerdzhiev | Luigi Bundone | Ulyana S. Zubairova |
| Dimitrije Radišić | Luis Eduardo Servín-Garcidueñas | Ulyses Francisco Jose Pardiñas |
| Dimitris Klaoudatos | Luis Fernando Favaro | Ümüt Halik |
| Diogo Parrinha | Luis Llaneza | Valentín Pérez-Mellado |
| Dmitry Lajus | Luis M. Bautista-Sopelana | Valentyna Meshkova |
| Dmitry Ruban | Luís Pascoal da Silva | Vasile Vintu |
| Donald James Colgan | Luisa Maria Sarmento Soares | Vasilios Liordos |
| Douglas Fenner | Mahfouz Abd-Elgawad | Vera Antonova |
| Dragana Bozic | Maja Radomir Lazarevic | Veronika Vladimirovna Vodopianova |
| Dragana Milicic | Manuel Ballesteros Vázquez | Vicente Rozas |
| Dragos Postolache | Manuel Elias-Gutierrez | Victor Alekseev |
| E. N. Melekhina | Marc Terradas-Fernández | Victor Javier Colino-Rabanal |
| Edit Farkas | Marcela Pagano | Victor Surugiu |
| Edo D'Agaro | Marcela Rodriguero | Viktor Husak |
| Edward Espinoza | Marcela S. Tonello | Viktor V. Brygadyrenko |
| Efim D. Pavlov | Marcelo Eduardo Lagos | Vincent Anthony Bielinski |
| Egor Zadereev | Marcelo Enrique Oliva | Vivian C. Trevine |
| Ekateina Kozuharova | Marcelo Francisco Pompelli | Vladimir Gokhman |
| Ekaterina G. Sorokovikova | Marcus Alberto Nadruz Coelho | Vladimir Ivanovich Cherniavskih |
| Ekaterina Leonidovna Vodeneeva | Marek Roman Lipinski | Vladimir Kalinin |
| Ekaterina Vladimirovna Zakharova | Margarita Fernandez-Tejedor | Vladimir Razlutskij |
| Elena Erofeeva | Maria Cristina Morais | Vladimir Silkin |
| Elena Krivina | María José Luciáñez | Vyacheslav Dushenkov |
| Elena S. Mekhova | Maria Teresa Rebelo | Vyacheslav Zhikharev |
| Elena Tarakhovskaya | Maria V. Orlova | Wafae Squalli |
| Eleonora Clò | Maria Victorovna Bashenkhaeva | Wajid Rashid |
| Elisabetta Gargani | Marianella Talevi | Wardsson Lustrino Borges Borges |
| Eloy Conde Barajas | Marina Koether | Witold Grzywiński |
| Emil Gjurčević | Marina V. Protopopova | Wlodzimierz Meissner |
| Emiliya Vacheva | Mark Benecke | Won Kyong Cho |
| Emoke Dalma Kovacs | Mark Henderson | Xiali Guo |
| Enrico Ruiz | Marsel R. Kabilov | Xiao Chen |
| Enrico Vito Perrino | Marta Nogueira | Xiao Xinqing |
| Enrique Rico-García | Marthe Kiley-Worthington | Xiaolong Hu |
| Erhan Mutlu | Martin Streinzer | Xiaoyong Chen |
| Eric Stienen | Marysol Aceituno-Medina | Xiaoyong Zhang |
| Erola Fenollosa | Melissa Vogt | Xin Yu Wang |
| Eugene A. Silow | Melita Mihaljević | Xin Zhang |
| Eugene Morozov | Michael J. Ghedotti | Xochitl Guadalupe Vital |
| Eugenio Alberto Aragón-Noriega | Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco | Yahui Zhao |
| Eva Barreno | Michelle Cocks | Yakup Kaska |
| Evgenija Dmitrieva | Mihaela Ilieva | Yanka Vidinova |
| Evgeny A. Davydov | Mike B. Mostovski | Yann Hénaut |
| Evgeny Genelt-Yanovskiy | Milica Aćimović | Yan-Xiang Lin |
| Fabio A. Labra | Milica Fotiric Aksic | Yao Xiong |
| Fabrizio Buldrini | Milica Jaćimović | Yaseen Khan |
| Fajun Chen | Miloš Ilić | Yavar Vafaee |
| Federico Escobar | Minodora Manu | Yiannis G. Zevgolis |
| Felipe Polivanov Ottoni | Mir Muhammad Nizamani | Yi-Che Shih |
| Feng Xu | Mireya Burgos-Hernández | Yu Gao |
| Ferenc Orosz | Mohamed Ghobara | Yuelin Li |
| Fernanda Bered | Mohamed Owis Badry | Yujing Liu |
| Folega Fousseni | Mohammad Javad Pourmoghaddam | Yulia I. Gubelit |
| Franc Janžekovič | Monica Angela Neblea | Yuri Jorge Peña-Ramirez |
| Francesco M. Angelici | Muhammad Siraj | Željko Savković |
| Francisca Zepeda-Paulo | Muhammad Umair Hassan | Zhenhua Zhang |
| Francisco Rubén Badenes-Pérez | Myung-Hyun Kim | Zhi-Teng Chen |
| Frank-Thorsten Krell | Nadezhda A. Berezina | Zhouli Liu |
| Frederic Muttin | Nadezhda Konstantinova | Zhuonan Wang |
| Fredrick Munyao Mutie | Naeun Jo | Zilia Y. Muñoz-Ramírez |
| Gabriela Castaño-Meneses | Narjess Karoui-Yaakoub | Zoltan Horvat |
| Gaëtan Guignard | Nasratullah Habibi | Zonghao Yue |
| Gennadii Golub | Natalia Miler | Zsolt Szekely-Varga |
| Geo Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge | Natalia Sawka-Gądek |