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.

Outstanding paper award 2020:

The “Revista de la Construccion-Outstanding Paper Award 2020” has been granted to the article “ID-13874-Effects of plasticizer and antifreeze on concrete at elevated temperatures and different cooling regimes” (https://doi.org/10.7764/rdlc.19.3.347-357), presented by Professors Ilknur Bekem Kara and Metin Arslan.

We congratulate these research teams for their remarkable contributions to our journal and we encourage our community to submit research manuscripts (construction and building technologies and civil engineering).