MDPI Reviewer Club 2025 | Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics Session
MDPI Reviewer Club 2025 | Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics Session
18 September 2025
Peer Review, Academic Publishing, Research Integrity, Rational Finance, Scholarly Evaluation, Social Sciences, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Research
Welcome from the Chair
Welcome to the MDPI Reviewer Club 2025 | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Business and Economics Session.
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Date: 18 September 2025
Time: 5:00 p.m. CEST |11:00 a.m. EDT | 11:00 p.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 893 7506 6854
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Event Chair
Ms. Irena Miljković is a Journal Relations Specialist at MDPI, with more than six years of experience in academic publishing. She began her career at MDPI as an Assistant Editor, later serving as Section Managing Editor before moving into her current role, where she focuses on building strong relationships with editors, reviewers, and authors. Irena holds a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade and completed specialist studies in Food Chemistry at the Faculty of Agriculture in Belgrade. Her work combines strong organizational and communication skills with a passion for supporting high-quality scholarly publishing.
Keynote Speakers
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
What Makes a Good Referee in Finance? Upholding Rational Finance Standards in Peer Review.
Svetlozar (Zari) Rachev is Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at Texas Tech University. A scholar in rational finance, he works at the interface of probability, financial econometrics, asset pricing, and portfolio optimization. He previously held the Frey Family Foundation Chair of Quantitative Finance at Stony Brook University and an endowed chair in Econometrics and Mathematical Finance at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and he served as Professor and Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Rachev has authored 300+ research articles and 25+ books/handbooks, including works on heavy-tailed distributions, risk measures, and financial econometrics. His research has influenced both academia and industry (including several U.S. patents). He has supervised dozens of PhD students and remains an advocate for rigorous, empirically validated models in finance.
Rational Finance, Probability, Financial Econometrics, Asset Pricing, Portfolio Optimization
Department of International Studies (Global Studies), University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Arts and the Social Sciences: Evaluating Articles Across Disciplines
John Zarobell is Professor of Global Studies at the University of San Francisco, and was formerly a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and SFMOMA. His first book, Empire of Landscape, focused upon visual culture in colonial Algeria and was published in 2010. Art and the Global Economy, published in 2017, analyzes major changes in the art world as a result of globalization. He is currently working on a long-term research project on Asian Megacities and the role of arts in urban development. In 2025, he was named Reviewer of the Year by the MDPI journal Arts.
Global Studies, Visual Culture, Art History, Curatorial Studies, Colonial Visual Culture, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Imperialism, Globalization and Art, Art and Political Economy, Art Markets, Museums and Cultural Institutions, Asian Megacities, Urban
Registration
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Programme
|
Speaker |
Presentation |
Time (CEST) |
Time (EST) |
| Ms. Irena Miljkovic |
Introduction |
5:00 – 5:10 pm |
11:00 – 11:10 am |
|
Prof. Dr. Svetlozar (Zari) Rachev |
What Makes a Good Referee in Finance? Upholding Rational Finance Standards in Peer Review. |
5:10 – 5:30 pm |
11:10 – 11:30 am |
|
Prof. Dr. John Zarobell |
Arts and the Social Sciences: Evaluating Articles Across Disciplines |
5:30 – 5:50 pm |
11:30 – 11:50 am |
|
|
Q&A |
5:50 – 6:20 pm |
11:50 am – 12:20 pm |
|
Ms. Irena Miljkovic |
Closing of Webinar |
6:20 – 6:25 pm |
6:20 – 6:25 pm |
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