The Animals Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members chose five articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal in the year before last, and the winners will be announced online by the end of May 2025.
The Prize:
– 3 research articles and 2 reviews will be selected:
– The first prize (one review and one research article): CHF 500 each;
– The second prize (one review and two research articles): CHF 300 each;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate and the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Animals in 2025 following peer review.
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in the Animals 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.
As humans expand their territories across more and more regions of the planet, activities such as deforestation, urbanization, tourism, wildlife exploitation, and climate change can have drastic consequences for animal movements and animal–huma...
Pollution due to microplastics and nanoplastics is one of the major environmental issues of the last decade and represents a growing threat to human and animal health. In aquatic species, there is a large amount of information regarding the perturbat...
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a long-term cold environment on growth performance, physiological behavior, biochemical blood indexes, and hormone levels in Simmental cattle. Thirty Simmental crossbred bulls (weight = 350 ± 17 kg,...
The European hedgehog is in decline, triggering a need to monitor population dynamics to optimise conservation initiatives directed at this species. By counting periosteal growth lines, we determined the age of 388 dead European hedgehogs collected t...
Cattle behavior recognition is essential for monitoring their health and welfare. Existing techniques for behavior recognition in closed barns typically rely on direct observation to detect changes using wearable devices or surveillance cameras. Whil...
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