Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Agriculture 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 in Agriculture were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Les Copeland, have been selected.

One Review:

Mortierella Species as the Plant Growth-Promoting Fungi Present in the Agricultural Soils
By Ewa Ozimek and Agnieszka Hanaka
Agriculture 2021, 11(1), 7; doi:10.3390/agriculture11010007

One Article:

ANN-Based Continual Classification in Agriculture
By Yang Li and Xuewei Chao
Agriculture 2020, 10(5), 178; doi:10.3390/agriculture10050178

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 800 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Agriculture in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Agriculture, and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Les Copeland, Agriculture

 
Agriculture 2020 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Agriculture will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

30 pages, 3978 KB  
Review
Phosphorus-Solubilizing Microorganisms: A Key to Sustainable Agriculture
by Leandro Israel da Silva, Marlon Correa Pereira, André Mundstock Xavier de Carvalho, Victor Hugo Buttrós, Moacir Pasqual and Joyce Dória
Agriculture 2023, 13(2), 462; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13020462 - 15 Feb 2023
12 pages, 1622 KB  
Article
Microplastic Pollution in EU Farmland Soils: Preliminary Findings from Agricultural Soils (Southwestern Poland)
by Agnieszka Medyńska-Juraszek and Anna Szczepańska
Agriculture 2023, 13(9), 1733; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13091733 - 1 Sep 2023

Award Committee

Prof. Les Copeland Chairperson
University of Sydney
Dr. Shixiang Yao
Dr. Luca Vitale
National Research Council of Italy
Prof. Dr. Rodomiro Ortiz
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Winner

30 pages, 2563 KB  
Article
Reconnecting Farmers with Nature through Agroecological Transitions: Interacting Niches and Experimentation and the Role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems
by Cynthia Giagnocavo, Miguel de Cara-García, Mónica González, Melchor Juan, José Ignacio Marín-Guirao, Sepide Mehrabi, Estefanía Rodríguez, Jan van der Blom and Eduardo Crisol-Martínez
Agriculture 2022, 12(2), 137; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12020137 - 20 Jan 2022
27 pages, 1399 KB  
Review
Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Plant Agriculture: A One Health Perspective
by Sally A. Miller, Jorge Pinto Ferreira and Jeffrey T. LeJeune
Agriculture 2022, 12(2), 289; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12020289 - 17 Feb 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Les Copeland Chairperson
University of Sydney
Dr. Caiyun Lu
China Agricultural University
Prof. Manuel Ângelo Rosa Rodrigues
Prof. Roberto Mancinelli
University of Tuscia
Dr. Athanasios Koukounaras
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Winner

Nahina Islam
18 pages, 2363 KB  
Review
Review on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Applied to Plant Leaf Disease Classification
by Jinzhu Lu, Lijuan Tan and Huanyu Jiang
Agriculture 2021, 11(8), 707; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11080707 - 27 Jul 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Les Copeland Chairperson
University of Sydney

Winner

Yang Li
Ewa Ozimek

Award Committee

Prof. Les Copeland Chairperson
University of Sydney

Winner

Niko Viljanen
Department of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Geodeetinrinne 2, 02430 Masala, Finland paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/8/5/70
Kathleen Araújo
1. Department of Technology and Society, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/7/4/32
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