Best Article Award

Best Article Award 2024

Awarded articles

 I quarter 2024

1st award
Jarosław Mołdoch, Krzysztof Domaradzki – Preliminary studies on the allelopathic potential of two invasive species of Solidago against selected cereal weeds

2nd award
Antoni Faber, Zuzanna Jarosz – Impact of climate change on agriculture in Poland

 II quarter 2024

1st award
Adam Berbeć – Agricultural resilience and agricultural sustainability – which is which?

2nd award  
Marcin Różewicz – Effect of different doses of apple pomace to the substrate on photosynthetic efficiency and yield in common buckwheat in a model experiment

 III quarter 2024

1st award
Karolina Smytkiewicz-Buzak – The importance of biological fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by leguminous crops

2nd award
Karolina Dłutowska, Bernard Gałka, Anna Szuba-Trznadel, Rafał Ramut, Marcin Włodarczyk, Anna Jama-Rodzeńska – The effect of various inoculants on the productivity, chemical composition of soybean seeds (Glycine max (L. Merrill) Magnolia PZO) and chemical properties of soil in southwest part of Poland – preliminary studies

 IV quarter 2024
1st award
Małgorzata Kozak, Anna Jędrejek, Rafał Pudełko – Multi-indicator deterministic model based on time series of Sentinel-2, to assess the degree of natural succession on the abandoned arable areas

2nd award
Tomasz Żyłowski, Katarzyna Żyłowska, Sylwia Pindral, Jerzy Kozyra, Artur Łopatka – Assessment of soil conditions and nitrous oxide emissions from soil in rapeseed and maize cultivation for energy purposes in Poland

Best Article Award 2025

I quarter 2025

1st award
Dominika Gmur, Grzegorz Siebielec, Monika Pecio – Chelate-induced accumulation of rare earth elements in plants grown on soil and ash-based growing media

2nd award
Małgorzata Woźniak, Sylwia Siebielec -Agriculturally important groups of microorganisms – microbial enhancement of nutrient availability

 II quarter 2025

1st award
Arkadiusz Artyszak, Dariusz Gozdowski, Rafał Popielec – The response of winter rapeseed (Brassica napus L. (partim)) to foliar application of silicon and calcium in the Zamość region

2nd award
Filiz Kutluay Tutar, Abdallah Abukalloub, Sayyara Musayeva – Economic implications of digitalization and smart agriculture: A comparative study of Poland and Türkiye

III and IV quarter 2025

1st award

Karolina Furtak, Karolina Gawryjołek, Małgorzata Woźniak, Emilia Grzęda

Enzymatic activity and metabolic potential of microorganisms in flood-affected soils analysed in the short and long term after flooding – preliminary studies

2nd award

 Jacek Sosnowski, Robert Rosa, Krzysztof Pakuła, Jolanta Franczuk, Karol Remiszewski

Effects of the foliar application of humic biostimulant on alfalfa and cucumber – case studies

 

RULES OF THE COMPETITION

(acc. to Regulation No.020-41/2026 of 29.05.2026)

General information

  • Awards will be awarded in the following amounts (gross amounts):
  • First award – PLN 1,000.00
  • Second award – PLN 500.00
  • By submitting a paper to the CA journal, the authors agree to participate in the competition and the use of the authors’ details in the announcement of the results, unless the authors decide otherwise when submitting the paper. The corresponding author is obliged to provide the email addresses of all authors in the author’s declaration submitted when submitting the paper to the journal.
  • Awards will be granted within 3 months of the date of publication in CA of the last article assigned to the quarter being evaluated. When the number of published works in a given quarter is fewer than 3, the competition for that edition is not held, and the published works are assessed in the following quarter.
  • Articles are assigned to a particular edition of the competition based on the date of publication on the CA website in a given quarter, regardless of the year to which they have been assigned.
  • Authors of award-winning works will be notified of the award via email. In the case of co-authorship, the award is granted to each co-author in proportion to their percentage contribution to the article, as stated by the corresponding author in the declaration submitted when the paper is submitted to CA.
  • Non-Polish authors receive the equivalent of the award in euros at the exchange rate on the day it is awarded.
  • The award is transferred only to the author’s bank account. The details required for the award transfer must be provided via the OJS system (or by email) no later than 14 days from the date on which the award information is sent to the Author(s). After this time, the award will be forfeited.

Evaluation

  • Publications are evaluated by a 5-member committee, consisting of the Editor-in-Chief and four members of the Editorial Committee appointed on a case-by-case basis by the Editor-in-Chief. A member of the Editorial Committee is excluded from the committee if they are the author or co-author, or if they were a reviewer of the article being evaluated.
  • Each member of the Committee shall evaluate individual publications, awarding each of them between 4 and 20 points.
  • The Editor-in-Chief summarises the marks given by the individual members of the Committee. An evaluation report is drawn up from the summary, indicating the works in the CA quarter and the sum of points obtained in descending order. If two (or more) papers have received the same highest number of points, or if two (or more) papers have received the same second-highest number of points, the order of the paperd is determined by the result of the vote of the Committee members.
  • The awards are granted by the Editor-in-Chief on the basis of the scores included in the evaluation report. The Editor-in-Chief’s decisions are final, do not require justification, and there is no provision for an appeal procedure.
  • Information about the award-winning publications is made public within 14 days of the evaluation. Scores are given as a summarised number of points per article.

 

CA article evaluation sheet for original / review papers

  1. significance of the research problem / the originality of the topic addressed (score: 1-5 points)
  2. original contribution of the author(s) to the development of the relevant scientific discipline / the selection, justification and implementation of the review's objective (score: 1-5 points)
  3. methodological soundness, statistical criteria and visualisation of research results / comprehensiveness of the approach, scope and appropriateness of the selection of sources/databases, preparation of illustrative material (score: 1-5 points)
  4. proficiency and linguistic correctness in presenting the literature review and in analysing and discussing the research findings / linguistic correctness, coherence and consistency in the narrative (score: 1-5 points)