Best paper award

The Journal of Engineering Design provides an essential forum for dialogue on insightful issues across all disciplines and aspects of the design of engineered products and systems. The Journal publishes pioneering best industrial practice as well as authoritative research, studies and review papers on the underlying principles of design, its management, practice, techniques and methodologies. All published articles have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees. The Journal publishes only the highest-quality original research contributions and recognises the best contribution of the previous year with a Best Paper Award. The Award is based on a rigorous paper selection procedure and a demanding set of assessment criteria. The best paper must offer an original scientific contribution and novel results for archiving, the reported work should reflect scientifically rigorous engineering design research, the methods and results should be validated and useful, and the overall presentation should be complete, well structured and transparent. Specific selection criteria reflect the importance of the problem and relevance to the journal, the scientific/professional value of the ideas presented, the comprehensiveness of investigations, significance and societal impacts of the findings, and the quality of conclusions. In addition, repeatability and timeliness of doing the work, consolidation of the results, reference to other critical works, clarity of writing, and quality of illustrations have been taken into account in the assessment process.