As part of the collaboration between the Trustees and Publishers of the Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, an annual monetary prize was established for the paper with the most impact published in the previous year. For this prize, impact is interpreted in its widest sense to include paper views, downloads, citations and Altmetric scores.
We are very pleased to announce that the Journal Prize for 2020 (Vol 95) has been awarded to:
Kataryne Árabe Rimá de Oliveira, Maria Lúcia da Conceição, Sônia Paula Alexandrino de Oliveira, Marcos dos Santos Lima, Mércia de Sousa Galvão, Marta Suely Madruga, Marciane Magnani & Evandro Leite de Souza (2020) Postharvest quality improvements in mango cultivar Tommy Atkins by chitosan coating with Mentha piperita L. essential oil. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 95:2, 260–272, DOI: 10.1080/14620316.2019.1664338
We congratulate the authors of the winning paper, which is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Brazilian researchers from 3 departments at the Federal University of Paraíba and the Federal Institute of Sertão de Pernambuco, Petrolina. The paper describes the synergistic effect of edible coatings in improving the postharvest quality of Mango fruit.
The prize-winning paper is free to download. To link to this year’s winner: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14620316.2019.1664338.