Library Open Access Awards
Celebrate our award recipients and read their winning papers.
The Open Access Awards recognise staff contributions to open access research – scholarly articles that are available for free. Each year, a framed certificate is presented to the University staff member whose open access article has received the most citations in Web of Science or Scopus.
Criteria for the award
To win, articles must have been:
- published during the last three years
- most highly cited in either Web of Science or Scopus
- written by a University staff member (not an associate, adjunct or honorary).
If the paper is multi-authored, the Federation author must be listed first, second, third or last in terms of contribution rather than by alphabetical order. If more than one eligible author is from Federation, they will be acknowledged via a joint award.
2025 winner
The 2025 Library Open Access Award winner is Associate Professor Ayon Chakraborty for the paper 'A systematic review of industrial wastewater management: evaluating challenges and enablers', published in the Journal of Environmental Management, 2023, volume 348.
This paper was cited 233 times in Web of Science, and received enough citations in July and August 2025 to place it in the top 0.1% of papers in the academic field of environment/ecology. It has also been cited 308 times in Scopus, putting it in the 99th percentile.
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This paper was cited 233 times in Web of Science, and received enough citations in July and August 2025 to place it in the top 0.1% of papers in the academic field of environment/ecology. It has also been cited 308 times in Scopus, putting it in the 99th percentile.
Read the paper