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 2017 (Vol 92) has been awarded to:
Ford K.L., Henricot B., Baumgartner K., Bailey A.M., Foster G.D. (2017). A faster inoculation assay for Armillaria using herbaceous plants. Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, Vol 92, pages 39–47. doi.org/10.1080/14620316.2016.1223528
We congratulate the authors of the winning paper, which is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers at The University of Bristol and The Royal Horticultural Society from the UK and the USDA/University of California in the USA
The prize-winning paper is free to download. To link to this year’s winner: https://doi.org/10.1080/14620316.2016.1223528