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Awards
Information 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Information by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Information.
What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All of the reviewers for Information in 2023 will be automatically included.
Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.
What will the winners receive?
There will be three winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Information in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.
When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in March 2024 on the journal website.
How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Information, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.
Kind regards,
Information Editorial Office
Information 2022 Best Paper Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the “Information 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Information from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One review and one research article will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo.
Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Information from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.
Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following 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.
The Prize:
The award will consist of CHF 500 and a certificate. In addition, each winner will be given the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Information in 2024, after the normal peer-review procedure.
The winners will be announced on the journal website in April 2024.
Kind regards,
Information Editorial Office
Closed Awards
Information 2021 Best Paper Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Information 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Information from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.
One Review:
Identifying Fake News on Social Networks Based on Natural Language Processing: Trends and Challenges
By Nicollas R. de Oliveira, Pedro S. Pisa, Martin Andreoni Lopez, Dianne Scherly V. de Medeiros and Diogo M. F. Mattos
Information 2021, 12(1), 38; doi:10.3390/info12010038
One Article:
An Ambient Intelligence-Based Human Behavior Monitoring Framework for Ubiquitous Environments
By Nirmalya Thakur and Chia Y. Han
Information 2021, 12(2), 81; doi:10.3390/info12020081
Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Information in 2023 after peer review.
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Information 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Information.
Kind regards,
Information Editorial Office
Information 2020 Best Paper Award
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Information 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 in Information were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo, have been selected.
Research Article:
Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning
by Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger
Information 2020, 11(2), 108; doi:10.3390/info11020108
Research Article:
From HMI to HMIs: Towards an HMI Framework for Automated Driving
by Klaus Bengler, Michael Rettenmaier, Nicole Fritz, and Alexander Feierle
Information 2020, 11(2), 61; doi:10.3390/info11020061
Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and be given the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Information 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 Information and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo, Information
Information 2019 Best Paper Award
Dear colleagues,
As the Editor-in-Chief of Information, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Information 2019 Best Paper Awards.
The winners are:
One Review Article:
“Text Classification Algorithms: A Survey”
by Kamran Kowsari, Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Mojtaba Heidarysafa, Sanjana Mendu, Laura Barnes and Donald Brown
Information 2019, 10(4), 150; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10040150
One Research Article:
“Noisy ECG Signal Analysis for Automatic Peak Detection”
by Matteo D’Aloia, Annalisa Longo and Maria Rizzi
Information 2019, 10(2), 35; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10020035
Each winner (corresponding author) will receive 500 CHF and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Information in 2021.
On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Information, and to thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo, Information
Information 2018 Best Paper Award
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.