Best Article Award Nominations 2023


The ISDRS Best Article Award is becoming a pivotal element of rewarding the excellent research work in the field of sustainability and progressing groundbreaking 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.
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 groundbreaking sustainability-related articles, published in 2023, according to the following criteria:

Criteria

  • 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.);
  • 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).
  • The content of the article addresses a sustainable development topic with an inter-disciplinary or transdisciplinary perspective;
  • The article makes a well-defined contribution to academic debates and shows awareness of the complex nature of sustainable development;
  • The article offers or at least provides hints for possible solutions to sustainability problems;
  • The article enables positive societal impacts, bridging between science and society.

Nomination Process

A key element of the process is the ISDRS jury, which selects the short list 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.
  • For more information and updates, please visit our site.
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.

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

We look for volunteers and active members for the Award Jury. The ISDRS jury selects the shortlisted papers for voting from those nominated.
Please consider becoming a member of the jury and kindly send your interest to Waqas Mazhar via email (assistant@isdrs.org) and cc to Marlen Arnold (marlen.arnold@wiwi.tu-chemnitz.de).

Time Schedule

01/ 2024 - 15/3/2024
Nomination period
16/3/2024 - 13/4/2024
Selection of shortlist by the Award Jury
14/4/2024
Publication of shortlist, invitation to vote on best article
14/4/2024 - 30/4/2024
Voting period for members and followers
20/4/2024 - 10/5/2024
Analysis of the vote, identification of No. 1 to 3 articles
10/5/2024 - 25/5/2024
Inviting the winners to participate at the conference or supply a video, inviting the 1st price winner to prepare for a keynote in next year's conference.
Many best wishes
Marlen Arnold, Jury chair
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