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Best Paper Award

Fermentation Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose 2 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:

– One research article 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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Fermentation Best Paper Award

Winner announcement date: 30 June 2026

Eligibility and Requirements:

– All papers published in Fermentation 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
  • Badal C. Saha avatar imageBadal C. Saha
    Badal C. Saha
    Chairman
    USDA-ARS-NCAUR (Retired)
  • Spiros Paramithiotis avatar imageSpiros Paramithiotis
    Spiros Paramithiotis
    Department of Biological Applications and Technology, University of Ioannina
  • TKTaj Keshavarz
    Taj Keshavarz
    University of Westminster
  • Ronnie Guy Willaert avatar imageRonnie Guy Willaert
    Ronnie Guy Willaert
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • Antonio Morata avatar imageAntonio Morata
    Antonio Morata
    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Miguel Ladero avatar imageMiguel Ladero
    Miguel Ladero
    Complutense University
  • Maurizio Ciani avatar imageMaurizio Ciani
    Maurizio Ciani
    Polytechnic University of Marche
  • Thaddeus Ezeji avatar imageThaddeus Ezeji
    Thaddeus Ezeji
    The Ohio State University
  • KSKenji Sakai
    Kenji Sakai
    Faculty of Agriculture Kyushu University

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