Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Paper Award
Celebrating the exceptional work published in Nanoscale Horizons.
Details
| Status | Open |
|---|---|
| Nominations opening date | 01 January 2025 |
| Nominations closing date | 31 December 2025 |
| Career stage | All career stages |
About Nanoscale Horizons
Nanoscale Horizons is a leading journal for the publication of exceptionally high-quality, innovative nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Winners
It gives us great pleasure to introduce the winners of our 2024 Outstanding Paper Award in this Editorial.
With the high calibre of the articles we published throughout 2024, it was a difficult choice for our Editorial and Advisory Board to select winners from the shortlist, which was reflected in our scoring with many articles in contention for recognition across a range of research themes and a very close final outcome. Nonetheless, we are delighted to introduce our Outstanding Article winner and runner up, as well as our Outstanding Review of 2024.
Please join us in congratulating our winners; we hope you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.
It gives us great pleasure to introduce the winners of our 2023 Outstanding Paper Award in this Editorial.
With the high calibre of the articles we published throughout 2023, it was a difficult choice for our Editorial and Advisory Board to select winners from the shortlist, with many of our board members commenting during the selection process that it was tough to rank the articles with so many excellent papers in the running! This was reflected in our scoring, with lots of articles in contention for recognition across a range of research themes and a very close final outcome. Nonetheless, we are delighted to introduce our Outstanding Article winner and runner up, as well as our Outstanding Review of 2023.
This year’s Outstanding Review was described by our board as a very timely overview of memristor-based neural networks, with major potential applications and high expected impact in its field. The Outstanding Article winner was celebrated as an excellent addition to the extracellular vesicle (EV) field, a top-quality article with broad novelty and future impact on EV research. Our Outstanding Article runner up showcases quantitative science at the cutting edge of nanoscience and chemistry with a well-designed molecular system, superb fabrication and quality imaging.
It gives us great pleasure to introduce the winners of our 2022 Outstanding Paper Award in this Editorial.
With the high calibre of the articles we published throughout 2022, it was a difficult choice for our Editorial and Advisory Boards to select winners from the shortlist. Nonetheless, we are delighted to introduce our Outstanding Communication winner and runner-up, as well as our Outstanding Review of 2022.
Please join us in congratulating our winners; we hope you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.
We are delighted to introduce the winners of our 2021 Outstanding Paper Award in this Editorial.
The quality of the articles we published throughout 2021 was excellent, with two communications identified as equally exceptional during our selection process. As such, we will be jointly giving our Outstanding Paper Award to two communications for 2021, in addition to an Outstanding Review.
Please join us in congratulating our winners; we hope you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.
We are delighted to introduce the winners of our 2020 Outstanding Paper Award in this Editorial.
As in previous years, the quality of the articles we published throughout 2020 was excellent, and therefore we have chosen to award not only our most Outstanding Paper but also a runner-up and an Outstanding Review for 2020.
Please join us in congratulating our winners; we hope you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.
Overview of award
In order to recognize some of the outstanding work published in the journal, as well as the authors behind those articles, we annually award a Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Paper Award. The prizes recognise the contributions of all authors and celebrate these exceptional publications.
Each year, we look back at the exceptionally high quality and innovative nanoscience published during the previous calendar year and put together a shortlist of articles using a variety of metrics including article downloads, Altmetric score, and citations. The shortlist is reviewed by the journal's Editorial and Advisory Board members based on the science presented and its potential future impact.
Guidelines for candidates
Find out who is eligible for this award, about the assessment process and selection panel.
To be eligible to receive a Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Paper Award you must have published an article in the journal in the previous calendar year. All submissions will be subject to initial assessment and peer review as appropriate according to the journal’s guidelines.
The editorial team draw up a shortlist of papers based on a variety of metrics including article downloads, Altmetric score, and citations. You can find more details of the process in the editorial from our inaugural awards
Winner(s) are selected by the Nanoscale Horizons Editorial and Advisory Boards.