Best Paper Award

Symmetry established the Best Paper Award to recognize its best published articles. The prize started in 2015 and since 2019 it has been awarded in two categories:

Best Original Research Article and Best Review Paper.

Two review and four research articles are selected for this award. Among those winners, one review and two research articles are selected to grant bonus based on the award class:

Best Review Award: 300 CHF
Symmetries in Classical and Quantum Treatment of Einstein’s Cosmological Equations and Mini-Superspace Actions
Theodosios Christodoulakis *, Alexandros Karagiorgos, Adamantia Zampeli
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/3/70

Best Research Article Award: 500 CHF
The Recalculation of the Weights of Criteria in MCDM Methods Using the Bayes Approach
Irina Vinogradova *, Valentinas Podvezko, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/6/205

Models for Green Supplier Selection with Some 2-Tuple Linguistic Neutrosophic Number Bonferroni Mean Operators
Jie Wang, Guiwu Wei *, Yu Wei *
Available online: https://doi.org/10.3390/sym10050131

One review and two research articles receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Symmetry, after the normal peer-review procedure. 

Symmetries of Differential Equations in Cosmology
Michael Tsamparlis *, Andronikos Paliathanasis
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/7/233

The Asymmetry is Derived from Mechanical Interlocking of Achiral Axle and Achiral Ring Components –Syntheses and Properties of Optically Pure [2]Rotaxanes–
Keiji Hirose *, Masaya Ukimi, Shota Ueda, Chie Onoda, Ryohei Kano, Kyosuke Tsuda, Yuko Hinohara,  Yoshito Tobe
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/1/20

The Spatial Homeostasis Hypothesis
Oleg Epstein
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/4/103

We congratulate the winners for their significant contributions and thank them for choosing to publish their best work in Symmetry.

 

 
Symmetry 2018 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Symmetry will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

15 pages, 1071 KiB  
Article
TCAN-IDS: Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Vehicle Using Temporal Convolutional Attention Network
by Pengzhou Cheng, Kai Xu, Simin Li and Mu Han
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 310; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020310 - 3 Feb 2022
62 pages, 6768 KiB  
Article
Neutron Stars with Baryon Number Violation, Probing Dark Sectors
by Jeffrey M. Berryman, Susan Gardner and Mohammadreza Zakeri
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 518; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030518 - 2 Mar 2022
27 pages, 5203 KiB  
Review
Functional Chirality: From Small Molecules to Supramolecular Assemblies
by Alaa Adawy
Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 292; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020292 - 1 Feb 2022
18 pages, 1377 KiB  
Review
Why Sports Should Embrace Bilateral Asymmetry: A Narrative Review
by José Afonso, Javier Peña, Mário Sá, Adam Virgile, Antonio García-de-Alcaraz and Chris Bishop
Symmetry 2022, 14(10), 1993; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14101993 - 23 Sep 2022

Award Committee

Dr. Sergey Odintsov Chairman
ICE and ICREA, Barcelona
Dr. Calogero Vetro
Prof. Dr. György Keglevich
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dr. Vasilis Oikonomou

Winner

14 pages, 261 KiB  
Article
General Fractional Integrals and Derivatives of Arbitrary Order
by Yuri Luchko
Symmetry 2021, 13(5), 755; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13050755 - 27 Apr 2021
22 pages, 1051 KiB  
Article
Higgs and BSM Physics at the Future Muon Collider
by Roberto Franceschini and Mario Greco
Symmetry 2021, 13(5), 851; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13050851 - 11 May 2021
26 pages, 2979 KiB  
Review
Nanofluids for the Next Generation Thermal Management of Electronics: A Review
by Ana Moita, António Moreira and José Pereira
Symmetry 2021, 13(8), 1362; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13081362 - 27 Jul 2021
60 pages, 2068 KiB  
Review
Collider Searches for Dark Matter through the Higgs Lens
by Spyros Argyropoulos, Oleg Brandt and Ulrich Haisch
Symmetry 2021, 13(12), 2406; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122406 - 13 Dec 2021

Award Committee

Dr. Sergey Odintsov Chairman
ICE and ICREA, Barcelona

Winner

56 pages, 2440 KiB  
Article
Are MCDA Methods Benchmarkable? A Comparative Study of TOPSIS, VIKOR, COPRAS, and PROMETHEE II Methods
by Wojciech Sałabun, Jarosław Wątróbski and Andrii Shekhovtsov
Symmetry 2020, 12(9), 1549; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12091549 - 20 Sep 2020
35 pages, 2694 KiB  
Article
Empirical Consequences of Emergent Mass
by Craig D. Roberts
Symmetry 2020, 12(9), 1468; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12091468 - 7 Sep 2020
73 pages, 8657 KiB  
Review
On the Remarkable Superconductivity of FeSe and Its Close Cousins
by Andreas Kreisel, Peter J. Hirschfeld and Brian M. Andersen
Symmetry 2020, 12(9), 1402; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12091402 - 23 Aug 2020
12 pages, 270 KiB  
Review
Bilaterally Symmetrical: To Be or Not to Be?
by Michael C. Corballis
Symmetry 2020, 12(3), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12030326 - 25 Feb 2020

Winner

23 pages, 1789 KiB  
Article
CMB Tensions with Low-Redshift H0 and S8 Measurements: Impact of a Redshift-Dependent Type-Ia Supernovae Intrinsic Luminosity
by Matteo Martinelli and Isaac Tutusaus
Symmetry 2019, 11(8), 986; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11080986 - 2 Aug 2019
10 pages, 1495 KiB  
Article
Convenient Asymmetric Synthesis of Fmoc-(S)-6,6,6-Trifluoro-Norleucine
by Haibo Mei, Zizhen Yin, Toshio Miwa, Hiroki Moriwaki, Hidenori Abe, Jianlin Han and Vadim A. Soloshonok
Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 578; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11040578 - 21 Apr 2019
46 pages, 594 KiB  
Article
Hadronic and Hadron-Like Physics of Dark Matter
by Vitaly Beylin, Maxim Yu. Khlopov, Vladimir Kuksa and Nikolay Volchanskiy
Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 587; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11040587 - 23 Apr 2019
20 pages, 3398 KiB  
Review
Role of Asymmetric Autocatalysis in the Elucidation of Origins of Homochirality of Organic Compounds
by Kenso Soai, Tsuneomi Kawasaki and Arimasa Matsumoto
Symmetry 2019, 11(5), 694; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11050694 - 20 May 2019

Winner

17 pages, 273 KiB  
Review
Symmetries in Classical and Quantum Treatment of Einstein’s Cosmological Equations and Mini-Superspace Actions
by Theodosios Christodoulakis, Alexandros Karagiorgos and Adamantia Zampeli
Symmetry 2018, 10(3), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym10030070 - 16 Mar 2018
18 pages, 678 KiB  
Article
The Recalculation of the Weights of Criteria in MCDM Methods Using the Bayes Approach
by Irina Vinogradova, Valentinas Podvezko and Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas
Symmetry 2018, 10(6), 205; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym10060205 - 7 Jun 2018

Winner

Choong Sun Kim
Department of Physics and IPAP, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/7/2/726
Kazuharu Bamba
" Leading Graduate School Promotion Center, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan/Department of Physics, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan"
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