| 2024 | Patty Baskin |
| 2023 | Angela Cochran |
| 2022 | Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications |
| 2021 | Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) |
| 2020 | Center for Open Science |
| 2019 | Public Library of Science (PLOS) |
| 2018 | Annette Flanagin |
| 2017 | EQUATOR Network |
| 2016 | Ana Marušić, MD, PhD |
| 2015 | Amy Brand |
| 2014 | ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) |
| 2013 | Charlotte Haug |
| 2012 | Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) |
| 2011 | John Sack |
| 2010 | Barbara Gastel |
| 2009 | CrossRef |
| 2008 | Debra M Parrish |
| 2007 | Douglas G Altman |
| 2006 | David Dickson |
| 2005 | Martin Blume and Paul Ginsparg |
| 2004 | Bradley Hundley |
| 2003 | Marcia Angell |
| 2002 | Bruce Dancik |
| 2001 | Drummond Rennie |
| 2000 | Lee N. Miller |
| 1999 | Floyd E Bloom and Science |
| 1998 | Brian Haynes |
| 1996 | National Library of Medicine |
| 1995 | John C Bailar, III |
| 1994 | Claude T Bishop |
| 1993 | Stephen P Lock |
| 1992 | Eugene Garfield |
| 1991 | Philip L Altman |
| 1990 | H Edward Kennedy |
| 1989 | Maeve O’Connor |
| 1988 | Robert A Day |
| 1987 | Edward J Huth |
| 1986 | Gilbert F Otto |
| 1985 | Karl F Heumann |
| 1984 | Erwin Neter (posthumously) |
| 1983 | Margaret Broadbent |
| 1982 | John O Corliss |
| 1981 | William C Steere |
| 1979 | H Bentley Glass |
| 1978 | Franz J Ingelfinger |
| 1977 | John T Edsall |
| 1976 | Phyllis V Parkins |
| 1975 | Milton O Lee |
| 1973 | J Roger Porter |
| 1972 | Robert E Gordon |
| 1969 | Fred R Cagle (posthumously) |