Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Universe 2024 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Universe in 2023. One review and one research article will each receive an award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal’s Award Committee, led by its Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Iorio.

Eligibility for the Award
– Papers published in Universe in 2023;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria
The papers will be selected by the journal’s Award Committee according to the following 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.

The Prize
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Universe in 2025 after peer review;
– One research article award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Universe in 2025 after peer review;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal’s website in June 2025.

Kind regards,
Universe Editorial Office

 
Universe 2024 Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 30 June 2025

Eligibility and Requirements

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

Winner

50 pages, 3243 KiB  
Review
PBH Formation from Spherically Symmetric Hydrodynamical Perturbations: A Review
by Albert Escrivà
Universe 2022, 8(2), 66; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8020066 - 21 Jan 2022
12 pages, 271 KiB  
Article
Quantum Clones inside Black Holes
by Gerard ’t Hooft
Universe 2022, 8(10), 537; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8100537 - 18 Oct 2022

Award Committee

Dr. Lorenzo Iorio Chairman
MIUR
Prof. Kazuharu Bamba
Fukushima University
Dr. Roman Pasechnik
Lund university
Prof. Gerald Cleaver
Baylor University

Winner

39 pages, 11834 KiB  
Review
Progress in Constraining Nuclear Symmetry Energy Using Neutron Star Observables Since GW170817
by Bao-An Li, Bao-Jun Cai, Wen-Jie Xie and Nai-Bo Zhang
Universe 2021, 7(6), 182; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe7060182 - 04 Jun 2021
68 pages, 9866 KiB  
Article
The Clustering Dynamics of Primordial Black Holes in N-Body Simulations
by Manuel Trashorras, Juan García-Bellido and Savvas Nesseris
Universe 2021, 7(1), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe7010018 - 15 Jan 2021

Winner

Gonzalo J. Olmo and Diego Rubiera-Garcia
Departamento de Física Teórica and IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia - CSIC. Universidadde Valencia, Burjassot-46100, Valencia, Spain
Ram Gopal Vishwakarma and Jayant V. Narlikar
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007, India
João Magueijo
Theoretical Physics Group, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Rd., London SW7 2BZ, UK
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LAM, 13013 Marseille, France
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