Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to announce the five winners of the Metals 2021 Highly Cited Paper Award, to recognize highly cited papers published in Metals from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020. The papers that have been selected for this award were assessed by the Metals Award Committee, led by the EiC, Prof. Dr. Hugo F. Lopez. The recipients of the Metals 2021 Highly Cited Paper Award are as follows:

First Prize (CHF 800 and a certificate)
A Review of the Serrated-Flow Phenomenon and Its Role in the Deformation Behavior of High-Entropy Alloys
By Jamieson Brechtl, Shuying Chen, Chanho Lee, Yunzhu Shi, Rui Feng, Xie Xie, David Hamblin, Anne M. Coleman, Bradley Straka, Hugh Shortt, R. Jackson Spurling and Peter K. Liaw
Metals 2020, 10(8), 1101; doi: 10.3390/met10081101

Second Prize (CHF 500 and a certificate)
Recent Development in Beta Titanium Alloys for Biomedical Applications
By Liang-Yu Chen, Yu-Wei Cui, Lai-Chang Zhang
Metals 2020, 10(9), 1139; doi: 10.3390/met10091139

3D Printing of Highly Pure Copper
By Thang Q. Tran, Amutha Chinnappan, Jeremy Kong Yoong Lee, Nguyen Huu Loc, Long T. Tran, Gengjie Wang, Vishnu Vijay Kumar, W. A. D. M. Jayathilaka, Dongxiao Ji, Mrityunjay Doddamani and Seeram Ramakrishna
Metals 2019, 9(7), 756; doi: 10.3390/met9070756

Third Prize (CHF 300 and a certificate)
Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing of Aluminum Components
By Markus Köhler, Sierk Fiebig, Jonas Hensel and Klaus Dilger
Metals 2019, 9(5), 608; doi: 10.3390/met9050608

Mechanical and Microstructural Characterization of TIG Welded Dissimilar Joints between 304L Austenitic Stainless Steel and Incoloy 800HT Nickel Alloy
By Grzegorz Rogalski, Aleksandra Świerczyńska, Michał Landowski and Dariusz Fydrych
Metals 2020, 10(5), 559; doi: 10.3390/met10050559

On behalf of the Editorial Board and Editorial Office, we would like to congratulate these five teams for their excellent work. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Metals.

Kind regards,
Metals Editorial Office