It is our great pleasure to announce the winners of Metals 2019 Highly Cited Paper Award to recognize the most highly cited paper in the past two years. The prize started in the middle of 2020 and it has been awarded three winners.

There papers have been selected for this award assessed by the Editorial Office of Metals from the papers published in 2017 and 2018. The paper citation data are based on citations in Web of Science in 2019.

1st Prize (with 42 citations)
Corrosion-Resistant High-Entropy Alloys: A Review
Yunzhu Shi, Bin Yang, and Peter K. Liaw
Metals 2017, 7, 42; doi:10.3390/met7020043
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/7/2/43


2nd Prize (with 22 citations)
The Prospects of Zinc as a Structural Material for Biodegradable Implants—A Review Paper
Galit Katarivas Levy, Jeremy Goldman, and Eli Aghion
Metals 2017, 7, 402; doi:10.3390/met7100402
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/7/10/402

3rd Prize (with 18 citations)
A Review of Metastable Beta Titanium Alloys
R. Prakash Kolli and Arun Devaraj
Metals 2018, 8, 506; doi:10.3390/met8070506
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/8/7/506

These three outstanding papers are valuable contributions to Metals. On behalf of the Editorial Board and Editorial Office, we would like to congratulate these three teams for their excellent work. In recognition of their accomplishment, the first prize team will be granted 600 CHF, the second prize team will be granted 400 CHF, and the third prize team will be granted 300 CHF.

Metals Editorial Office