Best Paper Award

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

The Prize:
– Two research articles 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.

 
Electronics Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 31 March 2026

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Electronics 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

24 pages, 2964 KiB  
Review
Solid State Transformers: A Critical Review of Projects with Relevant Prototypes and Demonstrators
by David Cervero, Maria Fotopoulou, Jesús Muñoz-Cruzado, Dimitrios Rakopoulos, Fotis Stergiopoulos, Nikos Nikolopoulos, Spyros Voutetakis and José Francisco Sanz
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 931; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040931 - 13 Feb 2023
18 pages, 1907 KiB  
Article
Distributed Deep Neural-Network-Based Middleware for Cyber-Attacks Detection in Smart IoT Ecosystem: A Novel Framework and Performance Evaluation Approach
by Guru Bhandari, Andreas Lyth, Andrii Shalaginov and Tor-Morten Grønli
Electronics 2023, 12(2), 298; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12020298 - 6 Jan 2023
23 pages, 2761 KiB  
Article
Predictive Maintenance for Distribution System Operators in Increasing Transformers’ Reliability
by Vasiliki Vita, Georgios Fotis, Veselin Chobanov, Christos Pavlatos and Valeri Mladenov
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1356; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061356 - 12 Mar 2023

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero Chairman
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Prof. Dr. Bo Ai
Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Prof. Dr. Costas Psychalinos
University of Patras, Greece
Dr. Djuradj Budimir
University of Westminster, UK

Winner

26 pages, 2902 KiB  
Review
A Review of Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Electric Vehicle Battery Charging with a Focus on Inductive Coupling
by Iman Okasili, Ahmad Elkhateb and Timothy Littler
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1355; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091355 - 24 Apr 2022
13 pages, 2596 KiB  
Article
A Deep Learning Model for Network Intrusion Detection with Imbalanced Data
by Yanfang Fu, Yishuai Du, Zijian Cao, Qiang Li and Wei Xiang
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 898; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060898 - 14 Mar 2022
14 pages, 1746 KiB  
Article
Machine Learning for DDoS Attack Detection in Industry 4.0 CPPSs
by Firooz B. Saghezchi, Georgios Mantas, Manuel A. Violas, A. Manuel de Oliveira Duarte and Jonathan Rodriguez
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 602; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040602 - 16 Feb 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero Chairman
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Kostas Karpouzis
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Prof. Manuel Arrebola
Universidad de Oviedo
Prof. Jingyang Fang

Winner

19 pages, 7517 KiB  
Review
Evaluating the Quality of Machine Learning Explanations: A Survey on Methods and Metrics
by Jianlong Zhou, Amir H. Gandomi, Fang Chen and Andreas Holzinger
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 593; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10050593 - 4 Mar 2021
13 pages, 8777 KiB  
Article
A Real-Time Detection Algorithm for Kiwifruit Defects Based on YOLOv5
by Jia Yao, Jiaming Qi, Jie Zhang, Hongmin Shao, Jia Yang and Xin Li
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1711; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10141711 - 17 Jul 2021
14 pages, 1776 KiB  
Article
Automated Workers’ Ergonomic Risk Assessment in Manual Material Handling Using sEMG Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning
by Srimantha E. Mudiyanselage, Phuong Hoang Dat Nguyen, Mohammad Sadra Rajabi and Reza Akhavian
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2558; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10202558 - 19 Oct 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero Chairman
Politecnico di Torino

Winner

24 pages, 5982 KiB  
Review
Challenges and Applications of Emerging Nonvolatile Memory Devices
by Writam Banerjee
Electronics 2020, 9(6), 1029; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9061029 - 22 Jun 2020
29 pages, 10918 KiB  
Article
Sentiment Analysis Based on Deep Learning: A Comparative Study
by Nhan Cach Dang, María N. Moreno-García and Fernando De la Prieta
Electronics 2020, 9(3), 483; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9030483 - 14 Mar 2020

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero Chairman
Politecnico di Torino

Winner

16 pages, 3978 KiB  
Article
Assessment of Dual Frequency GNSS Observations from a Xiaomi Mi 8 Android Smartphone and Positioning Performance Analysis
by Umberto Robustelli, Valerio Baiocchi and Giovanni Pugliano
Electronics 2019, 8(1), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8010091 - 15 Jan 2019
66 pages, 13905 KiB  
Review
A State-of-the-Art Survey on Deep Learning Theory and Architectures
by Md Zahangir Alom, Tarek M. Taha, Chris Yakopcic, Stefan Westberg, Paheding Sidike, Mst Shamima Nasrin, Mahmudul Hasan, Brian C. Van Essen, Abdul A. S. Awwal and Vijayan K. Asari
Electronics 2019, 8(3), 292; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8030292 - 5 Mar 2019
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