Best Paper Awards
Lisa Stein, Josh Neufeld, Thulani Makhalanyane, and Jillian Petersen.
As the Editor-in-Chief team for The ISME Journal, we are committed to promoting excellence in all aspects of our flagship society journal. We strive to ensure rapid handling of manuscripts and quality reviews as we seek to publish the most important discoveries in microbial ecology.
As part of this philosophy, we wish to acknowledge and celebrate the most impactful articles in our journal. We use a diverse complement of article metrics related to citations, social media mentions, blog posts, and page accesses to shortlist articles that may be deserving of special recognition for a given year. Following this process, we evaluate articles for their content to help reach our final decisions.
High impact articles elevate the profile of our journal and highlight exceptional discoveries in the field of microbial ecology and, given the number of major advances that we publish each year, it is particularly difficult to only select three.
For the 2023 Best Paper Awards, we Editors-in-Chief would like to recognize the following three articles for their outstanding quality and impact. We think you will agree that these three articles nicely reflect the breadth of topics that The ISME Journal publishes each year from authors around the world.
2023
Previous Best Paper Awards
2022
- Organochlorine contamination enriches virus-encoded metabolism and pesticide degradation associated auxiliary genes in soil microbiomes
- Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe
- Ecological memory of prior nutrient exposure in the human gut microbiome
2021
- Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage
- Artificial sweeteners stimulate horizontal transfer of extracellular antibiotic resistance genes through natural transformation
- Fungal phytopathogen modulates plant and insect responses to promote its dissemination
2020
- Intra-colony channels in E. coli function as a nutrient uptake system
- It does not always take two to tango: “Syntrophy” via hydrogen cycling in one bacterial cell
- Phage-specific metabolic reprogramming of virocell
Outstanding Editorial Board Member Awards
The Editors-in-Chief wish to extend their congratulations to the following top three outstanding Editorial Board members, for their consistent hard work in offering a high number of quality reviews in a timely manner in 2023:
- Meiying Xu, Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, China
- Linda Thomashow, Washington State University, USA
- William Orsi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Each receives an open access waiver for their next article and a one-year membership to ISME.
Previous Outstanding Editorial Board Member Awards
2022
- Trinity Hamilton
- David Johnson
- Mamoru Oshiki
2021
- Willm Martens-Habbena
- Stavros Veresoglou
- Joy Buongiorno
2020
- Graeme Nicol
- Steven Siciliano
- Amy Pruden
