1. Eligibility
Eligible for selection shall be papers published in the
May issue and the November issue of the present year.
2. Numbers of awardees
The award shall be given once a year to a maximum of four
papers, at most one paper per field. However, no award
shall be given in any field, if there is no paper
qualified for awarding.
3. Evaluation method
(1) Field Editors shall ask Contact Editors in the
relevant fields to recommend one paper from his/her
country and one from other countries.
(2) Contact Editors shall notify their Field Editors of
recommended papers with their evaluations, made according
to the following criteria:
(Evaluation criteria)
a. High quality content of an international level
b. Exploration of new areas, methodologies, and concepts
c. Abundant in originality, pioneering achievement,
novelty, and potential
d. Outstanding in accuracy, diligence and effort
(3) Field Editors and Contact Editors, considering the
evaluations submitted, shall give scores by voting in an
open ballot per field. The final grades shall be the
total scores divided by the number of votes.
(Scores)
a. Excellent: 4
b. Very good: 3
c. Good: 2
d. Average: 1
e. Below average: 0
(4) The Field Editors and Contact Editors of each field
shall nominate one paper to the JAABE Editorial
Committee. The grade of nominated papers shall in
principle be 2.0 or more.
(5) The JAABE Editorial Committee shall decide the
winning papers based on nominations by the Field Editors.
4. Awarding
Testimonials shall be presented to the recipients of the
award. In principle, only the first authors shall be the
recipients of the award.
5. Announcement
Winning papers and awardees shall be announced on the homepage of JAABE.
6. Miscellaneous
The Field Editors and Contact Editors shall decline to
evaluate papers, if they have the following special
relationships with the authors of the papers considered:
relatives, masters and pupils, colleagues, and
co-authors. The Field Editors and Contact Editors who
happen to be the authors (first authors/co-authors) of
recommended papers shall decline to evaluate papers and
appoint a deputy from the Editorial Board and invest
him/her with full power. |