Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Geosciences 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Geosciences were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning research articles, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, have been selected.

Hydrogen Emanations in Intracratonic Areas: New Guide Lines for Early Exploration Basin Screening
By Isabelle Moretti, Emyrose Brouilly, Keanu Loiseau, Alain Prinzhofer and Eric Deville
Geosciences 2021, 11(3), 145; doi:10.3390/geosciences11030145

Advances and Challenges in Palaeoenvironmental Studies Based on Oxygen Isotope Composition of Skeletal Carbonates and Phosphates
By Hubert Wierzbowski
Geosciences 2021, 11(10), 419; doi:10.3390/geosciences11100419

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Geosciences in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Geosciences and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias, Geosciences

 
Geosciences 2022 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Geosciences will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

29 pages, 80409 KiB  
Article
Reconstructing the Variscan Terranes in the Alpine Basement: Facts and Arguments for an Alpidic Orocline
by Michel Faure and Jacky Ferrière
Geosciences 2022, 12(2), 65; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12020065 - 30 Jan 2022
18 pages, 4674 KiB  
Article
Impact of Well Placement in the Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs Based on Available Discrete Fractured System
by Saeed Mahmoodpour, Mrityunjay Singh, Kristian Bär and Ingo Sass
Geosciences 2022, 12(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12010019 - 04 Jan 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Jesús Martínez Frías Chairman
Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO (CSIC-UCM)
Prof. Karoly Nemeth
Massey University
Dr. Gianluca Groppelli
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Prof. Dimitrios Nikolopoulos
University of West Attica, Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering
Prof. Ioannis Koukouvelas
University of Patras

Winner

Zeinab Smillie
Institute of Geo-Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University
Károly Németh
Volcanic Risk Solutions, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Turitea Campus

Winner

Larry Mayer
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/2/63
Patrick Meister
Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/9/12/507
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