2025 GUIDELINES FOR BEST PAPER AWARDS
Early-Career Best Paper Award:
The ENRE Early-Career Best Paper Award is presented annually at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to one or more young researcher(s) for authoring an outstanding paper related to the theory and/or application of operations research-management science methods to a problem in energy, natural resources, or the environment. The award serves as a recognition of promising young researchers who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial careers.
Eligibility criteria:
The author(s) and the work must satisfy the following conditions to be eligible for the award.
• None of the authors may have been awarded his/her terminal degree more than six calendar years prior to January 1, 2025.
• There is no requirement of publication; however, if the paper is published, it must have been published within four calendar years prior to January 1, 2025.
• The topic of the paper must belong to one or more of the fields of energy, natural resources, or the environment.
• The prize may be awarded only once in a lifetime to any individual, thus, no author of a nominated paper may be a previous recipient of the ENRE Early-Career Best Paper.
Submission process:
We encourage ENRE members to either submit their own papers or nominate papers written by others.
ENRE membership is a requirement for the nominator, but not for the nominee.
The paper must be submitted to the Award Committee Chair: Chiara Lo Prete (chiaraloprete@psu.edu), Penn State University, by June 23, 2025.
A nomination consists of two documents, both in pdf format:
1. A nomination letter from the nominator confirming that the author and the paper satisfy the eligibility criteria;
2. A copy of the nominated paper.
The winner(s) will give a short presentation of the winning paper in the ENRE Awards Session during the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting. The presenter must register for the conference and will be responsible for the associated travel and registration expenses. The award includes an official certificate from INFORMS.
Area Best Publication Awards:
These awards are given annually to outstanding refereed journal articles in three major areas: (1) Energy, (2) Environment and Sustainability, and (3) Natural Resources.
Eligibility criteria:
· In 2025, only those papers published between Jan. 1, 2022 and Dec. 31, 2024 (inclusive) are eligible for these awards.
· A paper can be submitted only by a current ENRE member (2025 active membership is required), but the authors of the paper may not necessarily be ENRE members.
· Papers that have already won an ENRE award in the past are not eligible for any award in the current year.
· A paper can be submitted for more than one area award, but it cannot receive more than one award.
Submission process:
All submissions must be received by June 23, 2025.
We encourage ENRE members to submit their paper or nominate papers written by others.
The person submitting the paper should send an email to the chair of the award committee accompanied with a package including two documents, both in pdf format, containing:
1. The information on the authors, full reference of the article, and the area of submission (i.e., Energy, Natural Resources, or Environment and Sustainability).
2. A copy of the article written in English.
Please let the award committee know if the paper has been submitted for more than one area award.
The winner(s) will give a short presentation of the winning paper in the ENRE Awards Session during the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting. The presenter must register for the conference and will be responsible for the associated travel and registration expenses. The award includes an official certificate from INFORMS.
The contact information for the committee chairs is below:
ENRE Best Publication – Energy
Committee Chair: Jacob Mays (jacobmays@cornell.edu), Cornell University
ENRE Best Publication – Environment and Sustainability
Committee Chair: Yury Dvorkin (ydvorki1@jhu.edu), Johns Hopkins University
ENRE Best Publication – Natural Resources
Committee Chair: Safak Yucel (safak.yucel@georgetown.edu), Georgetown University
Student Best Paper Award:
This award is given annually to a paper addressing energy, environmental, or natural resource issues and authored by a student. All students (undergraduate, MS, PhD) conducting research related to energy, environment, or natural resource issues (including theory, OR/MS methods, or applications) are encouraged to apply. Students do not need to be ENRE members to be eligible for the competition, however membership is encouraged. Publication of the paper is not a requirement. The submitted papers will be reviewed by a panel of judges and the Student Best Paper Award Committee of ENRE. The award includes an official certificate from INFORMS and a $400 honorarium.
Eligibility criteria:
· Student must be currently enrolled in a graduate/undergraduate program of a university.
· Student must be the first author and main contributor of the paper, although faculty members or other mentors can be co-authors.
· Student must be presenting a talk at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
· Student must not have received a previous ENRE Student Best Paper Award.
Submission process:
We encourage ENRE members to submit their paper or nominate papers written by others.
The paper must be submitted to the Committee Chair: Elina Spyrou (evangelia.spyrou@imperial.ac.uk), Imperial College London, by June 23, 2025.
The submission should be done via email and must include:
1. An electronic version of the paper [formatting requirements: 30 pages or less, double-spaced, with 11-point font and 1-inch margins all around].
2. A letter from the mentor/supervisor/faculty co-author highlighting the contributions of the student to the paper.