The Sawamura Award, the best paper award of the journal ISIJ International, is given to the contributor of the most academically and technically useful paper published in ISIJ International over the past year.
The Distinguished Article Award has newly been instituted in 2019 to praise the most influential paper in academic and/or technical respects over the past ten years. The award-winning paper is to be chosen from among the articles published in Tetsu-to-Hagané and/or ISIJ International journals ten (± one) years ago as a general rule.