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Best Paper Award

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

The Prize:
– Four research articles and one review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)—valid for one year.

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Entropy Best Paper Award

Winner announcement date: 30 June 2026

Eligibility and Requirements:

– All papers published in Entropy 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

Winner
Award Committee
  • Kevin Knuth avatar imageKevin Knuth
    Kevin Knuth
    Chairman
    University at Albany, USA
  • Antonio Maria Scarfone avatar imageAntonio Maria Scarfone
    Antonio Maria Scarfone
    Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
  • Carlo Cafaro avatar imageCarlo Cafaro
    Carlo Cafaro
    University at Albany-SUNY, USA
  • Dawn Holmes avatar imageDawn Holmes
    Dawn Holmes
    University of California, USA
  • GuiLu Long avatar imageGuiLu Long
    GuiLu Long
    Tsinghua University, China
  • José Mendes avatar imageJosé Mendes
    José Mendes
    University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Lamberto Rondoni avatar imageLamberto Rondoni
    Lamberto Rondoni
    Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • LMLeonid Martyushev
    Leonid Martyushev
    Ural Federal University, Russia
  • Luca Faes avatar imageLuca Faes
    Luca Faes
    University of Palermo, Italy
  • Matteo Convertino avatar imageMatteo Convertino
    Matteo Convertino
    Tsinghua University, China
  • Miguel Rubi avatar imageMiguel Rubi
    Miguel Rubi
    University of Barcelona, Spain
  • Nikolay K Vitanov avatar imageNikolay K Vitanov
    Nikolay K Vitanov
    Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
  • Peter Harremoës avatar imagePeter Harremoës
    Peter Harremoës
    Copenhagen Business College, Denmark
  • Syed Jafar avatar imageSyed Jafar
    Syed Jafar
  • Udo Von Toussaint avatar imageUdo Von Toussaint
    Udo Von Toussaint
    Max-Planck-Insitut for Plasmaphysics, Germany
  • Yasar Demirel avatar imageYasar Demirel
    Yasar Demirel
    University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

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