Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Frank L. Dorman, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously review papers submitted to Separations by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated dedication, professionalism, and timeliness.

Eligibility for the Awards:
All of the reviewers for Separations in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– The number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be three winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 400;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Separations in 2024 after peer review;
– An electronic certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in March 2024 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Separations, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer via the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Dear Colleagues,

As the Section Editor-in-Chief of Separations, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Separations 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to: Dr. Natalia Manousi, a post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, and the Department of Technical Chemistry, Technischen Universität Wien, Austria. Dr. Natalia Manousi will attend ANAKON 2023 held in Vienna, Austria to share her research entitled “Titania-based second-generation fabric phase sorptive extraction media: Synthesis, characterization, and preliminary evaluation of their performance”.

As the awardee, she will receive an honorarium of CHF 800 and a certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner on her accomplishments.

Frank L. Dorman
Editor-in-Chief, Separations

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Separations 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Separations Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Separations. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Balawanthrao Jadhav
Analytical Chemistry, South Dakota State University, USA
Research Interests: extraction; accelerated solvent extraction; gas chromatography–mass spectrometry; analytical method development; chromatography; high-performance liquid chromatography; H1 NMR; FTIR analysis; TGA/DSC; UV spectrophotometer; DSC—differential scanning calorimetry

Dr. Łukasz Dąbrowski
Department of Food Analysis and Environmental Protection, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland
Research Interests: GC/MS analysis; sample preparation; organic pollutants; pesticides; environmental analysis; food analysis; extraction techniques; chromatography; mass spectrometry; HPLC

Dr. Sidi Zhu
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China
Research Interests: adsorption; water treatment; separation and purification; interface science; nanomaterials

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 400;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Separations in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Separations Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Separations, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Separations 2022 Travel Award.

The award has been granted to Dr. Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, a postdoctoral fellow at Advanced Membrane Technology Research Centre (AMTEC), Faculty of Petroleum and Renewable Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia, Malaysia.

As the awardee, Dr. Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan will receive a prize of CHF 800 and a certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were incredibly challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I would also like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Frank L. Dorman
Editor-in-Chief, Separations

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Separations 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Separations were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.

Review:
Metal-Organic Frameworks in Bioanalysis: Extraction of Small Organic Molecules
By Natalia Manousi, Orfeas-Evangelos Plastiras, Natasa P. Kalogiouri, Constantinos K. Zacharis and George A. Zachariadis
Separations 2021, 8(5), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/separations8050060

Article:
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction, Antioxidant Activity, and Fatty Acid Composition of Bran Oil from Rice Varieties Cultivated in Portugal
By Tânia I. Pinto, José A. Coelho, Bruna I. Pires, Nuno R. Neng, José M. Nogueira, João C. Bordado and José P. Sardinha
Separations 2021, 8(8), 115; https://doi.org/10.3390/separations8080115

Each winner will receive CHF 400 and a certificate.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Separations 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Separations.

Kind regards,
Separations Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Separations 2021 Highly Cited Paper Award. All papers published between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2020 in Separations were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Associate Editor, Prof. Dr. Victoria Samanidou, have been selected.

Recent Advances in Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvents for Extraction
by Amos K. Dwamena
Separations 2019, 6(1), 9; doi:10.3390/separations6010009

Metal–Organic Frameworks as Key Materials for Solid-Phase Microextraction Devices—A Review
by Adrián Gutiérrez-Serpa, Idaira Pacheco-Fernández, Jorge Pasán and Verónica Pino
Separations 2019, 6(4), 47; doi:10.3390/separations6040047

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive a prize of CHF 400 and an electronic certificate.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Separations and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Javier Saurina
Section Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to announce the winners of the Separations 2020 Highly Cited Paper Awards to recognize the most highly cited papers in the past two years. The prize started in August 2020 and has been aimed to award two highly cited papers published in Separations.

The following two papers were selected by the award committee consisted of senior scholars from Separations editorial board.

Prize (with 23 citations in 2020, total 51 citations)
Recent Advances in Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvents for Extraction
Amos K. Dwamena
Separations. 2019, 6(1), 9; doi: 10.3390/separations6010009
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2297-8739/6/1/9

Prize (with 13 citations in 2020, total 20 citations)
Chromatographic Techniques in the Research Area of Lithium Ion Batteries: Current State-of-the-Art
Yannick Philipp Stenzel,Fabian Horsthemke, Martin Winter and Sascha Nowak
Separations. 2019, 6(2), 26; doi: 10.3390/separations6020026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2297-8739/6/2/26

These two outstanding papers are valuable contributions to Separations. On behalf of the Editorial Board and Editorial Office, we would like to congratulate these two teams for their excellent work. In recognition of their accomplishment, each team will be awarded 400 CHF, a certificate, and option to publish one paper free of charge in Separations after peer review before the end of June 2022.

Dear Colleagues, 

As Associate Editor of Separations, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Separations Travel Award for 2020–2021. 

The award has been granted to Mr. Christoph Gstoettner, a PhD student enrolled in a Marie Curie Horizon 2020 Fellowship called Analytics for Biologics (A4B). Gstoettner’s focus is on developing new mass spectrometric-based techniques for an in-depth characterization of biopharmaceuticals. 

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I congratulate the winner on his accomplishments. 

Prof. Dr. Victoria Samanidou
Associate Editor, Separations

 

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to announce the winners of the Separations 2019 Highly Cited Paper Awards to recognize the most highly cited papers in the past two years. The prize started in August 2020 and has been awarded to two winners since then.

Two papers have been selected for these awards assessed by the Editorial Office of Separations from the papers published in 2017 and 2018. The paper citation data are based on citations in Web of Science in 2019.

Prize (with 20 citations in 2019, total 42 citations)
Recent Trends in Microextraction Techniques Employed in Analytical and Bioanalytical Sample Preparation
Abuzar Kabir, Marcello Locatelli and Halil Ibrahim Ulusoy
Separations. 2017, 4, 36; doi: 10.3390/separations4040036
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2297-8739/4/4/36


Prize (with 14 citations in 2019, total 24 citations)
Fabric Phase Sorptive Extraction Explained
Abuzar Kabir, Rodolfo Mesa, Jessica Jurmain and Kenneth G. Furton
Separations. 2017, 4, 21; doi: 10.3390/separations4020021
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2297-8739/4/2/21


These two outstanding papers are valuable contributions to Separations. On behalf of the Editorial Board and Editorial Office, we would like to congratulate these two teams for their excellent work. In recognition of their accomplishment, each team will be awarded 400 CHF and a certificate.

Dear Colleagues,
The Separations Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Separations. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referee has been selected to receive the “Separations 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of her reviews in 2018 and 2019.

Rosa Herráez Hernández
University of Valencia, Spain

We are pleased to announce that the following papers were selected as the winners of Separations Best Paper Award 2019 from all papers published between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2018:

An Alternative Use of Olive Pomace as a Wide-Ranging Bioremediation Strategy to Adsorb and Recover Disperse Orange and Disperse Red Industrial Dyes from Wastewater
Vito Rizzi, Francesco D’Agostino, Jennifer Gubitosa, Paola Fini, Andrea Petrella, Angela Agostiano, Paola Semeraro and Pinalysa Cosma
Separations 2017, 4, 29; doi:10.3390/separations4040029
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2297-8739/4/4/29

Carbon-Based Nanomaterials Functionalized with Ionic Liquids for Microextraction in Sample Preparation
Theodoros Chatzimitakos and Constantine Stalikas
Separations 2017, 4, 14; doi:10.3390/separations4020014
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2297-8739/4/2/14

We considered the above papers to represent a valuable contribution to Separations and the scientific literature. We congratulate and thank the authors for having chosen Separations to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will collectively receive the privilege of publishing an additional paper free of charge in open access format in Separations after the standard peer review procedure. A cash award of 500 CHF will also be awarded for the winning of research article.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Separations, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Separations Travel Award:

Belen Gonzalez-Gaya, a post-doctoral fellow at Plentzia Marine Station of EHU/UPV (University of the Basque Country), whose research focused on the development of analytical methodologies intended to study the presence of xenobiotics and metabolites in the milieu. She is planning to present one oral presentation «Fate of atmospheric aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) into the oligotrophic ocean» and three poster presentations «The evaluation and selection of techniques for non-directed analysis of xenobiotics in water using LC-HR-Q-Orbitrap/MS», «Non-targeted analysis of xenobiotics in fish muscle», and «Effect-directed analysis of contaminants of emerging concern in hospital effluents» at the SETAC Europe 2019 that will take place in May 2019 in Helsinki, Finland. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend this conference. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Gonzalez-Gaya on her award!

Frank L. Dorman,
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Separations, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Separations Travel Award:

Pierre-Hugues Stefanuto, postdoc fellow at Dartmouth College, whose research focuses on the development of comprehensive two-dimensional GC (GC×GC) coupled both to low and high resolution mass spectrometry (LR(HR)TOFMS) methods for the analyses of volatile organic compounds. He is planning to present his oral presentation «Identifying novel biomarkers for the rapid diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis using GC×GC-TOFMS» and poster presentation «Identifying infectious agents from lung transplant patients using GC×GC-TOFMS» at the 41th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and 14th GC×GC Symposium. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend this conference. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Stefanuto on his award!

Frank L. Dorman,
Editor-in-Chief