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Best Paper Award

The Quaternary Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The Evaluation Committee Members choose one research article of exceptional quality published in the journal during the previous year and announce it online by the end of March.

The Prize:
– CHF 500,
– An electronic certificate;
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in Quaternary in 2025 after peer review.

 
Quaternary Best Paper Award
 
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Eligibility and Requirements:

– All papers published in the Quaternary 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;
– High number of citations and downloads.

 
Past Winners
 
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Winner

18 pages, 4782 KiB  
Article
Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack
by Sarah Britzius, Frank Dreher, Patricia Maisel and Frank Sirocko
Quaternary 2024, 7(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7010008 - 6 Feb 2024

Award Committee

Prof. Jef Vandenberghe Chairman
Vrije Universiteit
Prof. Anna Maria Mercuri
Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, Dièartimento di Scienze dellla Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Dr. Juan Manuel López-García
Dr. Xianyan Wang
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University

Winner

31 pages, 5046 KiB  
Article
Neanderthal Fossils, Mobile Toolkit and a Hyena Den: The Archaeological Assemblage of Lateral Gallery 1 in Cova Del Gegant (NE Iberian Peninsula)
by Joan Daura, Montserrat Sanz, Manuel Vaquero, Juan Manuel López-García, Hugues-Alexandre Blain and Antonio Sánchez Marco
Quaternary 2022, 5(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5010012 - 18 Feb 2022
31 pages, 5942 KiB  
Review
Reconstructing Paleoflood Occurrence and Magnitude from Lake Sediments
by Bruno Wilhelm, Benjamin Amann, Juan Pablo Corella, William Rapuc, Charline Giguet-Covex, Bruno Merz and Eivind Støren
Quaternary 2022, 5(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5010009 - 1 Feb 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Jef Vandenberghe Chairman
Vrije Universiteit
Prof. Anna Maria Mercuri
Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, Dièartimento di Scienze dellla Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Dr. Xianyan Wang
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University
Prof. Maria Rita Palombo
CNR-IGAG

Winner

18 pages, 4867 KiB  
Article
Dating of the Lower Pleistocene Vertebrate Site of Tsiotra Vryssi (Mygdonia Basin, Greece): Biochronology, Magnetostratigraphy, and Cosmogenic Radionuclides
by George E. Konidaris, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Matteo Maron, Mirjam Schaller, Todd A. Ehlers, Elina Aidona, Mattia Marini, Vangelis Tourloukis, Giovanni Muttoni, George D. Koufos and Katerina Harvati
Quaternary 2021, 4(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010001 - 8 Jan 2021
30 pages, 15913 KiB  
Article
The Late Quaternary Evolution of the Upper Reaches of Fluvial Systems in the Southern East European Plain
by Andrey Panin, Olga Borisova, Evgeny Konstantinov, Yury Belyaev, Ekaterina Eremenko, Andrey Zakharov and Aleksey Sidorchuk
Quaternary 2020, 3(4), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat3040031 - 13 Nov 2020
21 pages, 3752 KiB  
Article
Comparison of Climate Model Simulations of the Younger Dryas Cold Event
by Hans Renssen
Quaternary 2020, 3(4), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat3040029 - 3 Oct 2020
58 pages, 6049 KiB  
Review
Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations
by Eric Capo, Charline Giguet-Covex, Alexandra Rouillard, Kevin Nota, Peter D. Heintzman, Aurèle Vuillemin, Daniel Ariztegui, Fabien Arnaud, Simon Belle, Stefan Bertilsson, Christian Bigler, Richard Bindler, Antony G. Brown, Charlotte L. Clarke, Sarah E. Crump, Didier Debroas, Göran Englund, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Rebecca E. Garner, Joanna Gauthier, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Liv Heinecke, Ulrike Herzschuh, Anan Ibrahim, Veljo Kisand, Kurt H. Kjær, Youri Lammers, Joanne Littlefair, Erwan Messager, Marie-Eve Monchamp, Fredrik Olajos, William Orsi, Mikkel W. Pedersen, Dilli P. Rijal, Johan Rydberg, Trisha Spanbauer, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Pierre Taberlet, Liisi Talas, Camille Thomas, David A. Walsh, Yucheng Wang, Eske Willerslev, Anne van Woerkom, Heike H. Zimmermann, Marco J. L. Coolen, Laura S. Epp, Isabelle Domaizon, Inger G. Alsos and Laura Parducciadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
Quaternary 2021, 4(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010006 - 13 Feb 2021
35 pages, 1045 KiB  
Review
Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics
by Charles R. Clement, Alejandro Casas, Fabiola Alexandra Parra-Rondinel, Carolina Levis, Nivaldo Peroni, Natalia Hanazaki, Laura Cortés-Zárraga, Selene Rangel-Landa, Rubana Palhares Alves, Maria Julia Ferreira, Mariana Franco Cassino, Sara Deambrozi Coelho, Aldo Cruz-Soriano, Marggiori Pancorbo-Olivera, José Blancas, Andrea Martínez-Ballesté, Gustavo Lemes, Elisa Lotero-Velásquez, Vinicius Mutti Bertin and Guilherme Gerhardt Mazzochini
Quaternary 2021, 4(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010004 - 28 Jan 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Jef Vandenberghe Chairman
Vrije Universiteit

Winner

13 pages, 1762 KiB  
Article
From Climatic to Anthropogenic Drivers: A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Vegetation and Peatland Development in the French Jura Mountains
by Emilie Gauthier, Vincent E.J. Jassey, Edward A.D. Mitchell, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Richard Payne, Frédéric Delarue, Fatima Laggoun-Defarge, Daniel Gilbert and Hervé Richard
Quaternary 2019, 2(4), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2040038 - 2 Dec 2019
19 pages, 7194 KiB  
Article
Dropstones in Lacustrine Sediments as a Record of Snow Avalanches—A Validation of the Proxy by Combining Satellite Imagery and Varve Chronology at Kenai Lake (South-Central Alaska)
by Sien Thys, Maarten Van Daele, Nore Praet, Britta J.L. Jensen, Thomas Van Dyck, Peter J. Haeussler, Elke Vandekerkhove, Veerle Cnudde and Marc De Batist
Quaternary 2019, 2(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2010011 - 1 Mar 2019
17 pages, 2094 KiB  
Article
Last Interglacial Climate in Northern Sweden—Insights from a Speleothem Record
by Martin Finné, Sakari Salonen, Norbert Frank, Karin F. Helmens, Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau, Michael Deininger and Steffen Holzkämper
Quaternary 2019, 2(3), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2030029 - 20 Aug 2019
20 pages, 5832 KiB  
Article
Erosive Response of Non-Glaciated Pyrenean Headwater Catchments to the Last Major Climate Transition and Establishing Interglacial Conditions
by Kurt Martin Stange, Ivar Midtkandal, Johan Petter Nystuen, Andrew Murray, Reza Sohbati, Warren Thompson, Cornelia Spiegel and Hans-Joachim Kuss
Quaternary 2019, 2(2), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2020017 - 7 May 2019
20 pages, 3636 KiB  
Article
Climatically-Controlled River Terraces in Eastern Australia
by James S. Daley and Tim J. Cohen
Quaternary 2018, 1(3), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat1030023 - 16 Oct 2018
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