Announcement of Soft Science 2022 Best Paper Awards

The Editorial Office of Soft Science (SS) is pleased to announce the 2022 Best Paper Awards in recognition of authors for their particularly outstanding contributions to SS. Three papers published in SS in 2021 were selected as best papers by the Journal Awards Committee based on the following criteria:

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality/Novelty;
– Uniqueness of the methods;
– Clarity;
– Citation times in the given year. (Data source: Google Scholar)

Winners of Best Paper Awards

First Place	Authors
Tattoo-like epidermal electronics as skin sensors for human-machine interfacesSoft Sci 2021;1:10. 10.20517/ss.2021.09	Tsz Hung Wong#, Chun Ki Yiu#, Jingkun Zhou#, Zhen Song#, Yiming Liu, Ling Zhao, Kuanming Yao, Wooyoung Park, Woojung Yoo, Enming Song*, Zhaoqian Xie*, Xinge Yu*
Second Place	Authors
Uncovering isolated resonant responses in antagonistic pure-shear dielectric elastomer actuatorsSoft Sci 2021;1:1. 10.20517/ss.2021.01	Chongjing Cao, Thomas L. Hill, Bo Li, Guimin Chen, Lei Wang, Xing Gao*
Third Place	Authors
Recent progress in flexible tactile sensor systems: from design to applicationSoft Sci 2021;1:3.10.20517/ss.2021.02	Jiefei Zhu, Changjian Zhou, Min Zhang*

Congratulations to the above award-winning scholars, and we welcome you to read the articles. In addition, we sincerely appreciate the authors who have contributed great works to our journal in the past. We look forward to all your continuous support to help us to advance the development of the journal. In the future, SS will continue adhering to the principle of high-quality publishing with higher standards, serve more scholars, publish more high-quality articles, and promote the development and progress of science.