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Best Paper Award

Thank you for your continuous support. We regret to inform you that the deadline for announcing the winner of the Drones Best Paper Award has been postponed to 30 June 2025.

The editorial office would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.


Drones Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose two articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of June.

The Prize:

– One research article and one review will be selected;
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees that is valid for one year.

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Drones Best Paper Award

Winners announced

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in the Drones will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).

Selection Criteria

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

Past Winners

Winner
Award Committee
  • Diego Gonzalez-Aguilera avatar imageDiego Gonzalez-Aguilera
    Diego Gonzalez-Aguilera
    Chairman
    University of Salamanca
  • YangQuan Chen avatar imageYangQuan Chen
    YangQuan Chen
    University of California Merced
  • Francesco Nex avatar imageFrancesco Nex
    Francesco Nex
  • Petros S. Bithas avatar imagePetros S. Bithas
    Petros S. Bithas
    Digital IndustryTechnologies Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Oleg Yakimenko avatar imageOleg Yakimenko
    Oleg Yakimenko
    Naval Postgraduate School
  • Fei Liu avatar imageFei Liu
    Fei Liu
    Zhejiang University
  • Abdessattar Abdelkefi avatar imageAbdessattar Abdelkefi
    Abdessattar Abdelkefi
    New Mexico State University

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