Best Paper Award

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The Information Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members will choose two articles of exceptional quality published in the journal the year before last and announce the winners online by the end of June.

The Prize:
– Two papers will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year.

Information Best Paper Award

Winners announced

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Information are 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
265 Citations
44,354 Views
15 Pages
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A Comparison of Undersampling, Oversampling, and SMOTE Methods for Dealing with Imbalanced Classification in Educational Data Mining
Tarid Wongvorachan,
Surina He and
Okan Bulut
Information2023, 14(1), 54;https://doi.org/10.3390/info14010054
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16 January 2023
Educational data mining is capable of producing useful data-driven applications (e.g., early warning systems in schools or the prediction of students’ academic achievement) based on predictive models. However, the class imbalance problem in edu...
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Review
146 Citations
29,286 Views
17 Pages
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Transformers in the Real World: A Survey on NLP Applications
Narendra Patwardhan,
Stefano Marrone and
Carlo Sansone
Information2023, 14(4), 242;https://doi.org/10.3390/info14040242
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17 April 2023
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant transformation with the introduction of Transformers. From the first introduction of this technology in 2017, the use of transformers has become widespread and has had a profo...
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Award Committee

Antonio Comi
Antonio Comi
Department of Enterprise Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Danilo Avola
Danilo Avola
Sapienza University
Katsuhide Fujita
Katsuhide Fujita
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Jiguo Li
Jiguo Li
Fujian Normal University
Thomas Mandl
Thomas Mandl
University of Hildesheim
Paolo Di Giamberardino
Paolo Di Giamberardino