The IEEE Council on Superconductivity sponsors the Van Duzer Prize, awarded to the best contributed paper published in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity during each volume year.

The award is restricted to regular submissions to the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity to encourage authors to prepare well written and comprehensive contributions which may have exceptional archival values and are likely to be cited frequently by other authors. Papers submitted for publication through scientific conference special issues are not eligible.

Candidates for the Prize may be nominated by the Editors of the Transactions and judged by the Editor in Chief. Papers are scored on the following criteria:

1. Expectation that the paper will be highly cited by future authors,
2. Technical excellence of the work described, and
3. Completeness of the paper as an archival record of a finished body of research.

The recipients are announced in the year following the volume year in which the paper appears. Photos of the recipients will be featured in the front of the Transactions issue containing the announcement.