Announcing the 2024 MDPI Topics Award—Honoring the Top Editorial Teams

We are delighted to announce the 2024 MDPI Topics Award. This award aims to recognize the exceptional contributions made by Topic Editor teams who have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the scientific community through their support of our rigorous editorial processes and their efforts in curating high-quality, multidisciplinary content for MDPI Topics.

All Topics that conclude in 2024 are eligible for this award. The selection of award recipients will be conducted by the MDPI Topics Subject Editors.

Topics, which are collections of papers that concentrate on specific multidisciplinary topics in two or more MDPI journals., allow authors from different research areas to unite around one theme, describe multidisciplinary applications, and develop new ideas. MDPI Topics offer an alternative way to present your research, across multiple journals and disciplines, thereby enabling a collaborative and versatile research environment.

What are the prerequisites to be eligible for this award?
MDPI Topics with submission deadlines in 2024 are automatically eligible for this award.

Evaluation criteria of topics:

Article-level impact metrics;
Author-level impact metrics;
Subject novelty and coverage of the Topics.

What will the five winners receive?
There will be five winners this year, and each Topic Editor team will receive the following:

A monetary award of CHF 1500;
A certificate of recognition.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced on 31 October 2025 on the MDPI Topics website.