Best Paper Award

Mathematics Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose six 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:

– Six research articles will be selected;
– The First Prize winner will receive CHF 800, the Second Prize winner will receive CHF 500, and the Third Prize winner will receive CHF 300; each winner will receive a certificate and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year.

 
Mathematics Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 30 June 2025

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Mathematics 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

12 pages, 316 KiB  
Article
Practical Exponential Stability of Impulsive Stochastic Food Chain System with Time-Varying Delays
by Yuxiao Zhao and Linshan Wang
Mathematics 2023, 11(1), 147; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11010147 - 28 Dec 2022
41 pages, 23839 KiB  
Review
Survey on Synthetic Data Generation, Evaluation Methods and GANs
by Alvaro Figueira and Bruno Vaz
Mathematics 2022, 10(15), 2733; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10152733 - 2 Aug 2022
28 pages, 532 KiB  
Article
Regression Analysis of Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Structures of Publicly Listed British Firms
by Elmina Homapour, Larry Su, Fabio Caraffini and Francisco Chiclana
Mathematics 2022, 10(7), 1119; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10071119 - 31 Mar 2022
55 pages, 510 KiB  
Article
Fractional Calculus and Time-Fractional Differential Equations: Revisit and Construction of a Theory
by Masahiro Yamamoto
Mathematics 2022, 10(5), 698; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10050698 - 23 Feb 2022
19 pages, 437 KiB  
Review
The Discrete Dipole Approximation: A Review
by Patrick Christian Chaumet
Mathematics 2022, 10(17), 3049; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10173049 - 24 Aug 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Francisco Chiclana Chairman
De Montfort University
Prof. Antonio Di Crescenzo
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Prof. Paolo Mercorelli
Leuphana University of Lueneburg
Prof. Juan Torregrosa
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (ETSI Telecomunicación)
Prof. Dr. Matjaz Perc
University of Maribor
Prof. Daniele Mortari
Texas A&M University

Winner

9 pages, 374 KiB  
Article
Implicit Solitary Waves for One of the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
by Nikolay A. Kudryashov
Mathematics 2021, 9(23), 3024; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9233024 - 25 Nov 2021
17 pages, 311 KiB  
Article
General Fractional Integrals and Derivatives with the Sonine Kernels
by Yuri Luchko
Mathematics 2021, 9(6), 594; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9060594 - 10 Mar 2021
10 pages, 263 KiB  
Article
New General Variants of Chebyshev Type Inequalities via Generalized Fractional Integral Operators
by Ahmet Ocak Akdemir, Saad Ihsan Butt, Muhammad Nadeem and Maria Alessandra Ragusa
Mathematics 2021, 9(2), 122; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9020122 - 7 Jan 2021
37 pages, 1011 KiB  
Article
Statistical Machine Learning in Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Processes
by Zhe Wu, David Rincon, Quanquan Gu and Panagiotis D. Christofides
Mathematics 2021, 9(16), 1912; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9161912 - 11 Aug 2021
40 pages, 643 KiB  
Review
A Guide to Special Functions in Fractional Calculus
by Virginia Kiryakova
Mathematics 2021, 9(1), 106; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9010106 - 5 Jan 2021
20 pages, 3591 KiB  
Article
New Importance Measures Based on Failure Probability in Global Sensitivity Analysis of Reliability
by Zdeněk Kala
Mathematics 2021, 9(19), 2425; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9192425 - 29 Sep 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Francisco Chiclana Chairman
De Montfort University

Winner

11 pages, 282 KiB  
Article
A Regularity Criterion in Weak Spaces to Boussinesq Equations
by Ravi P. Agarwal, Sadek Gala and Maria Alessandra Ragusa
Mathematics 2020, 8(6), 920; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8060920 - 5 Jun 2020
9 pages, 1039 KiB  
Article
Regarding New Wave Patterns of the Newly Extended Nonlinear (2+1)-Dimensional Boussinesq Equation with Fourth Order
by Juan Luis García Guirao, Haci Mehmet Baskonus and Ajay Kumar
Mathematics 2020, 8(3), 341; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8030341 - 4 Mar 2020
25 pages, 1876 KiB  
Article
Elephant Herding Optimization: Variants, Hybrids, and Applications
by Juan Li, Hong Lei, Amir H. Alavi and Gai-Ge Wang
Mathematics 2020, 8(9), 1415; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8091415 - 24 Aug 2020
19 pages, 3336 KiB  
Article
CLSTM: Deep Feature-Based Speech Emotion Recognition Using the Hierarchical ConvLSTM Network
by Mustaqeem and Soonil Kwon
Mathematics 2020, 8(12), 2133; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8122133 - 30 Nov 2020
12 pages, 294 KiB  
Article
Soft Open Bases and a Novel Construction of Soft Topologies from Bases for Topologies
by José Carlos R. Alcantud
Mathematics 2020, 8(5), 672; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8050672 - 29 Apr 2020
20 pages, 1206 KiB  
Article
An Integrated Approach of Best-Worst Method (BWM) and Triangular Fuzzy Sets for Evaluating Driver Behavior Factors Related to Road Safety
by Sarbast Moslem, Muhammet Gul, Danish Farooq, Erkan Celik, Omid Ghorbanzadeh and Thomas Blaschke
Mathematics 2020, 8(3), 414; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8030414 - 13 Mar 2020

Award Committee

Prof. Francisco Chiclana Chairman
De Montfort University

Winner

23 pages, 479 KiB  
Article
Applications of the Fractional Diffusion Equation to Option Pricing and Risk Calculations
by Jean-Philippe Aguilar, Jan Korbel and Yuri Luchko
Mathematics 2019, 7(9), 796; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7090796 - 1 Sep 2019
5 pages, 250 KiB  
Article
Desiderata for Fractional Derivatives and Integrals
by Rudolf Hilfer and Yuri Luchko
Mathematics 2019, 7(2), 149; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7020149 - 4 Feb 2019
21 pages, 425 KiB  
Review
Evaluation of Fractional Integrals and Derivatives of Elementary Functions: Overview and Tutorial
by Roberto Garrappa, Eva Kaslik and Marina Popolizio
Mathematics 2019, 7(5), 407; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7050407 - 7 May 2019
28 pages, 356 KiB  
Review
On History of Mathematical Economics: Application of Fractional Calculus
by Vasily E. Tarasov
Mathematics 2019, 7(6), 509; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7060509 - 4 Jun 2019
20 pages, 1109 KiB  
Article
Economic Machine-Learning-Based Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems
by Zhe Wu and Panagiotis D. Christofides
Mathematics 2019, 7(6), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7060494 - 1 Jun 2019
10 pages, 263 KiB  
Article
On Terms of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences which are Powers of their Indexes
by Pavel Trojovský
Mathematics 2019, 7(8), 700; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7080700 - 3 Aug 2019

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Jose Antonio Tenreiro Machado Chairman
Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto

Winner

23 pages, 647 KiB  
Article
Numerical Solution of Fractional Differential Equations: A Survey and a Software Tutorial
by Roberto Garrappa
Mathematics 2018, 6(2), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6020016 - 23 Jan 2018
13 pages, 369 KiB  
Article
Numerical Solution of Multiterm Fractional Differential Equations Using the Matrix Mittag–Leffler Functions
by Marina Popolizio
Mathematics 2018, 6(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6010007 - 9 Jan 2018
17 pages, 3145 KiB  
Article
Data Driven Economic Model Predictive Control
by Masoud Kheradmandi and Prashant Mhaskar
Mathematics 2018, 6(4), 51; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6040051 - 2 Apr 2018
17 pages, 2125 KiB  
Article
Computation of Probability Associated with Anderson–Darling Statistic
by Lorentz Jäntschi and Sorana D. Bolboacă
Mathematics 2018, 6(6), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6060088 - 25 May 2018
19 pages, 583 KiB  
Article
Approximate Dynamic Programming Based Control of Proppant Concentration in Hydraulic Fracturing
by Harwinder Singh Sidhu, Prashanth Siddhamshetty and Joseph S. Kwon
Mathematics 2018, 6(8), 132; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6080132 - 1 Aug 2018
20 pages, 3379 KiB  
Article
Recurrent Neural Network-Based Model Predictive Control for Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
by Wee Chin Wong, Ewan Chee, Jiali Li and Xiaonan Wang
Mathematics 2018, 6(11), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6110242 - 7 Nov 2018

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Jose Antonio Tenreiro Machado Chairman
Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto

Winner

312 KiB  
Article
Solution of Inhomogeneous Differential Equations with Polynomial Coefficients in Terms of the Green’s Function
by Tohru Morita and Ken-ichi Sato
Mathematics 2017, 5(4), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/math5040062 - 10 Nov 2017
641 KiB  
Article
Least-Squares Solution of Linear Differential Equations
by Daniele Mortari
Mathematics 2017, 5(4), 48; https://doi.org/10.3390/math5040048 - 8 Oct 2017
272 KiB  
Article
Logical Entropy of Dynamical Systems—A General Model
by Abolfazl Ebrahimzadeh, Zahra Eslami Giski and Dagmar Markechová
Mathematics 2017, 5(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/math5010004 - 6 Jan 2017
695 KiB  
Article
Impact of Parameter Variability and Environmental Noise on the Klausmeier Model of Vegetation Pattern Formation
by Merlin C. Köhnke and Horst Malchow
Mathematics 2017, 5(4), 69; https://doi.org/10.3390/math5040069 - 23 Nov 2017
241 KiB  
Article
Stability of a Monomial Functional Equation on a Restricted Domain
by Yang-Hi Lee
Mathematics 2017, 5(4), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/math5040053 - 18 Oct 2017
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