27 August 2025
Information Best Paper Award—Winners Announced

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We are pleased to announce the winners of the Information 2025 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Information (ISSN: 2078-2489) from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023 were considered for this award, and after a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected. We would like to congratulate the following winners:
“A Comparison of Undersampling, Oversampling, and SMOTE Methods for Dealing with Imbalanced Classification in Educational Data Mining”
by Tarid Wongvorachan, Surina He and Okan Bulut
Information 2023, 14(1), 54; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14010054
“Transformers in the Real World: A Survey on NLP Applications”
by Narendra Patwardhan, Stefano Marrone and Carlo Sansone
Information 2023, 14(4), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14040242
The announcement of the winners can be found on the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/awards/2812.
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Information 2025 Best Paper Award on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Information and the Award Committee for voting on and helping with this award.