To acknowledge the authors’ continued support, we are pleased to announce the “Information Best Paper Awards 2020” for research and review articles published between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019. After a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee, two papers will receive the award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo

Eligibility for the awards:

–– Papers published in Information from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.
–– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.
–– Only original research articles and reviews will be considered.

Selection criteria:

The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
–– Originality and novelty of research objectives and/or ideas presented.
–– Citation and download rates in 2020. –– Data Source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).

Prizes:

The award will consist of a certificate and 500 Swiss Francs. In addition, each winner can publish a paper free of charge in Information, after the normal peer-review procedure.

Winners announcement:

The winners will be announced to the public on 31 March 2021. For further details, please click here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/awards.

We are inviting applications for one Travel Award for postdoctoral researchers and PhD students in the area of information and their applications to attend an international conference of their choice in 2020. The award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee presided by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo.

Candidates’ Requirements:

– PhD students or postdoctoral researchers.
– Attend an international conference in 2020 to present research (either via an oral presentation or poster) in the area of information and their applications
– Applicants are required to submit the following documents:
– Outline of current and future work.
– CV, including a complete list of publications.
– Attach your best publication to date and state why you chose this publication.
– Justification letter, contains the conference abstract, the conference you plan to attend and the proof of acceptance of the conference abstract (if you have).
– A letter of recommendation from a supervisor or PI (Principal Investigator).

A general requirement will be that all candidates should be PhD students or postdoctoral reaearchers and they must present their own original work as an oral presentation (or poster) at the conference for which the travel award application is being made.

The award will consist of 800 Swiss Francs.

Please send your applications to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/awards/ by May 31st 2020. The winners will be announced by June 30th 2020.

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the Information Best Paper Awards 2018. The winners were chosen by a selection committee, which was composed of Information Editorial Board Members, and finally approved by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo. The three winning papers of the Information Best Paper Awards 2018 are as follows:

Histopathological Breast-Image Classification Using Local and Frequency Domains by Convolutional Neural Network
Abdullah-Al Nahid and Yinan Kong
Information 2018, 9(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9010019

Dynamic Handwriting Analysis for Supporting Earlier Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis
Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Gennaro Vessio
Information 2018, 9(10), 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9100247

Mobile Mixed Reality for Experiential Learning and Simulation in Medical and Health Sciences Education
James Birt, Zane Stromberga, Michael Cowling and Christian Moro
Information 2018, 9(2), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9020031

We congratulate the authors and thank them for having chosen Information to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will each receive a cash award of 500 CHF and the privilege of publishing an additional research article or review paper free of charge in open access format in Information after the usual peer-review procedure.