| Assist Prof Dr | Francisco David | Guillén-Gámez | Faculty of Education, University of Málaga | Spain | Social Media Platforms and Their Features | Youtube | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Zhenghao | Tong | Department of Clothing & Textiles at Yonsei University | South Korea | Social Media Platforms and Their Features | Consumer behavior | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Fangcheng | Tang | Beijing University of Chemical Technology | China | Social Media Platforms and Their Features | Collaborative Pattern of Platform and Their Network Structure | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | Louisa | Sylvia | Massachussets General Hospital | United States | Social Media Platforms and Their Features | Psychiatry/depression | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | dilek | Uludaşdemir | Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi | Turkey | Social Media Platforms and Their Features | Cyberbullying, digital parenting, digital privacy, cyberbullying awareness program | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Marco | Caetano | INSPER | Brazil | Social Media Metrics and Measurement | Modelling of dynamic systems | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Ramona-Diana | Leon | Universitat Politecnica de Valencia | Spain | Social Media Metrics and Measurement | Enterprise Social Networks | Excellence in Research |
| Prof | María M. | Muñoz | Universidad de Málaga Facultad de Comercio y Gestión | Spain | Social Media Metrics and Measurement | Multicriteria Analysis | Best Research Award |
| Dr | Hamza | Ighnih | Ibn Zohr University | Morocco | Social Media Metrics and Measurement | Scientific research | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Weijun | Ma | School of Psychology and Cognitive science, East China Normal University (ECNU), China | China | Social Media Metrics and Measurement | Social and Clinical psychology | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | AYSE BERNA | ALTINEL GİRGİN | MARMARA UNIVERSITY | Turkey | Social Media Metrics and Measurement | Social network analysis, Opinion leader detection, Sentiment polarity score, PageRank algorithm, Flow of influence | Women Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mudasir | Mohd | University of Kashmir | India | Social Media Metrics and Measurement | Text processing | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Cécile | Zachlod | FHNW | Switzerland | Social Media Metrics and Measurement | Social media analytics, Social media analysis, Social media data, Social media monitoring, Social media listening | Top Researcher Award |
| Mr | Jorge | Montejano | Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de Información Geoespacial, A.C. | Mexico | Social Media Metrics and Measurement | Urban Studies | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Manikandan | Sathianarayanan | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | Social Media Crisis Management | Disaster studies | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Rahul | Kumar | Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur | India | Social Media Crisis Management | Crisis Management | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Bhuvana | N | Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun College for Women | India | Social Media Crisis Management | Disaster, Women, Children, Advertising, Development Communication | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Marek | Gmerski | Kozminski University | Poland | Social Media Crisis Management | Project Managegment | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Christine | Buzinde | Arizona State University | United States | Social Media and Digital Marketing Strategy | Tourism | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Gurpreet | Singh | Chandigarh University, Mohali | India | Social Media and Digital Marketing Strategy | Big Data as a Service | Best Researcher Award |