Genealogy 2023, 7(3), 61; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7030061 - 26 Aug 2023
Best Paper Award
The Genealogy Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members select 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 June.
The Prize:
– First prize: The winners receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Genealogy before the end of 2026;
– Second prize: The winners receive CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Genealogy before the end of 2026.
Genealogy Best Paper Award
Winner announcement: 30 June 2026
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in the Genealogy 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
International Migration: Definition, Causes and Effects
Children of Holocaust Survivors: The Experience of Engaging with a Traumatic Family History
Genealogy 2023, 7(1), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7010020 - 10 Mar 2023
Award Committee
Dr. Athena Leoussi
Chairman
Dr. Natividad Gutiérrez Chong
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales UNAM
Dr. Joanna Beata Michlic
Winner
Regimes beyond the One-Drop Rule: New Models of Multiracial Identity
Genealogy 2022, 6(2), 57; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6020057 - 20 Jun 2022
‘This Society Has Taken Me.’ Intensive Parenting and Fragile Belonging among Second-Generation Minority Danish Parents
Genealogy 2022, 6(3), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6030063 - 8 Jul 2022
Winner
Ancestral Selfies and Historical Traumas: Who Do You Feel You Are?
Genealogy 2022, 6(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6010001 - 24 Dec 2021
What Motivates Family Historians? A Pilot Scale to Measure Psychosocial Drivers of Research into Personal Ancestry
Genealogy 2021, 5(3), 83; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5030083 - 15 Sep 2021
Winner
Carsten Humlebæk
Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Elena Zambelli
Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Award Committee
Dr. Natividad Gutiérrez Chong
Chairman
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales UNAM
