Best Paper Award

Associazione Teriologica Italiana established a Best Paper Award for young researchers. Eligible researchers are leading authors less than 35 years old, and within 7 years from their PhD (but young researcher at an even earlier stage of their career, i.e. without a PhD, are also
eligible), who have expressed interest in the award sending an e-mail to Hystrix Editor-in-Chief (emiliano.mori@cnr.it).
If the eligible leading researcher is not the corresponding author, the latter should express interest on the leading researcher’s behalf.
Criteria are clarity and accessibility of the presentation, soundness of the methodology, contribution to advancing knowledge in the field, originality of the empirical data (i.e., whether the study is based on newly collected data) as well as number of citations.
The award will be assigned once every two years, usually during the National Congress. The award is assigned by the Editorial Committee or, when necessary, by a panel of experts appointed for this purpose. The award decision will be formally documented in the official minutes, which will be made publicly available on the ATIt website.

2026) The judging committee has convened to evaluate your work and has selected Dr. Francesco Gallozzi as the winner of the Hystrix Best Paper Award 2024–2025, with the paper entitled "The diet of the house mouse in three protected islands in Italy: results from DNA metabarcoding".

PREVIOUS WINNERS

2024 winner) Dulan Jayasekara, with the paper "Population density estimation of meso-mammal carnivores using camera traps without the individual recognition in Maduru Oya National Park, Sri Lanka"
2022 winner) Alessio Iannucci, with the paper "Size shifts in late Middle Pleistocene to Early Holocene Sus scrofa (Suidae, Mammalia) from Apulia (southern Italy): ecomorphological adaptations?"
2020 winner) Luis Darcy Verde Arregoitia, with the paper "Good practices for sharing analysis-ready data in mammalogy and biodiversity research"
2018 winner) Hannah E. Jones, with the paper "Modelling the impact of forest design plans on an endangered mammal species: the Eurasian red squirrel"
2016 winner) Antonio Canu, with the paper "Reproductive phenology and conception synchrony in a natural wild boar population"
2014 winner) Luca Santini, with the paper "Ecological correlates of dispersal distance in terrestrial mammals"