The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The Editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on criteria such as scientific merit, overall impact, and the quality of presentation.

We are honored to present the winners in 2022 in the social sciences, arts and humanities category, who were selected amongst the extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Administrative Sciences:

• “Where Does CSR Come from and Where Does It Go? A Review of the State of the Art”
  by Sara Rodriguez-Gomez, Maria Lourdes Arco-Castro, Maria Victoria Lopez-Perez and Lazaro Rodríguez-Ariza
  Adm. Sci. 2020, 10(3), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci10030060

• “The Circular Economy Business Model: Examining Consumers’ Acceptance of Recycled Goods”
  by Cristina Calvo-Porral and Jean-Pierre Lévy-Mangin
  Adm. Sci. 2020, 10(2), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci10020028

Behavioral Sciences:

• “Social Cognition and Socioecological Predictors of Home-Based Physical Activity Intentions, Planning, and Habits during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
  by Navin Kaushal, NiCole Keith, Susan Aguiñaga and Martin S. Hagger
  Behav. Sci. 2020, 10(9), 133; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs10090133

Education Sciences:

• “Compassionate Flexibility and Self-Discipline: Student Adaptation to Emergency Remote Teaching in an Integrated Engineering Energy Course during COVID-19”
  by Laura A. Gelles, Susan M. Lord, Gordon D. Hoople, Diana A. Chen and Joel Alejandro Mejia
  Educ. Sci. 2020, 10(11), 304; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci10110304

• “Digital Learning Environments in Higher Education: A Literature Review of the Role of Individual vs. Social Settings for Measuring Learning Outcomes”
  by Elke Kümmel, Johannes Moskaliuk, Ulrike Cress and Joachim Kimmerle
  Educ. Sci. 2020, 10(3), 78; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci10030078

JRFM:

• “Refined Measures of Dynamic Connectedness based on Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressions”
  by Nikolaos Antonakakis, Ioannis Chatziantoniou and David Gabauer
  J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(4), 84; https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm13040084

• “Digitalization of the EU Economies and People at Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion”
  by Aleksy Kwilinski, Oleksandr Vyshnevskyi and Henryk Dzwigol
  J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(7), 142; https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm13070142

• “Assessment of Bankruptcy Risk of Large Companies: European Countries Evolution Analysis”
  by Nicoleta Bărbuță-Mișu and Mara Madaleno
  J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(3), 58; https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm13030058

Genealogy:

• “From National Holiday to Independence Day: Changing Perceptions of the ‘Diada’”
  by Carsten Humlebæk and Mark F. Hau
  Genealogy 2020, 4(1), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4010031

• “Racialized Affectivities of (Un)Belonging: Mixed (Race) Couples in the Shadow of Brexit”
  by Elena Zambelli
  Genealogy 2020, 4(3), 83; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4030083

Risks:

• “Nagging Predictors”
  by Ronald Richman and Mario V. Wüthrich
  Risks 2020, 8(3), 83; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8030083

• “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Distance Driven on the Probability of Car Accidents”
  by Jean-Philippe Boucher and Roxane Turcotte
  Risks 2020, 8(3), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8030091

• “Financial Bubbles: A Study of Co-Explosivity in the Cryptocurrency Market”
  by Arianna Agosto and Alessia Cafferata
  Risks 2020, 8(2), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8020034

• “A Generative Adversarial Network Approach to Calibration of Local Stochastic Volatility Models”
  by Christa Cuchiero, Wahid Khosrawi and Josef Teichmann
  Risks 2020, 8(4), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8040101

• “Machine Learning in Least-Squares Monte Carlo Proxy Modeling of Life Insurance Companies”
  by Anne-Sophie Krah, Zoran Nikolić and Ralf Korn
  Risks 2020, 8(1), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8010021

Urban Science:

• “How Might the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect 21st Century Urban Design, Planning, and Development?”
  by Bradley Bereitschaft and Daniel Scheller
  Urban Sci. 2020, 4(4), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci4040056

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