Best Paper Award

The Information Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members will choose two articles of exceptional quality published in the journal the year before last and announce the winners online by the end of June.

The Prize:
– Two papers will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year.

 
Information Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 30 June 2025

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Information are 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

17 pages, 1739 KiB  
Article
Local Multi-Head Channel Self-Attention for Facial Expression Recognition
by Roberto Pecoraro, Valerio Basile and Viviana Bono
Information 2022, 13(9), 419; https://doi.org/10.3390/info13090419 - 6 Sep 2022
19 pages, 2045 KiB  
Review
A Review of Knowledge Graph Completion
by Mohamad Zamini, Hassan Reza and Minou Rabiei
Information 2022, 13(8), 396; https://doi.org/10.3390/info13080396 - 21 Aug 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo Chairman
University of Wollongong
Prof. Emilio Matricciani
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Zahir Hussain

Winner

32 pages, 1151 KiB  
Review
Identifying Fake News on Social Networks Based on Natural Language Processing: Trends and Challenges
by Nicollas R. de Oliveira, Pedro S. Pisa, Martin Andreoni Lopez, Dianne Scherly V. de Medeiros and Diogo M. F. Mattos
Information 2021, 12(1), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/info12010038 - 18 Jan 2021
26 pages, 5939 KiB  
Article
An Ambient Intelligence-Based Human Behavior Monitoring Framework for Ubiquitous Environments
by Nirmalya Thakur and Chia Y. Han
Information 2021, 12(2), 81; https://doi.org/10.3390/info12020081 - 14 Feb 2021

Winner

Jeremy Howard
Data Science Institute, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080, USA
Klaus Bengler
Chair of Ergonomics, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748 Garching, Germany

Winner

Kamran Kowsari
Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Maria Rizzi
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, via E. Orabona, 4 – 70125 Bari, Italy

Winner

Giuseppe Pirlo
Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Bari, Italy paper link:https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/10/247
Abdullah-Al Nahid
School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/1/19
James Birt
Information and Computing Sciences, Bond University paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/2/31
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