Best Paper & Reviewer Awards
Every year, the Editorial staff selects the papers from that year that have made the most significant impacts to the theory or practice of risk analysis. The staff also selects reviewers that have contributed high quality reviews to recognize their extraordinary efforts and contributions to the journal. The certificates are awarded at the SRA’s Annual Meeting.
2024 Best Paper
Mohammad Fazel-Zarandi & Arnold Barnett. “Why did US urban homicide spike in 2020? A cross-sectional data analysis for the largest American cities.” Risk Analysis, 44, 7, 1616–1629.
2023 Best Papers
Maddalena Ferranna, Lisa A Robinson, Daniel Cadarette, Michael R Eber, David E Bloom. “The benefits and costs of U.S. employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates.” Risk Analysis, 43(10):, 2053–2068.
Yoshio Kajitani, Norihiko Yamano, Stephanie E Chang. “Modeling economic impacts of mobility restrictions policy during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Risk Analysis, 43(11): 2344-2358
2022 Best Papers
Talbot Andrews & John Ryan. “Preferences for Prevention: People Assume Expensive Problems Have Expensive Solutions” 42(2):370-384.
Claire Heard & Tim Rakow. “Examining Insensitivity to Probability in Evidence-Based Communication of Relative Riks: The Role of Affect and Communication Format.” 42(10):2145-2159.
Valtteri Kallinen & Aaron McFadyen. “Collision Risk Modeling and Analysis for Lateral Separation to Support Unmanned Traffic Management.” 42(4):854-881.
Unal Tatar, Joost Santos, & Shital Thekdi. “Managing Physical and Economic Risk for Systems with Multidirectional Network Interdependencies.” 42(5):1106-1123.
2021 Best Papers
Sudeep Bhatia, Paul Slovic, and Howard Kunreuther. “The More Who Die, the Less We Care: Evidence from Natural Language Analysis of Online News Articles and Social Media Posts”
Ali Mostafavi and N. Emel Ganapati. “Cultivating metacognition in each of us: thinking about ‘thinking’ in interdisciplinary research.”
2020 Best Papers
Enrico Rubaltelli, Giulia Priolo, Sara Scrimin, Ughetta Moscardino. “Media Exposure to Terrorism and Perception of Immigrants as a Threat: The Role of Emotional Intelligence and Psychophysiological Self‐Regulation.” (2020) 40: 1666-1676
Christos Nicolaides, Demetris Avraam, Luis Cueto‐Felgueroso, Marta C. González, Ruben Juanes. “Hand‐Hygiene Mitigation Strategies Against Global Disease Spreading through the Air Transportation Network.”
(2020) 40:723-720
Andrew M. Smith, Andrés D. González, Leonardo Dueñas‐Osorio, Raissa M. D’Souza. “Interdependent Network Recovery Games.” (2020) 40:134-152
Matt Boyd and Nick Wilson. “Existential Risks to Humanity Should Concern International Policymakers and More Could Be Done in Considering Them at the International Governance Level.” (2020) 40 (November)
2019 Best Papers
Terje Aven. “The call for a shift from risk to resilience: What does it mean?” 39(6): 1196-1203.
Sayanti Mukherjee and Roshanak Nateghi. “A data-driven approach to assessing supply inadequacy risks due to climate-induced shifts in electricity demand.” 39(3): Pages 673-694.
Christian Blanco, Felipe Caro and Charles J. Corbett. “Managing safety-related disruptions: Evidence from the US nuclear power industry.” 39(10): 2197-2213.
Edward Oughton, Mike Hapgood, Gemma S. Richardson, Ciarán D. Beggan, Alan W. P. Thomson, Mark Gibbs, Catherine Burnett, C. Trevor Gaunt, Markos Trichas, Rabia Dada, Richard B. Horne. “A risk assessment framework for the socio-economic impacts of electricity transmission infrastructure failure due to space weather: An application to the United Kingdom.” 39(5): 1022-1043.
2018 Best Papers
Daniel J. Rozell, Stony Brook University, for The Ethical Foundations of Risk Analysis.
Carolina Plaza Rodriguez, Guido Correia Carreira, Annemarie Kasbohrer, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany, for A Probabilistic Transmission Model for the Spread of Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase and AmpC- β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia Coli in the Broiler Production Chain.
Robert D. Jagiello and Thomas T. Hills, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, for Bad News Has Wings: Dread Risk Mediates Social Amplification in Risk Communication.
Theresa A. K. Knoblauch, Michael Stauffacher and Evelina Trutnevyte, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, for Communicating Low-Probability High-Consequence Risk, Uncertainty and Expert Confidence: Induced Seismicity of Deep Geothermal Energy and Shale Gas.
2017 Best Papers
Communicating Uncertain Science to the Public: How Amount and Source of Uncertainty Impact Fatalism, Backlash, and Overload. By Jakob D. Jensen, Manusheela Pokharel, Courtney L. Scherr, Andy J. King, Natasha Brown, and Christina Jones, 37(1):40-51.
Comparison or Risk Predicted by Multiple Norovirus Dose-Response Models and Implications for Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment. By Nicole Van Abel, Mary E. Schoen, John C. Kissel, and J. Scott Meschke, 37(2):245-264.
Who is a Distracted Driver? Associations Between Mobile Phone Use While Driving, Domain-Specific Risk-Taking, and Personality. By Madison Sween, Andrea Ceschi, Francesco Tommasi, Ricardo Sartori, and Joshua Weller, 37(11):2119-2131.
Modeling the Transmission of Measles and Rubella to Support Global Management Policy Analyses and Eradication Investment Cases. By Kimberly M. Thompson and Nima D. Badizadegan, 37(6):1109-1131.
2016 Best Papers
Inconsistencies in Risk Analyses for Ambient Air Pollutant Regulations. By Anne Smith, 36(9): 1737-1744.
Linear-No-Threshold Default Assumptions for Noncancer and Nongenotoxic-Cancer Risks: A Mathematical and Biological Critique. By Ken Bogen, 36(3): 589-604.
Asteroid Risk Assessment: A Probabilistic Approach. By Jason Reinhardt, Chen, Xi; Wenhao Liu, Petar Manchev, and M Elisabeth Paté Cornell, 2016; 36(2): 244-261.
2015 Best Papers
Operational Models of Infrastructure Resilience, by David L. Alderson, Gerald G. Brown and
W. Matthew Carlyle, 35(4):562-586.
The Concept of Antifragility and its Implications for the Practice of Risk Analysis, by Terje Aven, 35(3):476–483.
Cognitive and Motivational Biases in Decision and Risk Analysis, by Gilberto Montibeller and
Detlof von Winterfeldt, 35(7):1230–1251.
The Effects of Urban Form on Ambient Air Pollution and Public Health Risk: A Case Study in Raleigh, North Carolina, by Theodore J. Mansfield, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Joseph Huegy and Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, 35(5):901-918
2024 Best Reviewers
Sandra Seno-Alday
Benjamin Trump
Robyn Wilson
Haibo Zhang
2023 Best Reviewers
Roger Flage
Robin Dillon-Merrill
Angela Bearth
2022 Best Reviewers
Timothy Eddy
Floris Goerlandt
Kjell Hausken
Michael Lindell
2020 Best Reviewers
Anca Hanea
Pia-Johanna Schweizer
Ortwin Renn
Roger Flage
2019 Best Reviewers
Hiba Baroud
Tom Logan
Lori Peek
Janet Yang
2018 Best Reviewers
Vivianne Visschers
Christina Demski
John Evans
Angela Bearth
2017 Best Reviewers
William Hallman
Jun Zhuang
Anne Smith
Alexander Ganin
2016 Best Reviewers
Michael Greenberg
Baruch Fischoff
Michael Lindell
Henrik Hassel
2015 Best Reviewers
Roger Flage
Robin Dillon-Merrill
Thekdi, Shital
Robyn Wilson
Michael R. Greenberg (Book Reviewer)