The ISDRS Best Article Award is becoming a pivotal element of rewarding the excellent research work in the field of sustainability and progressing ground-breaking knowledge to public. In 2024 ISDRS will hand out the Best Article Award for the best sustainable development publication of the previous year for the fifth time. The great success of the previous years and the goal to support the visibility of inspiring sustainability researchers encourage the ISDRS board to continue the selection of a Best Article Award this year again.

Are you interested to be part of Jury for the best article award 2023?

We look for volunteers and active members for the Award Jury. The ISDRS jury selects the shortlist of papers for voting from those nominated. The Award Jury reviews the suggested articles based on given criteria and nominates a shortlist of 5 papers: each Jury member reviews a batch of the suggested articles, assessing these on a 1-10 points scale. Each article is assessed by 3 Jury members.

So, we are looking for helpful hands to sever as award jury! Please consider becoming a member of the jury and kindly send your interest to Waqas Mazhar via email (assistant@isdrs.org).

Best Article Award 2023 Nomination

In 2024 ISDRS will hand out the Best Article Award for the best sustainable development publication of the previous year 2023.

So, when reading papers, keep the ISDRS Best Article Award 2023 in mind and please nominate thrilling sustainability papers!

You are all warmly invited to nominate thrilling and ground-breaking sustainability-related articles, published in 2023, according to the following criteria:

1. The article has been published (including online early view versions) in the preceding year in a scientific peer-reviewed journal, accepted by commonly used scientific literature databases (like ISI, Scopus, etc.);
2. The articles should be in English (For the time being we do not have the capacity to assess articles on diverse languages - which might be one option for the future).
3. The content of the article addresses a sustainable development topic with an inter-disciplinary or transdisciplinary perspective;
4. The article makes a well-defined contribution to academic debates and shows awareness of the complex nature of sustainable development;
5. The article offers or at least provides hints for possible solutions to sustainability problems;
6. The article enables positive societal impacts, bridging between science and society.

To submit an article, visit the ISDRS Best Article 2023 page AND click here

The page is open from now to 15/3/2024.

You can also invite friends and colleagues to participate - they only have to register as followers, with no strings attached, to be able to join the nominating and later the voting.

Nomination process

A key element of the process is the ISDRS jury which selects the shortlist of papers for voting from those nominated. The Award Jury reviews the suggested articles briefly and nominates a shortlist of approx. 5 to max. 10 papers: each Jury member reviews a batch of the suggested articles, assessing these on a 1-10 points scale. Each article is assessed by 2 or 3 Jury members.

The nominated articles will be made available on a special website page of the ISDRS homepage, allowing for registration, submission and voting.

The voting will be online, by all members and followers. Each member will be able to select the best article to her opinion, resulting in a ranking of papers.

Time schedule

Thank you for your contribution and your support!

Many best wishes

Marlen Arnold, Jury chair