The Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award for best paper which is named after Douglas C. Engelbart, in recognition of his life's work and contributions to the field of hypertext and hypermedia.
- 2023 | Mark Anderson and Dave Millard. Seven Hypertexts
- 2022 | Mark Bernstein and Stee McMorris. Links Of Darkness: Hypertext And Horror
- 2021 | Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Mariët Theune and Nava Tintarev. This Item Might Reinforce Your Opinion: Obfuscation and Labeling of Search Results to Mitigate Confirmation Bias
- 2020 | Alessio Antonini, Francesca Benatti and Sally Blackburn-Daniels. On Links To Be: Exercises in Style #2.
- 2019 | Jacob Wobbrock, Anya Hsu, Marijn Burger and Michael Magee. Isolating the Effects of Web Page Visual Appearance on the Perceived Credibility of Online News among College Students.
- 2018 | Lemei Zhang, Peng Liu and Jon Atle Gulla. A Deep Joint Network for Session-based News Recommendations with Contextual Augmentation.
- 2017 | Ujwal Gadiraju, Jie Yang and Alessandro Bozzon. Clarity is a Worthwhile Quality - On the Role of Task Clarity in Microtask Crowdsourcing.
- 2016 | Charlie Hargood, Verity Hunt, Mark Weal and David Millard. Patterns of Sculptural Hypertext in Location Based Narratives.
- 2015 | Axel Schulz, Benedikt Schmidt, and Thorsten Strufe. Small-Scale Incident Detection based on Microposts.
- 2014 | Georges Gouriten, Silviu Maniu, and Pierre Senellart. Scalable, Generic, and Adaptive Systems for Focused Crawling.
- 2013 | David Millard, Charlie Hargood, Michael Jewell, and Mark Weal. Canyons, Deltas and Plains: Towards a Unified Sculptural Model of Location-Based Hypertext.
- 2012 | Björn Elmar Macek, Christoph Scholz, Martin Atzmüller, and Gerd Stumme. Anatomy of a Conference.
- 2011 | Ricardo Kawase, George Papadakis, Eelco Herder and Wolfgang Nejdl. Beyond the Usual Suspects: Context-Aware Revisitation Support.
- 2010 | James Goulding, Tim Brailsford and Helen Ashman. Hyperorders and Transclusion: Understanding Dimensional Hypertext.
- 2009 | Nicolas Neubauer and Klaus Obermayer. Hyperincident Connected Components of Tagging Networks.
- 2008 | Xiaolin Shi, Matthew Bonner, Lada Adamic and Anna Gilbert. The Very Small World of the Well-Connected.
- 2007 | m. c. schraefel | What is an Analogue for the Semantic Web and Why is Having One Important?
- 2006 | Kenneth Anderson, Allan Hansen, and Niels Olof Bouvin. Templates and Queries in Contextual Hypermedia.
- 2005 | Stuart Moulthrop. What the Geeks Know: Hypertext and the Problem of Literacy.
- 2004 | David Kolb. Twin Media : Hypertext Structure Under Pressure
- 2003 | Jocelyne Nanard, Marc Nanard and Peter King. IUHM, a Hypermedia-Based Model for Integrating Open Services, Data and Metadata.