Martin Black award for the best paper published in 2013

The publishers of Physiological Measurement (PMEA), IOP Publishing, in association with the journal owners, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), jointly award an annual prize for the best paper published in PMEA during the previous year. The responsibility for deciding the ultimate winner falls to the Editorial and International Advisory boards of the journal. A shortlist is constructed using the comments and ratings of our expert referees.

For the 2013 award, seven papers were shortlisted, and Board Members personally assessed and ranked the selected papers.

This year, all of the papers received praise from the boards, but one paper emerged as a clear winner. We have much pleasure in advising readers that the 2013 Martin Black award goes to Benjamin Sanchez et al for their outstanding paper describing a new measuring and identification approach for time-varying bioimpedance.

A new measuring and identification approach for time-varying bioimpedance using multisine electrical impedance spectroscopy

2013 Physiol. Meas. 34 339–357

B Sanchez¹, E Louarroudi², E Jorge³, J Cinca³, R Bragos¹ and R Pintelon²

¹ Electronic and Biomedical Instrumentation Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), E-08034 Barcelona, Spain

² Department of Fundamental Electricity (ELEC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

³ Cardiology Service, Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau (HSCSP), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) IIb-Sant Pau, Barcelona E-08025, Spain

All of the shortlisted papers were of great merit, and the full top seven are listed below (in alphabetical order). The 2013 award sees the first time that the same group of authors have had two of their papers listed in the shortlist. In 2014, we have already published many high quality papers that should make the next award very competitive. We look forward to seeing the outstanding work that will be published by our authors during the rest of the year.

Randall Moorman

Editor-in-Chief

Jon Ruffle

Publisher