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Best Paper Award

Systems Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose two articles of exceptional quality published in the journal the year prior last year and announce them online by the end of March.

The Prize:
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 300;
– A voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)— valid for one year;
– A certificate.

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Systems Best Paper Award

Winner announcement date: 31 March 2026

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Systems 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
Award Committee
  • Paolo Visconti avatar imagePaolo Visconti
    Paolo Visconti
    Chairman
    University of Salento
  • Mitsuru Kodama avatar imageMitsuru Kodama
    Mitsuru Kodama
  • WCWen-Chyuan Chiang
    Wen-Chyuan Chiang
    University of Tulsa
  • Mahyar Amirgholy avatar imageMahyar Amirgholy
    Mahyar Amirgholy
    Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, USA
  • Gandolfo Dominici avatar imageGandolfo Dominici
    Gandolfo Dominici
    University of Palermo
  • Zhou He avatar imageZhou He
    Zhou He
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Edward Pohl avatar imageEdward Pohl
    Edward Pohl
  • Alberto De Marco avatar imageAlberto De Marco
    Alberto De Marco
  • Jinzhi Lu avatar imageJinzhi Lu
    Jinzhi Lu
    jinzhi.lu@epfl.ch
  • Timothy Ferris avatar imageTimothy Ferris
    Timothy Ferris
    Cranfield University
  • Ludovico Minati avatar imageLudovico Minati
    Ludovico Minati
    School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
  • Fernando De La Prieta avatar imageFernando De La Prieta
    Fernando De La Prieta
    University of Salamanca
  • Wayne Wakeland avatar imageWayne Wakeland
    Wayne Wakeland
    Portland State University
  • Alberto Paucar-Caceres avatar imageAlberto Paucar-Caceres
    Alberto Paucar-Caceres
    Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Maurice Yolles avatar imageMaurice Yolles
    Maurice Yolles
    Liverpool John Moores University
  • Sitalakshmi Venkatraman avatar imageSitalakshmi Venkatraman
    Sitalakshmi Venkatraman
    Melbourne Polytechnic
  • Gianfranco Minati avatar imageGianfranco Minati
    Gianfranco Minati
    Italian Systems Society (AIRS)
  • Federico Barnabè avatar imageFederico Barnabè
    Federico Barnabè
    University of Siena
  • Jérôme Morio avatar imageJérôme Morio
    Jérôme Morio
    ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab

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