IEEE GRSS Highest Impact Paper Award

To recognize the author(s) who have published during the past five years in an IEEE GRSS Journal, the scientific paper that has received the highest number of citations and impact over the past five years, as measured by the Thomson Reuters Web of Science citation index. A previously selected paper shall not be eligible for this award in the following years.

Past Award recipients

Eligibility

The Publications Awards Committee requires that, to be eligible the technical/scientific papers is published in an IEEE GRSS Journal

Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.

 

Prize

Certificate and $4,000 honorarium. Single Annual Award with Multiple Recipients. In case of multiple authors, each will receive a certificate, and the cash award will be shared among the co-authors.

Frequency

The award shall be presented annually. Award will be given only if a suitable paper is identified.

Nominee Solicitation

The Chair of the Publications Awards Committee compiles the list of nominated papers by analyzing the citations received by papers published in TGRS, J-STARS, and GRSL in the last five years (Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar). The five papers with the most citations are forwarded to the Publication Awards Committee. The Publication Awards Committee evaluates the candidates and selects a winner.

No paper authored or coauthored by persons involved in the selection process is eligible.

Basis for Judging

The Publications Awards Committee may give preference to papers that are pivotal and have performed significant contributions to the analysis of remote sensing images in recent years.

Papers published up to five calendar years previous are screened for their number of citations. The screening is performed with Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar for the IEEE GRSS Journals:

  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Schedule

January

Chair of the Publication Awards Committee compiles the list of nominated papers by analyzing the citations received by papers published in TGRS, J-STARS and GRSL in the last five years (Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar).

End of January

The Vice-President of Publication forwards the five highest-ranked candidates to the Publication Awards Committee.

Early February to Mid-March

The Publication Awards Committee evaluates the five candidates and selects a winner.

March

The Award recipients are ratified at the March AdCom meeting.

Late March

Award recipients are notified.

July/August

Announced publicly at IGARSS.

Presentation

The award shall be presented at an awards ceremony during the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS, of the year following the publication period, together with other IEEE GRSS awards.

Publications Awards Committee

  • Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura (Spain): Chair

  • Liangpei Zhang, Wuhan University (China)

  • Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp (Belgium)

  • Florence Tupin, Telecom Paris (France)

  • Jun Li, China University Geoscience (China)

  • Hairong Qi, University of Tennesse (USA)

  • Hanwen Yu, University of Electronic Science & Technology (China)

Contact: grss-award-pub@ieee.org