Outstanding Paper Award 2020

The eligibility criteria of papers selected by the Editorial Board considered some aspects such us: papers which provide a significant contribution in the state-of-the-art or understanding in a particular field, originality, clarity and accuracy in writing, and overall impact (amount of citations/date of publication). The winner will be announced within the last week of April, 2024. 

Nomination and selection procedures:

The eligible papers could be either from (i) volume 19, issue (1), year 2020; (ii) volume 19, issue (2), year 2020; or (iii) volume 19, issue (3), year 2020. Understanding that age/time of publication should be considered for normalization due to older papers usually tend to accrue more citations (Dunaiski et al., 2019). The preselected papers are:

• Aksoylu, C., Mobark, A., Hakan Arslan, M., & Hakkı Erkan, İ. (2020). A comparative study on ASCE 7-16, TBEC-2018 and TEC-2007 for reinforced concrete buildings. Revista de la Construcción, 19(2), 282-305.

• Farouk Ghazy, M. (2020). Optimization of recycled concrete aggregate geopolymer bricks by Taguchi Method. Revista de la construcción, 19(2), 244-254.

• Muthusamy Kavitha, S., Venkatesan, G., Avudaiappan, S., & Saavedra Flores, E. I. (2020). Mechanical and flexural performance of self compacting concrete with natural fiber. Revista de la construcción, 19(2), 370-380.

• Kara, İ. B., & Arslan, M. (2020). Effects of plasticizer and antifreeze on concrete at elevated temperatures and different cooling regimes. Revista de la construcción, 19(3), 347-357.

• Nagarajan, D., Rajagopal, T., & Meyappan, N. (2020). A comparative study on prediction models for strength properties of LWA concrete using artificial neural network. Revista de la construcción, 19(1), 103-111.