Lothar Kämpfe Publikation Award

Applicants must have been members of the Institute of Zoology in the year of publication and must be the first author of the submitted work. Articles from the previous year in which the prize is awarded that originate from B.Sc., M.Sc. or doctoral studies and are submitted no later than one year after the first author's doctoral studies will be considered. Self-applications and nominations by other members of the institute are possible. Proposals are accepted by the Executive Director of the Institute (pdf file by e-mail, CC Kerstin Wulff). The deadline for submission and application is 31 March of the year following the year of publication of the work.

The group leaders and post-docs of the Institute of Zoology evaluate the submitted papers according to quality criteria, especially according to:

• originality (hypotheses, theories, models, etc),
• relevance for the respective field of research,
• quality (methods, analyses, implications),
• presentation of the data and
• reputation of the journal in the respective field of research.