Best Article Award 2025

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

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

Rules of the competition

(acc. to Regulation No. 020 – 10/2025 of 14.02.2025)

General information

By submitting a paper to the CA journal, the authors agree to participate in the competition and the use of the authors' data in the results information, unless the authors decide otherwise when submitting the paper.
Awards will be made within 3 months of the date of publication in CA of the last article assigned to the quarter being evaluated.
Articles are assigned to a given quarter based on the date of submission of the paper to CA. If more than 40 calendar days elapse between the date on which the last of the peer-reviewed papers is sent to the correspondent author and the date on which the version of the paper ready for publication is sent to the editor, the article is not included in the competition.
Authors of award-winning papers will be notified of the award via email. In the case of co-authorship, the award will be given to each co-author in proportion to the percentage contribution to the article shown in the correspondent author's statement 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 the award is awarded
The time limit for providing the details necessary for the award transfer is 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-person committee consisting of members of the Editorial Committee. The committee consists of the editor-in-chief and four members appointed by the editor-in-chief. A member of the editorial committee is excluded from the committee if they are the author or co-author of one of the articles 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 each member of the Commission. An evaluation report is drawn up from the summary, indicating the works in the CA quarter and the sum of the points obtained in descending order. If two (or more) papers receive the same highest number of points, or two (or more) papers receive the same second highest number of points, the order of the papers is determined by the result of the vote of the members of the Committee.
The awards are awarded by the Editor-in-Chief on the basis of the scores included in the evaluation protocol. The decisions of the Editor-in-Chief are final, do not require justification, and there is no appeal procedure.
The names of the awarded authors and the scores of the awarded articles are made public within 14 days of the evaluation. Scores are given as the average number of points per article per assessor.
In assessing the works, points are awarded acc. to evaluation sheet:

CA article evaluation sheet

Evaluation criteria	Score
A. Significance of the research problem	1–5 points
B. Original contribution of the author(s) to the development of the scientific discipline	1–5 points
C. Methodological soundness, statistical criteria and visualisation of research results; in review papers, comprehensiveness of approach	1–5 points
D. Proficiency and linguistic correctness in the presentation of the literature review and the discussion and debate of the research findings	1–5 points
Total score	4–20 points