Best Paper Award
| ASME Unit: | Tribology Division (TRIB) |
| Date Established: | 1974 |
| Achievement: | Paper judged as the best of all papers accepted to the Journal of Tribology (JOT) during the previous year. |
| Limitations: | none |
| Nomination Deadline: | 7/1 |
| Form of Award: | Certificate |
| Frequency of Award: | Annual |
| Administrative: | Tribology Division |
| Level of Award: | Division |
| Selected By: | Editorial Board of the JOT and the Honors and Awards Chair of the Tribology Division |
| Selecting Process: | All papers accepted for the previous year'/s JOT are reviewed by the JOT Editorial Board and the Honors and Awards Chair of the Tribology Division. |
| Funding: | Tribology Division Custodian Account |
| Date Created: | 10/18/2000 |
| Date Modified: | 10/23/2012 |
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Winners of the Best Paper Award (TRIB)
| 2016 | Xiaomong Tong, Alan Palazzolo, Junho Suh | 2004 | Armando Felix Quinonez, Pascal Ehret, Jonathan Summers |
| 2015 |
T.J. Zolper, P. Shiller, M. Jungk, T.J. Marks, Y-W Chung, |
2003 | Doug F. Wang, Koji Kato, H.R. Le, M.P.F. Sutcliffe |
| 2014 | Alan Palazzolo, Junho Suh | 2002 | Ivan Iordanoff, Bertrand Seve, Yves Berthier |
| 2013 | Shangwu Xiong, Qian Jane Wang | 2001 | M. Kotzalas, T. Harris |
| 2012 | Kyuho Sim, Jangwon Lee, Yong-Bok Lee, Tae Ho Kim | 2000 | L. Shan, J. Levert, L. Meade, J. Tichy, S. Danyluk |
| 2011 | Tae Ho Kim, Luis San Andres | 1999 | P. Ehret, D. Dowson, C.M. Taylor |
| 2010 | H. Yu, R. Ahmed, H. de Villiers Lovelock, S. Davies | 1998 | J. Sugimura, W.R. Jones, H.A. Spikes |
| 2008 | Francis E Kennedy, Douglas W. Van Citters, Khanittha Wongseedakaew, Mongkol Mongkolwongrojn |
1997 | H. Matsuoka, T. Kato |
| 2007 | Guy Bayada, Sébastien Martin, Carlos Vázquez | 1996 | Y. Mitsuya, Y. Kawabe, L. Lunde |
| 2006 | Yun-Bo Yi | 1995 | Y. Mitsuya, A. Mitsui, Y. Kawabe, L. Lunde |
| 2005 | Guy Bayada, Sebastien Martin, Carlos Vasquez |