Best Paper Award

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Societies Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose 2 papers of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of April.

The Prize:

First prize: One winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Societies before the end of December 2025;
Second prize: One winner will receive CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Societies before the end of December 2025.

Societies Best Paper Award

Winners announced

Eligibility and Requirements

All papers published in Societies 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 uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
Clarity of presentation;
Citations and downloads.

Past Winners

Winner

Concept Paper
40 Citations
19,141 Views
18 Pages
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Using ChatGPT in Education: Human Reflection on ChatGPT’s Self-Reflection
Eugène Loos,
Johanna Gröpler and
Marie-Louise Sophie Goudeau
Societies2023, 13(8), 196;https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13080196
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21 August 2023
ChatGPT is a fascinating AI text generator tool. It is a language model developed by OpenAI, a research and deployment company with the mission, according to OpenAI’s website: “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all o...
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Systematic Review
22 Citations
71,035 Views
27 Pages
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The Impact of Transformational School Leadership on School Staff and School Culture in Primary Schools—A Systematic Review of International Literature
Inez Wilson Heenan,
Derbhile De Paor,
Niamh Lafferty and
Patricia Mannix McNamara
Societies2023, 13(6), 133;https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13060133
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23 May 2023
The purpose of this review is to examine transformational school leadership, responding to the question: ‘What is the research evidence in the international literature pertaining to the impact of transformational school leadership in primary sc...
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Award Committee

Gregor Wolbring
Gregor Wolbring
Chairman
University of Calgary
Sandro Serpa
Sandro Serpa
University of the Azores
Leigh Wilson
Leigh Wilson
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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore