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Journal Best Paper Award

The Journal Best Paper Award, supported by the Foot and Ankle Journal, is given once a year in recognition for the best research study presented published in the journal during the past year. The Awards is given during the EFAS International Congress or during the EFAS Symposium.

The Selected research study will be remunerated with €1000 honorarium and an official Elsevier recognition certificate. 

Winners of the Foot and Ankle Journal Awards:

- 2023 FAS Best Paper Award:

A. Mousa, A. E. Fathy Howaidy, A. F. Mohamed, M. Mokthar Abd-Ella

Coalition excision and corrective osteotomies versus coalition excision and arthroereisis in management of pes planovalgus with talo-calcaneal coalition in adolescents: A randomized controlled trial

- 2022 FAS Best Paper Award:

H. Koivu, S. Kormi, I. Kohonen and H. Tiusanen

The motion between components in a mobile-bearing total ankle replacement measured by cone-beam CT scanning.

- 2021 FAS Best Paper Award:

J. Kim, J-B Kim and W-C Lee

Eccentric ankle arthritis in the sagittal plane: a novel description of anterior and posterior ankle arthritis.

- 2020 FAS Best Paper Award:

M. Peiffer, C. Belvedere, S. Clockaerts, T. Leenders, A. Leardini, E. Audenaert, J. Victor, A. Burssens and the Weightbearing CT International Study Group

Three-dimensional displacement after a medializing calcaneal osteotomy in relation to the osteotomy angle and hindfoot alignment

- 2019 FAS Best Paper Award:

K. Malhotra, M. Welck, N. Cullen, D. Singh and A. J. Goldberg

The effects of weight bearing on the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis: A study comparing weight bearing-CT with conventional CT.

- 2018 FAS Best Paper Award:

M. Richter, P.-H. Agren, J.-L. Besse, M. Coester, H. Kofoed, N. Maffulli, D. Rosenbaum, M. Steultjens, F. Alvarez, A. Boszczyk, K. Buedts, M. Guelfi, H. Liszka, J.-W. Louwerens, J.-P. Repo, E. Samaila, M. Stephens, A.G.H. Witteveen

Multilingual Development and Validation of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) by the Score Committee of the European Foot and Ankle Society (EFAS).

- 2017 FAS Best Paper Award:

Dr. K. Dullaert, J.E. Hagen, P. Simons, F. Gras, B. Gueorguiev, R. G. Richards, K. Klos

Influence of tibialis posterior muscle activation on foot anatomy under axial loading: A biomechanical CT human cadaveric study