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Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Entropy 2024 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Entropy from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One review and four research articles will each receive an award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Kevin H. Knuth.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Entropy from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following 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.

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 500;
– A certificate;
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in Entropy in 2024 after peer review.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in April 2024.

Kind regards,
Entropy Editorial Office

 
Entropy 2024 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

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

Winner

26 pages, 2272 KiB  
Article
Metacognition as a Consequence of Competing Evolutionary Time Scales
by Franz Kuchling, Chris Fields and Michael Levin
Entropy 2022, 24(5), 601; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24050601 - 26 Apr 2022
22 pages, 741 KiB  
Article
Quantum Coherences and Classical Inhomogeneities as Equivalent Thermodynamics Resources
by Andrew Smith, Kanupriya Sinha and Christopher Jarzynski
Entropy 2022, 24(4), 474; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24040474 - 29 Mar 2022
14 pages, 1209 KiB  
Article
Power-Optimal Control of a Stirling Engine’s Frictional Piston Motion
by Raphael Paul, Abdellah Khodja, Andreas Fischer, Robin Masser and Karl Heinz Hoffmann
Entropy 2022, 24(3), 362; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24030362 - 3 Mar 2022
18 pages, 12693 KiB  
Article
Recasting the (Synchrosqueezed) Short-Time Fourier Transform as an Instantaneous Spectrum
by Steven Sandoval and Phillip L. De Leon
Entropy 2022, 24(4), 518; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24040518 - 6 Apr 2022
22 pages, 743 KiB  
Review
The Free Energy Principle for Perception and Action: A Deep Learning Perspective
by Pietro Mazzaglia, Tim Verbelen, Ozan Çatal and Bart Dhoedt
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
University of Minnesota

Winner

28 pages, 3278 KiB  
Review
High-Entropy Alloys for Advanced Nuclear Applications
by Ed J. Pickering, Alexander W. Carruthers, Paul J. Barron, Simon C. Middleburgh, David E. J. Armstrong and Amy S. Gandy
Entropy 2021, 23(1), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23010098 - 11 Jan 2021
24 pages, 418 KiB  
Article
A Technical Critique of Some Parts of the Free Energy Principle
by Martin Biehl, Felix A. Pollock and Ryota Kanai
Entropy 2021, 23(3), 293; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23030293 - 27 Feb 2021
33 pages, 4557 KiB  
Article
Stochastic Chaos and Markov Blankets
by Karl Friston, Conor Heins, Kai Ueltzhöffer, Lancelot Da Costa and Thomas Parr
Entropy 2021, 23(9), 1220; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23091220 - 17 Sep 2021
19 pages, 332 KiB  
Article
Probability Representation of Quantum States
by Olga V. Man’ko and Vladimir I. Man’ko
Entropy 2021, 23(5), 549; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23050549 - 29 Apr 2021
12 pages, 557 KiB  
Article
Thermodynamic Efficiency of Interactions in Self-Organizing Systems
by Ramil Nigmatullin and Mikhail Prokopenko
Entropy 2021, 23(6), 757; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23060757 - 16 Jun 2021

Winner

Søren Nors Nielsen
Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Section for Sustainable Biotechnology, Aalborg University, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, DK-2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark
Aleksander Jakimowicz
Department of World Economy, Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Palace of Culture and Science, 1 Defilad Sq., 00-901 Warsaw, Poland
Wanli Wang
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
Bjarne Andresen
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Martí Perarnau-Llobet
Département de Physique Appliquée, Université de Genève, 1206 Genève, Switzerland

Winner

Andrei Khrennikov
Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) Department, National Research University for Information Technology, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia
Artemy Kolchinsky
Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
Václav Klika
Department of Mathematics—FNSPE, Czech Technical University, Trojanova 13, 12000 Prague, Czech Republic
Pierre Baudot
Inserm UNIS UMR1072—Université Aix-Marseille, 13015 Marseille, France

Award Committee

Dr. Kevin Knuth Chairman
(Home Address)

Winner

Jan Gieseler
Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/5/326
James Millen
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, Vienna 1090, Austria paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/5/326
Zahra Karevan
KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/4/264
Johan A. K. Suykens
KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium best paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/4/264
Conor Finn
Faculty of Engineering & IT, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/4/297
Joseph T. Lizier
Faculty of Engineering & IT, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/4/297

Winner

Henry W. Lin
Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/7/299
Max Tegmark
Department of Physics & MIT Kavli Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/7/299
Luca Faes
Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Daniele Marinazzo
Data Analysis Department, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/8/408
Sebastiano Stramaglia
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi Aldo Moro, 70126 Bari, Italy paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/8/408
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