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Best Paper Award

The Separations Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The Evaluation Committee Members choose two articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of June.

The Prize

– One research article and one review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 400, a certificate, and a voucher to waive the Article Processing Charge (APC) for one submission to the journal (subject to peer review)—valid for one year.

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Separations Best Paper Award

Winner announcement date: 30 June 2026

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Separations will be eligible (both regular and Special Issue submissions).

Selection Criteria

– Scientific merit and broad impact.
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented.
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts.
– Clarity of presentation.
– Citations and downloads.

Past Winners

Winner
Award Committee
  • Victoria Samanidou avatar imageVictoria Samanidou
    Victoria Samanidou
    Chairman
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • ABAlberto Barbiroli
    Alberto Barbiroli
    Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences - University of Milan
  • Grzegorz Boczkaj avatar imageGrzegorz Boczkaj
    Grzegorz Boczkaj
    Gdansk University of Technology
  • Irene Panderi avatar imageIrene Panderi
    Irene Panderi
    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Pharmacy, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analysis.
  • Hongbo Gu avatar imageHongbo Gu
    Hongbo Gu
    Tongji University, China
  • Maria Ramos Payán avatar imageMaria Ramos Payán
    Maria Ramos Payán
    University of Seville
  • Dimosthenis L. Giokas avatar imageDimosthenis L. Giokas
    Dimosthenis L. Giokas
    University of Ioannina, Greece
  • Mohamed Khayet avatar imageMohamed Khayet
    Mohamed Khayet
    University Complutense of Madrid
  • Paraskevas Tzanavaras avatar imageParaskevas Tzanavaras
    Paraskevas Tzanavaras
    Chemistry Department, Aristotle University
  • Sascha Nowak avatar imageSascha Nowak
    Sascha Nowak
    University of Münster - MEET
  • Yundong Wang avatar imageYundong Wang
    Yundong Wang
    Tsinghua University, China

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