Best Paper Awards

The EURASIP Best Paper Awards (BPA) are given by the EURASIP BoD at the annual EUSIPCO conference to the most relevant contributions published in the Journals sponsored by EURASIP, according to the average number of papers published per year (this number should be calculated by averaging over a window of 4 years):

# 1-50:   no award assigned;

# 51-100:   1 award every two years;

# > 100:   1 award per year.

The papers to be considered for the awards assigned in year x (and presented in EUSIPCO of year x) should have been published within a 4-year time window that goes from x-5 to x-2, extremes included.

The steps of the selection process are briefly the following:

1. First, there is a pre-selection phase that is carried out by the EiC of the journal and the EURASIP Director for Awards.  The initial list consists of the most cited papers plus any papers nominated by the EiC and the Associate Editors as well as any other member of the community.  This initial list is pre-screened to exclude papers that are not eligible for awards, according to EURASIP rules (i.e., review or tutorial papers, papers co-authored by EURASIP BoD members or Award Committee members, and papers previously awarded by EURASIP).
   • Nominations can be sent to awards@eurasip.org
2. In the sequel, a short list is formed taking into account the following criteria: i) the number of citations; ii) the number of downloads iii) if available, the evaluations of members of the editorial boards, including the guest editors of the special issues. 
3. In the case of the multidisciplinary journals (i.e. SP and JASP), the EURASIP Technical Area Committees (TAC) are invited to identify and propose, for each journal, one paper that deserves an award and which, preferably, lies within the field of the TAC.  The papers proposed by the TACs can be out of the pre-screened list.   Note that in case a TAC nominates a paper in which one or more of the co-authors are members of the TAC, then this nomination must be well documented, otherwise it may be considered as a “conflict of interest”.  
4. Then, the papers of the short list are sent to BPA Committee members (one Committee for each journal). 
   • The Evaluation Committees of the different journals are selected by the EURASIP Director of Awards (based on proposals by the journals’ Editors-in-Chief, the BoD members and the TACs) and they are composed by at least four members. These members are typically selected among Special Issues guest editors, members of the journals’ Editorial Boards, and reviewers of the journals. The Evaluation Committees membership can be renewed up to a max. of three years.
   • Each Committee member scores the short-listed papers according to the following evaluation criteria:Relevance of the topic 
     • Quality of the technical content
     • Style of the presentation 
     • Originality
5. Based on the scores of the BPA Committee members, the EURASIP Director for Awards and the EiC submit a proposal to the EURASIP BoD which, in turn, makes the final decision.