Best Paper Award

2.5
Impact Factor
5.0
CiteScore
21 days
Submission to First Decision
3 days
Acceptance to Publication

Thank you for your continuous support. We regret to inform you that the deadline for announcing the winner of the Universe Best Paper Award has been postponed to 31 July 2026.

The editorial office would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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 voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)— valid for one year.

Universe Best Paper Award

Winners announced

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

Winner

Article
24 Citations
5,580 Views
31 Pages
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A Critical Discussion on the H₀ Tension
Salvatore Capozziello,
Giuseppe Sarracino and
Giulia De Somma
Universe2024, 10(3), 140;https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10030140
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13 March 2024
A critical discussion on the $H_{0}$ Hubble constant tension is presented by considering both early and late-type observations. From recent precise measurements, discrepancies emerge when comparing results for some cosmological quantities obtained at diff...
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Review
48 Citations
3,798 Views
19 Pages
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Different Aspects of Entropic Cosmology
Shin’ichi Nojiri,
Sergei D. Odintsov and
Tanmoy Paul
Universe2024, 10(9), 352;https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10090352
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3 September 2024
We provide a short review of the recent developments in entropic cosmology based on two thermodynamic laws of the apparent horizon, namely the first and the second laws of thermodynamics. The first law essentially provides the change in entropy of th...
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Award Committee

Lorenzo Iorio
Dr. Lorenzo Iorio
Chairman
MIUR
László Árpád Gergely
Prof. László Árpád Gergely
University of Szeged
Denis Leahy
Prof. Denis Leahy
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Pengfei Chen
Prof. Dr. Pengfei Chen
School of Astronomy & Space Science, Nanjing University
Gerald Cleaver
Prof. Gerald Cleaver
Baylor University
Jaume Haro
Dr. Jaume Haro
UPC
Joan Solà Peracaula
Prof. Dr. Joan Solà Peracaula
Departament FQA, Universitat de Barcelona
Maxim Khlopov
Prof. Dr. Maxim Khlopov
Cosmovia
Júlio César Fabris
Prof. Dr. Júlio César Fabris