From mechanoecology to sensory physiology to olfactory navigation: the Editors' and Readers' Choice Awards 2025.

Abstract

In celebration of the excellence of articles published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Editors' and Readers' Choice Awards are annually conferred to the top papers in the categories Original Research Paper and Review/Review-History Article. The recipients of the 2025 Editors' Choice Awards were selected based on votes cast by the Editorial Board on articles published in 2024. In the category Original Research Paper, this distinction goes to 'Tonotopic Ca²⁺ dynamics and sound processing in auditory interneurons of the bush-cricket Mecopoda elongata' by Timothy Bayley and Berthold Hedwig (J Comp Physiol A 210:353-369, 2024). In the category Review/Review-History Article, this distinction goes to 'Mechanoecology: biomechanical aspects of insect-plant interactions' by Gianandrea Salerno, Manuela Rebora, Elena Gorb, and Stanislav Gorb (J Comp Physiol A 210:249-265, 2024). The winners of the 2025 Readers' Choice Awards were determined by the number of online accesses of articles published in 2023. In the category Original Research Paper, the winner is 'Coleoptera claws and trichome interlocking' by Gianandrea Salerno, Manuela Rebora, Silvana Piersanti, Valerio Saitta, Elena Gorb, and Stanislav Gorb (J Comp Physiol A 209:299-312, 2023). In the category Review/Review-History Article, the winner is 'Olfactory navigation in arthropods' by Theresa J. Steele, Aaron J. Lanz, and Katherine I. Nagel (J Comp Physiol A 209:467-488, 2023), which already won the Editors' Choice Award in 2024.