Awards

Welcome to the JASSS Awards section! Here, we celebrate the vital contributions that underpin the quality and integrity of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS).

The sustainability and success of our journal are based on a ‘social contract’ of academic citizenship, in which all members of the community – authors, editors, and reviewers – cooperate to maintain essential public goods, such as editorial work and peer review. This voluntary yet essential work is crucial to promoting innovative, rigorous and replicable research, and for maintaining the credibility and trust in science.

In a challenging academic environment that often pressures researchers, recognizing those who excel in this cooperative effort is more important than ever. Peer review, in particular, requires reviewers to bear individual costs (their time and effort) for the benefit of the whole community (authors and editors), often with few extrinsic rewards.

To support and reward this essential work, we have established two annual awards: The Best PhD Student Paper Award and the Top 5 Best Reviewers Award. In line with the vision set out in an editorial note published in 2024 (see: https://www.jasss.org/28/1/6.html), we see these awards as part of our mission to foster a context that supports sustainable science and academic citizenship.

We announce the winners of both awards on the journal’s website and social channels at the start of each academic year. We are committed to fostering an environment where the dedication to maintaining high scientific standards is acknowledged and celebrated.

1. Best PhD Student Paper Award

This award recognizes the most innovative, rigorous, and high-quality paper published in JASSS in the last year for which the lead author was a PhD student at the time of submission.Recipients will receive a certificate and a gift. This initiative aims to support and encourage early-career researchers who represent the future of the field.

2025 Daniel Torren Peraire – An Agent-Based Model of Cultural Change for a Low-Carbon Transition, 27 (1) 13

2. Top 5 Best Reviewers Award

This award is dedicated to rewarding the individuals who have made the most significant contribution to the journal’s peer review process over the past year.

  • The top 5 reviewers are selected based on internal statistics and editorial assessment, taking into account factors like engagement, timeliness, and the constructiveness and quality of their reports.
  • Recipients will receive a certificate and a gift.
  • Reviewers with outstanding records may also be invited to join the journal’s editorial board.

    • 2025

    • Amineh Ghorbani – Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

    • Marijn A. Keijzer – Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse & the Toulouse School of Economics, France

    • Vittorio Nespeca – Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

    • Carlo Proietti – Institute for Computational Linguistics, Italy

    • Francesco Renzini – University of Milan, Italy