Nomination for the Sawamura Awards and Guimarães Award

The Sawamura Awards will be given to the most valuable articles among all the regular articles that have been published in ISIJ International of Vol. 65 (2025), No. 1 to No.12. At the same time, the Guimarães Award will be given to the most useful regular article

The corresponding author may nominate his (or her) paper by filling out and submitting the recommendation form at the following URL. The author may recommend only one article.

Nomination Form
https://portal.isij.or.jp/acceptance/edit/Award/Sawamura/default.htm

Papers on niobium can be nominated for the Sawamura Award and the Guimarães Award, but not for the Guimarães Prize only.

The deadline for authors to submit nominations is March 19, 2026.