Best Paper Award

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The Humanities Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. Evaluation Committee Members choose 2 articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before last and announce them online by the end of June.

The prize:

– 2 papers will be selected;
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees, which is valid for one year.

Humanities Best Paper Award

Winners announced

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Humanities 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
6 Citations
11,089 Views
11 Pages
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Post-Postmodernism, the “Affective Turn”, and Inauthenticity
George Kowalik
Humanities2023, 12(1), 7;https://doi.org/10.3390/h12010007
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10 January 2023
This article considers Rachel Greenwald Smith’s concept of the “Affective Turn” in contemporary fiction by looking at a constellation of novels published near the turn of the twenty-first century: David Foster Wallace’s Infini...
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Horror Manga: Themes and Stylistics of Japanese Horror Comics
Paolo La Marca
Humanities2024, 13(1), 8;https://doi.org/10.3390/h13010008
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28 December 2023
The objective of this contribution is to create a first, ideal mapping of a “category” of manga that has experienced and is still experiencing a very successful season. Although they are generically identified with the term “horror...
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