Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Information 2020 Best Paper Awards” for research and review articles published in Information from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. Two papers will each receive an award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the EiC, and the winners will be announced in March 2022.

Eligibility for the Awards: 

–  Papers published in Information from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 will be considered;

–  The awards are open to researchers of 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 (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):

–  Scientific merit and broad impact;

–  Relevance to the journal’s field;

–  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;

–  Citation and download rates in 2021.

Prizes:

The award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs and a certificate. In addition, each winner will be given the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Information in 2022, after the normal peer-review procedure.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2022.

Kind regards,

Information Editorial Office

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 2020-2021. 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 2020-2021 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 apply by clicking the button above before 30 November 2020. The winners will be announced by 31 December 2020.

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

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.