Annual awards for Best Cited Articles and Most Active Editors

In recognition of the valuable contributions we have been continuously receiving at MycoKeys, this year, we start an annual tradition where we award the best performing authors and editors at our journal.

From now on, towards the end of the year, we will be awarding vouchers for a free publication to the first authors¹ behind the top most cited 3-year-old² publications, according to Web of Science data, and the editors³ who have completed the most editorial tasks in the preceding year.

This year, we are awarding the authors behind the most cited papers published in 2018:

1. High diversity of Diaporthe species associated with dieback diseases in China, with twelve new species described (40 citations)
2. Identification of endophytic fungi from leaves of Pandanaceae based on their morphotypes and DNA sequence data from southern Thailand (36 citations)
3. The lichens of the Alps – an annotated checklist (32 citations)

We encourage the awarded authors to use the voucher with their co-authors in a shared authorship. The awardees are not required to be lead authors of the new submission to use their vouchers. They are also welcome to inform us if they wish to pass their voucher to any of their co-authors, in case they do not intend to redeem the voucher themselves.

We are also delighted to award the most active editors at MycoKeys from 2020:

1. María P. Martín (13 edited manuscripts in 2020)
2. R. Henrik Nilsson (10 edited manuscripts in 2020)
3. Huzefa Raja (7 edited manuscripts in 2020)

We’ll be back next year, when we will award the most cited papers published in 2019 and the most active editors from 2021!
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¹In case the third place is shared by multiple papers, we are awarding the most recently published one in recognition of its addressing a particularly ‘hot’ topic in mycology.
²We assume that this is the minimum period for an article to accumulate a prominent amount of citations.
³If multiple editors share the third place in the ranking, the award is given to the one with the highest all-time record at MycoKeys.