Best Paper Award

The Universe 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 that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of June.

The Prize:
– One research article and one review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees (valid for one year).

 
Universe Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Universe 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
 
Year: 

Winner

40 pages, 942 KiB  
Article
Running Vacuum in the Universe: Phenomenological Status in Light of the Latest Observations, and Its Impact on the σ8 and H0 Tensions
by Joan Solà Peracaula, Adrià Gómez-Valent, Javier de Cruz Pérez and Cristian Moreno-Pulido
Universe 2023, 9(6), 262; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe9060262 - 30 May 2023
65 pages, 3005 KiB  
Review
Quiescent and Active Galactic Nuclei as Factories of Merging Compact Objects in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
by Manuel Arca Sedda, Smadar Naoz and Bence Kocsis
Universe 2023, 9(3), 138; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe9030138 - 6 Mar 2023

Award Committee

Dr. Lorenzo Iorio Chairman
MIUR
Prof. Dr. Øyvind Geelmuyden. Grøn
College of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Oslo and Akershus University,
Dr. Ioana Duţan
Institute of Space Science

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. Dr. 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 - 4 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
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