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
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
Past recipients
Dr Huy Nguyen
The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Tran, KB, Nguyen, Huy et al, The Lancet, 2022, volume 400, issue 10352, pp 563–591.
Professor Fadi Charchar
2020 International Society of Hypertension global hypertension practice guidelines, co-authored by T Unger, Fadi Charchar et al, Hypertension, June 2020, volume 75, issue 6, pp 1334–1357.
Associate Professor Aziz Rahman
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, co-authored by CJL Murray, Aziz Rahman et al, The Lancet, October 2020, volume 396, issue 10258, pp 1223–1249.
Associate Professor Aziz Rahman
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, co-authored by C Abbafati, Aziz Rahman et al, Lancet, October 2020, volume 396, issue 10258, pp 1204-1222.
Professor Peter Gell
Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity, by Andrea J Reid, Peter Gell et al, Biological Reviews, June 2019, volume 94, issue 3, pp 849–873.
Associate Professor Rochelle Eime
The association between social support and physical activity in older adults: a systematic review, by GL Smith, Rochelle Eime et al, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, April 2017, volume 14, article number 56.