Outstanding Contributor Award

We are pleased to announce that the “Encyclopedia Outstanding Contributor Award” in 2025 is now open for applications. In 2025, we will award two outstanding contributors to the Encyclopedia platform (https://encyclopedia.pub/) and the journal Encyclopedia. After a thorough evaluation, the journal award committee, led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Raffaele Barretta, will select all eligible contributors. The winners will be announced in March 2026.

The Prize:

– CHF 300 (Swiss francs);
– An opportunity to publish one paper free of charge in the Encyclopedia journal before 31 December 2026, following peer review;
– An electronic certificate.

Application Deadline: 15 January 2026.

Please send your curriculum vitae/resume to our Editorial Office before the above deadline (encyclopedia@mdpi.com). As mentioned above, the winners will be announced on the journal’s website in March 2026.

Kind regards,

Encyclopedia Editorial Office.

 
Encyclopedia Outstanding Contributor Award
 
Winner announcement: 31 March 2026

Eligibility and Requirements

To be eligible, applicants must meet at least one of the following criteria:
– The applicants must have published at least one qualified entry/video/image on the Encyclopedia platform in 2025;
– The applicants must have published at least one paper in the Encyclopedia journal in 2025.

Selection Criteria

The award committee will evaluate applications based on a comprehensive consideration of the following criteria:
– The quantity and quality of entries/videos/images and papers contributed;
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– View, citation, and download rates in 2025.
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Italy / Durham University, UK
Ioannis Passas
Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Award Committee

Prof. Raffaele Barretta Chairman
University of Naples Federico II

Winner

Robert Friedman
Retired from Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Jude Okolie
Gallogly College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA

Award Committee

Prof. Raffaele Barretta Chairman
University of Naples Federico II
Prof. Dr. Sandro Serpa
University of the Azores
Dr. Milva Pepi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Prof. Harry H.X. Wang
Sun Yat-Sen University
Prof. Dr. Ali Bahadori-Jahromi
University of West London

Winner

Bjørn Grinde
Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, N-0213 Oslo, Norway
Bo-Wen Shen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA

Award Committee

Prof. Raffaele Barretta Chairman
University of Naples Federico II
Dr. Moran Amit
1979
Dr. Jandro Abot
Dr. Milva Pepi
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Prof. Dr. Sandro Serpa
University of the Azores

Winner

Carmen S.R. Freire
CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Award Committee

Prof. Raffaele Barretta Chairman
University of Naples Federico II
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