We are pleased to announce that the winners of 2019 Travel Award, sponsored by MDPI and Publications, are Jiangen He and Olmo van den Akker.

Jiangen He is a PhD student in the Department of Information Science at Drexel University, USA. Jiangen’s research focuses on the development of quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of how science advances, especially through machine learning, visual analytics, and predictive analysis.

Olmo van den Akker is a PhD student at the meta-research group at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is working on several projects, such as studying researchers’ interpretations of statistical results and the efficacy of preregistration, which is expected to present the preliminary results of this preregistration project at the Metascience Symposium 2019 at Stanford University.

It has certainly been a difficult decision, with such a collection of high-quality applications for the awards. We would like to thank all of the applicants for submitting such a range of diverse and fascinating research topics and congratulate the winners for their accomplishment.

Dr. Tony Ross-Hellauer
Editor-in-Chief
On behalf of Award Committee

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Travel Awards Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Travel Awards sponsored by Publications.

Dr. Iqra Safder, a Ph.D. student at the Information Technology University, Pakistan, and Dr. Yi Bu, a Ph.D. student at the Indiana University, USA, are the Publications 2018 Travel Awards winners. Each awardee will receive 800 Swiss Francs towards participation at their chosen international conference:

• Dr. Iqra Safder plans to present his work entitled “DLFS: Deep Learning-based Full-text Scholarly Search System” at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) to be held from November 17–20, 2018 in Singapore.
• Dr. Yi Bu will present his work entitled “Finding balance in global relationships: roles of collaboration, mobility, and specialization in building ties across countries” at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting (2018) to be held from August 29–September 1, 2018, in Sydney, Australia.

It was a difficult decision for the Evaluation Committee with such high quality applications for the awards, and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. We congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Publications is very proud to support young scientists and looks forward to receiving applications for the 2019 Awards.

Prof. Guangwei Hu
Chair of the Evaluation Committee