Material Science Research India An International Peer Reviewed Research Journal
About the award
Material Science Research India instituted an annual Best Paper Award to celebrate outstanding research.
As we know that along with creating amazing research, researchers put immense efforts and time behind the scenes for bringing the life-changing research at the forefront of the audience mind. The BEST PAPER AWARD is to provide the recognition to early career researchers who are fantastic at communicating their scientific work to the public, going above and beyond the publication of their academic advances.
The Award will be given annually to the top three papers for three different subject areas. All the three recipients of the award will receive a certificate and different amount of prize money respectively for the high-impact publication.
Sponsorship
This award is sponsored by Dr. Syed Aftab Iqbal who is Ex-Director, Crescent College of Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India having an experience of 35 years of P.G teaching and conducting research on coordination, environmental and drug chemistry since three decades. He has produced 21 Ph. D(s) on various thrust areas of chemistry and at present supervising six candidates, engaged in research for their Ph.D. degree. He is the author and co-author of about 22 books and has a credit of the publication of more than 120 research papers of chemistry. He is Chief Editor of Oriental Journal of Chemistry as well as Executive Editor of 10 International Peer-Reviewed Research Journals. He has presented more than 50 research papers in National and about 10 research papers in International Conferences. He is the reviewer of a number of International Journals and publishers viz; Elsevier, Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, Arabian Journal of Chemistry, PCSIR, Asian Journal of Chemistry, Current World Environment, Biomedical, and Pharmacology Journal, etc.
Dr. Iqbal is the life member and fellow of a number of research and academic societies. He has recently founded an International Chemical Society entitled Researchers Society of Chemical Sciences, India as a founder president. Dr. Iqbal is also working for the Society for Human Welfare and Environment Protection (NGO) since last fifteen years.
Selection Committee
The selection of paper will be done by the Evaluation Committee of four members including the chief Editor and two more editors. Each eligible paper will be read by all members of the evaluation committee and evaluated against the criteria mentioned below. Members of the Selection Committee shall decline to evaluate papers if they have the following special relationships with the author(s) of the papers considered: relatives, students, colleagues, and co-authors. Selection committee choses the best paper out of all of the papers published in a given year in the Journal. Every author who has a paper published in the journal is a candidate for the award in a given year. The final decision will be given by Editor-in-Chief ( Dr. Satyabrata Jit , Professor and Head Department of Electronics Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi-221005, India)
Evaluation Committee of three members are as follows:
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Dr. Satyabrata Jit |
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Dr. Manoj Gupta, |
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Dr. Alokmay Datta |
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Dr. Sudheesh K. Shukla |
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Selection Process
In selecting the winner, the editors will reflect the ambitions to combine the perspectives of professionalism and organization and take into consideration the technical quality of the paper, the contribution to theory, and the empirical significance of the paper’s findings. They will also consider such factors as innovation, significance to the research community, impact, and the clarity of presentation. The selection of paper will be done in a way that initially during the review process reviewers will recommend the paper which is eligible for the award, and then that paper will be given score by Evaluation committee members, based on the criterion. The score allocated to each paper by each member will then sum up and then the highest scoring papers will be selected for the “BEST PAPER AWARD” category wise. The final decision will be taken by Editor-in-Chief.
The assessment and the scoring of the manuscript for the award will be done based on the following criterion:
- The significance of the paper to the field
- Theoretical contribution
- Use of appropriate methodologies
- Clarity of writing and/or presentation.
- Review analytics of paper
- Reach and citation of a paper
Award Distribution
A prize of rupees 25,000 will be awarded to the first paper, followed by the prize money of rupees 15,000 for the second paper and rupees 10,000 for the third paper along with certificate to winning author/s. If best papers have multiple authors then the prize money is divided for each author. The names of the winners are published in the Journal and recognition will be given through social channels.
Note:
- The Article processing fee will not be refunded to the author if the paper is selected as the best paper.
- The award only implies for the paper submitted for the issue of Dec 2019 to Dec 2020.
- The prize money will be transferred through banking channels (Bank Draft/Money Transfer).
Terms and Conditions
- The date of award announcement will be after the issue release of December 2020.
- The recipient will agree to publish his/her photo to share on social channels.
- Only the winner’s picture along with a certificate will be shared.
- The decision of selection committee is final and no comments are entertained regarding the awardee.