The Machines Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight high quality publications of scientific significance and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose two articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal in 2024 and announce them online by the end of April 2026.
The Prize:
– One research article and one review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, 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.
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Machines 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 the uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.
The reliability assessment of electric machines plays a very critical role in today’s engineering world. The reliability assessment requires a good understanding of electric motors and their root causes. Electric machines mostly fail due to mec...
Borescope inspection is a labour-intensive process used to find defects in aircraft engines that contain areas not visible during a general visual inspection. The outcome of the process largely depends on the judgment of the maintenance professionals...
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