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Best Paper Award

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

The Prize:
– One research article and one review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 300, a certificate, and a voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)—valid for one year.

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Lubricants Best Paper Award

Winner announcement date: 30 June 2026

Eligibility and Requirements:

– All papers published in Lubricants 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
Award Committee
  • Homer Rahnejat avatar imageHomer Rahnejat
    Homer Rahnejat
    Chairman
    University of Central Lancashire
  • Nick Moriris avatar imageNick Moriris
    Nick Moriris
    Loughborough University
  • Andreas Rosenkranz avatar imageAndreas Rosenkranz
    Andreas Rosenkranz
    University of Chile
  • Yong Sun avatar imageYong Sun
    Yong Sun
    De Montfort University
  • Jiusheng Li avatar imageJiusheng Li
    Jiusheng Li
    Shanghai Advanced Research Institute
  • Ashlie Martini avatar imageAshlie Martini
    Ashlie Martini

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