Best Paper Award

Urban Science Best Paper Award is granted annually to promote publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. Evaluation Committee Members choose one article of exceptional quality that was published in the journal the year before the previous year and announces its success online by the end of June.

The Prize:
– The winner will receive CHF 300, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year.

 
Urban Science Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 30 June 2025

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Urban Science will be eligible (both regular and Special Issue submissions).

Selection Criteria

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– The originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– The creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– The clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

23 pages, 1740 KiB  
Article
Urbanization and Land Use Planning for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Case Study of Greece
by Dimitrios Kalfas, Stavros Kalogiannidis, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis and Ermelinda Toska
Urban Sci. 2023, 7(2), 43; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7020043 - 24 Apr 2023

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Luis Hernández-Callejo Chairman
Universidad de Valladolid
Dr. Francesco Aletta
University College London
Dr. Aya Hagishima
Kyushu University
Dr. Thomas W. Sanchez
Texas A&M University

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
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