Description
The Publication Award recognizes outstanding contributions to T&E literature. ITEA presents this award to honor individuals whose published books or technical papers have improved and increased the general body of knowledge relevant to better understanding and development of T&E technology. The literary works considered may be broad in scope or may address a single functional area that is included under the T&E umbrella.
Eligibility
The Publications Award may be awarded to any author or authors whose literary work is of high quality and addresses test and evaluation topics. Membership in ITEA is not required; however, the literary works for which the author is nominated should complement ITEA’s goals. Co-authors are eligible for joint recognition. Teams, organizations, or institutions are not eligible. The following prerequisites also apply:
- Published work must be original and must adhere to the accepted practices of scholarly research methods. Proper credits must be given where material is drawn from other sources; the conclusions are to be suitably justified, and statements of opinion are to be identified as such.
- An author can only receive this award one time for the same publication.
- Only published works available to the public will be considered.
Evaluation Criteria
- Published works will generally be ranked according to the following hierarchy:
- Books by a single author.
- Books by co-authors.
- Books by an editor.
- Monograph series.
- Monograph.
- Refereed article in a published journal.
- Tutorial text.
- Television script, where authorship is specified.
- Relative impact of the published work in terms of its influence in the T&E field.
- The degree to which the author drew upon approved research methods in the justification of any conclusions.
- The organization of the published material, editorial style, and conciseness of presentation.