30 July 2025
Metals Best Paper Award—Winners Announced

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Metals (ISSN: 2075-4701) is pleased to announce the winners of the Metals 2023 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2023 in Metals were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.
The prizes were as follows:
We would like to congratulate the following winners:
“A Review on Processing–Microstructure–Property Relationships of Al-Si Alloys: Recent Advances in Deformation Behavior”
by Soumya Sobhan Dash and Daolun Chen
Metals 2023, 13(3), 609; https://doi.org/10.3390/met13030609
“Effect of Laser Shock Peening on the Stress Corrosion Cracking of 304L Stainless Steel”
by Young-Ran Yoo, Seung-Heon Choi and Young-Sik Kim
Metals 2023, 13(3), 516; https://doi.org/10.3390/met13030516
The announcement can be found at the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/awards/3091.
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Metals Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of the authors for their continued support.
Metals Editorial Office