Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Urban Science 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Urban Science were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, one winner was selected.

Evaluating the Accuracy of Gridded Population Estimates in Slums: A Case Study in Nigeria and Kenya
By Dana R. Thomson, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forrest R. Stevens, Gregory Yetman, Peter Elias and Robert Chen
Urban Sci. 2021, 5(2), 48; doi:10.3390/urbansci5020048

The winner will receive CHF 300 and the chance to publish a free paper in Urban Science in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winner of the Urban Science 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Urban Science.

Kind regards,
Urban Science Editorial Office

 

 
Urban Science 2021 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

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

Winner

35 pages, 3815 KiB  
Article
What Happens in Your Brain When You Walk Down the Street? Implications of Architectural Proportions, Biophilia, and Fractal Geometry for Urban Science
by Aenne A. Brielmann, Nir H. Buras, Nikos A. Salingaros and Richard P. Taylor
Urban Sci. 2022, 6(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6010003 - 7 Jan 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Luis Hernández-Callejo Chairman
Universidad de Valladolid
Dr. Aya Hagishima
Kyushu University
Dr. Yu-Sheng Shen
Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Mst Santamouris
UNSW

Winner

32 pages, 24723 KiB  
Article
Evaluating the Accuracy of Gridded Population Estimates in Slums: A Case Study in Nigeria and Kenya
by Dana R. Thomson, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forrest R. Stevens, Gregory Yetman, Peter Elias and Robert Chen
Urban Sci. 2021, 5(2), 48; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5020048 - 20 Jun 2021

Winner

Bradley Bereitschaft
Department of Geography/Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA
Back to TopTop