JQD:DM Award Winners!

We are pleased to announce the inaugural winners of two best paper awards! The first award goes to the best paper using data from the global south, either exclusively or as part of a cross-country analysis; the second award is for the best paper engaged in quantitative description on an under-studied phenomenon, hoping to highlight the creative and innovative side of quantitative description.

These awards are drawn from all papers we published through the end of 2023. Moving forward, we hope to make the awards annual or semi-annual.

Congrats to our winners! As a prize, we’re going to be making these papers open access for the next three months! (Just kidding… our manuscripts already are and always will be open access, with no submission or publication fees.)

Best Paper Using Data from the Global South:

• “People are more engaged on Facebook as they get older, especially in politics: evidence from users in 46 countries” (Marcio Moretto, Pablo Ortellado, Gabriel Kessler, Gabriel Vommaro, Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Raga, Juan Pablo Luna, Eduarth Heinen, Laura Fernanda Cely, Sergio Toro)
• Runner up: “What Circulates on Partisan WhatsApp in India? Insights from an Unusual Dataset” (Simon Chauchard, Kiran Garimella)

Best Paper Engaged in Quantitative Description on an Under-studied Phenomenon:

• “Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of ‘being talked about’ for United States’ presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop” (Peter Dodds, Joshua Minot, Michael Arnold, Thayer Alshaabi, Jane Adams, David Dewhurst, Andrew Reagan, Christopher Danforth)
• Runner up: “Tweeting Public Service Complaints” (William O’Brochta)