Best Paper Competition

Annually, PSSN recognizes authors/ researchers of the nature studies with high quality through paper competition. It has already awarded more than 100 papers in the last 20 years. PSSN is inviting researchers to submit their research papers for the 2025 Best Paper Competition. Cash prizes and award citation will be given to all winners. Participating author/s should send copy of their full paper to the secretariat@pssnonline.org with "Competing Paper" as the subject of the email.

Mechanics of the competition

1. Participating author/s should send a copy of their full paper to the secretariat@pssnonline.org with “competing paper” as the subject of the email.

2. The submission of entries shall indicate that the author/s are declaring that the papers are original and have no conflict of business interest.

3. Submitted papers should not have been submitted, reviewed, or accepted for publication in any peer-reviewed journal at the time of submission.

4. The entry should be typed in double space and saved as word document.

5. The entry should contain a title (limit of 15 words), author/s’ name/s, author/s’ affiliation, abstract (limit of 200 words), keywords (limit of 5 keywords), Introduction, Objectives, Framework (if applicable), Methods or Methodology, Results and Discussion, Conclusion (and Recommendations, if applicable), Acknowledgement (if any), and Literature Cited (APA style).

6. Only one entry per author/s will be considered in the competition. PSSN reserves the right to reject any second entry.

7. Submitted entries will be pre-screened or pre-evaluated by the Best Paper Award Committee.

8. The finalists shall present their papers during the first day of the conference proper; otherwise they will be disqualified.

9. Non-finalists will be presented in the regular paper presentation schedules.

10. Members of the Best Paper Award Committee shall not join the competition.

11. For the final judging, the criteria for selection of the Best Oral Paper shall be as follows:

                                      Contribution to the main theme  – 40%

                                        Completeness of the parts     – 30%

(intro, framework, Methods, results discussion and conclusion) 

                                        Practicability  – 20%

                                        Clarity of presentation  – 10%

12. The decision of the committee is final and shall be respected. The committee shall not entertain questions regarding the selection of the winners.

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