Geosciences 2023, 13(3), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13030063 - 23 Feb 2023
Best Paper Award
The Geosciences 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 February.
The prize:
– Two papers will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a waiver voucher for article processing fees, valid for one year.
Geosciences Best Paper Award
Winner announcement: 28 February 2026
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Geosciences 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
Near-Surface 2D Imaging via FWI of DAS Data: An Examination on the Impacts of FWI Starting Model
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. John Eichelberger
Chairman
Alaska Center for Energy and Power
Prof. Dr. Yangkang Chen
The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Domenico Montanari
Italian National Research Council
Prof. Karoly Nemeth
Massey University
Dr. Luciano Telesca
Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale
Winner
Reconstructing the Variscan Terranes in the Alpine Basement: Facts and Arguments for an Alpidic Orocline
Geosciences 2022, 12(2), 65; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12020065 - 30 Jan 2022
Impact of Well Placement in the Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs Based on Available Discrete Fractured System
Geosciences 2022, 12(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12010019 - 4 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
