Entropy 2022, 24(5), 601; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24050601 - 26 Apr 2022
Best Paper Award
Entropy Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose five 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:
– Four research articles and one review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year.
Entropy Best Paper Award
Winner announcement: 30 June 2025
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Entropy 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
Year:
Winner
Metacognition as a Consequence of Competing Evolutionary Time Scales
Quantum Coherences and Classical Inhomogeneities as Equivalent Thermodynamics Resources
Entropy 2022, 24(4), 474; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24040474 - 29 Mar 2022
Power-Optimal Control of a Stirling Engine’s Frictional Piston Motion
Entropy 2022, 24(3), 362; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24030362 - 3 Mar 2022
Recasting the (Synchrosqueezed) Short-Time Fourier Transform as an Instantaneous Spectrum
Entropy 2022, 24(4), 518; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24040518 - 6 Apr 2022
The Free Energy Principle for Perception and Action: A Deep Learning Perspective
Entropy 2022, 24(2), 301; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24020301 - 21 Feb 2022
Award Committee
Dr. Kevin Knuth
Chairman
(Home Address)
Prof. Nikolay K Vitanov
Prof. Syed Jafar
Dr. Carlo Cafaro
University at Albany-SUNY
Dr. Udo Von Toussaint
Max-Planck-Insitut for Plasmaphysics
Prof. Geert Verdoolaege
Ghent University
Prof. Lamberto Rondoni
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. GuiLu Long
Dr. Antonio Maria Scarfone
ISC-CNR - Politecnico di Torino
Dr. Jean-Noël Jaubert
Université de Lorraine
Dr. Yasar Demirel
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Prof. Carlos Mejía-Monasterio
School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engineering / Technical University of Madrid
Prof. Miguel Rubi
University of Barcelona, Faculty of Physics
Prof. Matteo Convertino
Tsinghua University
Winner
High-Entropy Alloys for Advanced Nuclear Applications
Entropy 2021, 23(1), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23010098 - 11 Jan 2021
A Technical Critique of Some Parts of the Free Energy Principle
Entropy 2021, 23(3), 293; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23030293 - 27 Feb 2021
Stochastic Chaos and Markov Blankets
Entropy 2021, 23(9), 1220; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23091220 - 17 Sep 2021
Probability Representation of Quantum States
Entropy 2021, 23(5), 549; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23050549 - 29 Apr 2021
Thermodynamic Efficiency of Interactions in Self-Organizing Systems
Entropy 2021, 23(6), 757; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23060757 - 16 Jun 2021
Winner
Thermodynamics in Ecology—An Introductory Review
Entropy 2020, 22(8), 820; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22080820 - 27 Jul 2020
The Role of Entropy in the Development of Economics
Entropy 2020, 22(4), 452; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22040452 - 16 Apr 2020
Large Deviations for Continuous Time Random Walks
Entropy 2020, 22(6), 697; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22060697 - 22 Jun 2020
Thermodynamics at Very Long Time and Space Scales
Entropy 2020, 22(10), 1090; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101090 - 28 Sep 2020
Geometric Optimisation of Quantum Thermodynamic Processes
Entropy 2020, 22(10), 1076; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101076 - 24 Sep 2020
Winner
Nonlinear Information Bottleneck
Entropy 2019, 21(12), 1181; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21121181 - 30 Nov 2019
Dynamic Maximum Entropy Reduction
Entropy 2019, 21(7), 715; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21070715 - 22 Jul 2019
Topological Information Data Analysis
Entropy 2019, 21(9), 869; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21090869 - 6 Sep 2019
Award Committee
Dr. Kevin Knuth
Chairman
(Home Address)
Winner
Levitated Nanoparticles for Microscopic Thermodynamics—A Review
Entropy 2018, 20(5), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20050326 - 28 Apr 2018
Transductive Feature Selection Using Clustering-Based Sample Entropy for Temperature Prediction in Weather Forecasting
Entropy 2018, 20(4), 264; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20040264 - 10 Apr 2018
Pointwise Partial Information Decomposition Using the Specificity and Ambiguity Lattices
Entropy 2018, 20(4), 297; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20040297 - 18 Apr 2018
Winner
Critical Behavior in Physics and Probabilistic Formal Languages
Entropy 2017, 19(7), 299; https://doi.org/10.3390/e19070299 - 23 Jun 2017
Multiscale Information Decomposition: Exact Computation for Multivariate Gaussian Processes
Entropy 2017, 19(8), 408; https://doi.org/10.3390/e19080408 - 8 Aug 2017
