Best Paper Award

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The Galaxies 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 and announce them online by the end of April.

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.

Galaxies Best Paper Award

Winner announcement date: 30 April 2026

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Galaxies 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

Article
101 Citations
12,883 Views
38 Pages
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Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope
Michael D. Johnson,
Kazunori Akiyama,
Lindy Blackburn,
Katherine L. Bouman,
Avery E. Broderick,
Vitor Cardoso,
Rob P. Fender,
Christian M. Fromm,
Peter Galison and
Maciek Wielgus
+ 35 authors
Galaxies2023, 11(3), 61;https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11030061
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24 April 2023
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has led to the first images of a supermassive black hole, revealing the central compact objects in the elliptical galaxy M87 and the Milky Way. Proposed upgrades to this array through the next-generation EHT (ngEHT)...
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