SIG-MET Awards

Our latest award announcement:

We are happy to announce the winners of METSTI 2024’s best paper award and best student paper award:

Best Paper Award ($500)

Shenmeng Xu. Beyond Borders: The Role of Language in Global Research-to-Policy Dynamics

Best Student Paper Award ($500)

Malik Salami, Corinne McCumber and Jodi Schneider. Reassessment of the agreement in retraction indexing across 4 multidisciplinary sources: Crossref, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science

2022

Best Paper Award ($500)

Jacqueline Sachse and Max Leckert. Quality, impact, productivity: Researchers’ conceptions of bibliometric indicators and altmetrics (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7337147)

Best Student Paper Award ($250)

Poppy Riddle, Marc-André Simard, Pallavi Gone, Vinson Li and Philippe Mongeon. The use of institutional repositories for green Open Access in Canadian universities
Hongxu Liu, Guangyuan Hu and Yin Li. Do self-archiving platforms enhance research impact? Evidence from bioRxiv (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7336752)
Geoff Krause, Timothy D. Bowman, Domenic Rosati, Philippe Mongeon and Michael Smit. Who re-uses data? A bibliometric analysis of data citations and the relationship between authors and data creators (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7369901)

2021

$1000 Best Student Paper Award

Title: Storyteller: The papers co-citing Sleeping Beauty and Prince before awakening
Author: Takahiro Miura & Ichiro Sakata (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

$1000 Best Paper Award

Title: Is novel research worth doing? Evidence from journal peer review
Author: Misha Teplitskiy, Hao Peng, Andrea Blasco & Karim Lakhani (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA)

2020

$1000 Best Student Paper Award

Title: Was the Peer Review Helpful? Automatically Judging Quality of Peer Reviews
Author: Tirthankar Ghosal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

$1000 Best Paper Award (sponsored by Altmetric and Dimensions)

Title: The Effect of Press Releases on Promoted Articles' Citations and Altmetrics
Author: Steffen Lemke, ZBW - Leibniz Centre for Economics, Germany

2018

Best Paper Award (sponsored by Altmetric.com and Dimensions)

Title: Drawing into focus: Methodological enhancements for discourse epistemetrics
Author: Bradford Demarest (Indiana University Bloomington)

Best Student Paper Award (sponsored by Elsevier)

Title: Expertise as an aspect of author contributions
Author: Shubhanshu Mishra, Brent D Fegley, Jana Diesner and Vetle I Torvik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2017