Best Paper Award

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The Children 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, announcing them online by the end of June.

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

 
Children Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Children 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

16 pages, 653 KiB  
Review
Pediatric Sleep Respiratory Disorders: A Narrative Review of Epidemiology and Risk Factors
by Marta Piotto, Antonella Gambadauro, Alessia Rocchi, Mara Lelii, Barbara Madini, Lucia Cerrato, Federica Chironi, Youssra Belhaj and Maria Francesca Patria
Children 2023, 10(6), 955; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10060955 - 27 May 2023
10 pages, 256 KiB  
Article
Pediatric and School-Age Vision Screening in the United States: Rationale, Components, and Future Directions
by Christina Ambrosino, Xi Dai, Bani Antonio Aguirre and Megan E. Collins
Children 2023, 10(3), 490; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030490 - 2 Mar 2023

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Marco Carotenuto Chairman
Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Prof. Dr. Niels Wedderkopp
The Pediatric Research Unit, University of Southern Denmark
Dr. Matteo Chiappedi
Istituto Dosso Verde
Prof. Dr. Robert Ware

Winner

21 pages, 381 KiB  
Review
A Critical Review on the Complex Interplay between Social Determinants of Health and Maternal and Infant Mortality
by Rada K. Dagher and Deborah E. Linares
Children 2022, 9(3), 394; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9030394 - 10 Mar 2022
15 pages, 883 KiB  
Article
Epidemiology, Microbiology and Severity of Bronchiolitis in the First Post-Lockdown Cold Season in Three Different Geographical Areas in Italy: A Prospective, Observational Study
by Anna Camporesi, Rosa Morello, Valentina Ferro, Luca Pierantoni, Alessandro Rocca, Marcello Lanari, Gian Luca Trobia, Tiziana Sciacca, Agata Giuseppina Bellinvia, Alessandra De Ferrari, Piero Valentini, Damian Roland and Danilo Buonsenso
Children 2022, 9(4), 491; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9040491 - 1 Apr 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Paul Carney Chairman
University of North Carolina

Winner

14 pages, 3158 KiB  
Article
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Interrelation of Physical Activity, Screen Time and Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents in Germany: Results of the Motorik-Modul Study
by Kathrin Wunsch, Carina Nigg, Claudia Niessner, Steffen C. E. Schmidt, Doris Oriwol, Anke Hanssen-Doose, Alexander Burchartz, Ana Eichsteller, Simon Kolb, Annette Worth and Alexander Woll
Children 2021, 8(2), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/children8020098 - 2 Feb 2021
16 pages, 270 KiB  
Review
Obesity in Children and Adolescents during COVID-19 Pandemic
by Androniki Stavridou, Evangelia Kapsali, Eleni Panagouli, Athanasios Thirios, Konstantinos Polychronis, Flora Bacopoulou, Theodora Psaltopoulou, Maria Tsolia, Theodoros N. Sergentanis and Artemis Tsitsika
Children 2021, 8(2), 135; https://doi.org/10.3390/children8020135 - 12 Feb 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Paul Carney Chairman
University of North Carolina

Winner

11 pages, 1460 KiB  
Review
Hepatoblastoma—The Evolution of Biology, Surgery, and Transplantation
by Irene Isabel P. Lim, Alexander J. Bondoc, James I. Geller and Gregory M. Tiao
Children 2019, 6(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/children6010001 - 21 Dec 2018
11 pages, 289 KiB  
Article
Family Income at Birth and Risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder at Age 15: Racial Differences
by Shervin Assari and Cleopatra Howard Caldwell
Children 2019, 6(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/children6010010 - 14 Jan 2019

Award Committee

Dr. Sari Acra Chairman
Vanderbilt University
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