Best Paper Award

Agriculture Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose 1 article and 1 review of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of July.

The Prize:
– 1 research article and 1 review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year.

 
Agriculture Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 31 July 2025

Eligibility and Requirements:

– All papers published in the Agriculture 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
 
Year: 

Winner

30 pages, 2563 KiB  
Article
Reconnecting Farmers with Nature through Agroecological Transitions: Interacting Niches and Experimentation and the Role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems
by Cynthia Giagnocavo, Miguel de Cara-García, Mónica González, Melchor Juan, José Ignacio Marín-Guirao, Sepide Mehrabi, Estefanía Rodríguez, Jan van der Blom and Eduardo Crisol-Martínez
Agriculture 2022, 12(2), 137; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12020137 - 20 Jan 2022
27 pages, 1399 KiB  
Review
Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Plant Agriculture: A One Health Perspective
by Sally A. Miller, Jorge Pinto Ferreira and Jeffrey T. LeJeune
Agriculture 2022, 12(2), 289; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12020289 - 17 Feb 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Les Copeland Chairman
University of Sydney
Dr. Caiyun Lu
China Agricultural University
Prof. Manuel Ângelo Rosa Rodrigues
Prof. Roberto Mancinelli
University of Tuscia
Dr. Athanasios Koukounaras
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Winner

Nahina Islam
18 pages, 2363 KiB  
Review
Review on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Applied to Plant Leaf Disease Classification
by Jinzhu Lu, Lijuan Tan and Huanyu Jiang
Agriculture 2021, 11(8), 707; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11080707 - 27 Jul 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Les Copeland Chairman
University of Sydney

Winner

Yang Li
Ewa Ozimek

Award Committee

Prof. Les Copeland Chairman
University of Sydney

Winner

Niko Viljanen
Department of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Geodeetinrinne 2, 02430 Masala, Finland paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/8/5/70
Kathleen Araújo
1. Department of Technology and Society, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/7/4/32
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