Awards

The editors of Momentum Quarterly have been annually awarding two prizes since the tenth anniversary of the journal: the Momentum Quarterly Best Paper Award and the Momentum Quarterly Impact Award. The award winners are announced in the editorial in the first issue of each year.

Momentum Quarterly Best Paper Award

The Momentum Quarterly Best Paper Award is given for a particularly outstanding paper of the past year. The two-stage selection process by the editors is based on four quality criteria: 1) scope of the question, 2) theoretical contribution and coherence, 3) empirical quality and innovative approach and 4) relevance for society and politics.

Award winners:

2024: Arabella Mühl, Martina Hartner-Tiefenthaler and Silvia Feuchtl, "The implication of overtime for well-being and desired working hours among office workers: The role of temporal flexibility"

2023: Patrick Kaczmarczyk and Andrew Bell, "Preferences for work and leisure: Is labor supply a function of what workers prefer?"

2022: Silke Ötsch, Stephanie Buchholz and Fabian Lochner, "Work in the legal gray zone: Do tax professionals experience a transformative sensemaking crisis?"

2021: Heiner Heiland and Simon Schaupp, "Digital atomization or new labour disputes? An ethnography of resistant solidarity cultures in platformmediated courier work"

Momentum Quarterly Impact Award

The Momentum Quarterly Impact Award is given for the paper that has had the greatest impact measured by citations. The award is based on all citations listed on Google Scholar as of 31 December of the previous year (e.g., 31 December 2023 for the prize in 2024) for both German- or English-language titles. Citations from both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources are added up (excluding self-citations). A plausibility check is then performed by the editors. In case of a tie in citations, the number of abstract & paper views decides. Articles published in Momentum Quarterly ten years ago are eligible (e.g., all papers published in 2015 for the 2024 Impact Award).

Award winners:

2024: Stefan Wallaschek, "In Dialogue: Postcolonial Theory and Intersectionality"

2023: Aram Ziai, "Progressing towards incoherence: Development discourse since the 1980s"

2022: Jan Fichtner, "The Rise of Hedge Funds: A Story of Inequality"

2021: Karin Fischer and Bernhard Leubolt, "On the road to equality? Social Policy in Brasil and Chile after the ‚shift to the left‘"