The Fifth Annual InfoSciR-Journals Excellence in Research Awards, hosted by IGI Global Publishing, was awarded to MR Appleby, CG Lambert, AEW Rennie & AB Buckley for the paper "An Investigation into the Environmental Impact of Product Recovery Methods to Support Sustainable Manufacturing Within Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)", published in the International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering, 2011, 1(2), 1-18, for publications in 2011.