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Reviewer Guidelines

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This is a prior year version of the policies and processes at CCN. Please refer to the current year's documentation for the latest information, as policies and processes may change from year to year.

Thank you once again for agreeing to review for CCN! As a Reviewer, you carry the important responsibility of evaluating submissions, thereby identifying work that should be highlighted at CCN as a Contributed Talk, as well as giving the feedback to other’s work that is vital to the scientific process. This is a living document and we will update it when necessary.

Each submission to the CCN 2025 Extended Abstracts will receive at least 3 high-quality reviews from Reviewers like yourself. After the review period concludes, there will be no discussion period; instead, the reviews will be forwarded to the CCN 2025 Program Chairs to make talk selections. You will receive the reviews for your paper, but they will not be released to the public.

Assignment\ We have done our best to match reviewers with the most appropriate submissions. However, if you recognize a potential conflict of interest; please let the TPC know straight away so that we can re-assign the manuscript. A conflict of interest arises when an author on one of your assigned submissions is a current or former advisor, family or a close personal relationship, a current or recent collaborator; or someone who works in your current or recent immediate organization, or when you have a financial interest in the work.

reviews-due, 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE), is the reviewing deadline. We are counting on you to submit your review(s) on or before this date so that we can move onto the next step of the process. As stated in the submission guidelines, if you are a Reciprocal Reviewer (reviewing as part of a proceedings submission) and do not submit all assigned reviews by this date, the relevant submissions may not be considered for Contributed Talk.

OpenReview

  • The reviewer console provides an overview of all papers assigned to you.

  • By posting comments you can contact the Technical Programme Committee (TPC) at CCN 2025, who act as the “CCN 2025 Extended Abstracts Program Chairs” on OpenReview.

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Review

Things to look out for

If you note any of the below, please flag them with the TPC.

  • Breaches of anonymity: If you find that the identity of the authors is revealed, through, names, affiliations, can be found in the text, in included or linked supplementary material

  • Ethical Concerns: This includes for instance harm, injury, or unfair bias

  • Dual submission: Submissions that are identical or substantially similar to papers that are under review, have been accepted to, or have been published in other archival conferences and journals should be deemed dual submissions.

Content

  • Title: Briefly summarize your perspective on this manuscript

  • Rate the submission on the following criteria (details on the scales in the review form):

  • Interest: To what extent is this relevant to the CCN community? Is this relevant to a specific subfield or of general interest to a broad audience? What is the contribution and novelty of the findings?

  • Soundness: Does the evidence support the claims? Are the right methods used?

  • Clarity: Is this clearly communicated? Are the methods explained in a way that facilitates reproducibility?

  • Confidence: How familiar are you with the relevant literature? Is your knowledge sufficient to understand the manuscript?

  • Comments: This is a long text field where you can write your review.

  • You can incorporate Markdown and Latex into the comments section.

  • Summarize the manuscript’s claims and approach.

  • List strengths and limitations of the manuscript

  • Be sure to cover the dimensions above (Interest, Soundness, Clarity) and motivate your rating. It can also be helpful to explain why you don’t believe a higher or lower rating is appropriate.

  • Note any questions you have for the authors, or requests to clarify something, that could be helpful for authors when presenting the work at CCN.

  • Make suggestions for improvement of the work.

General guidelines

  • Confidentiality; do not discuss, distribute or use ideas, content or code of the submissions you review. (Reviews are double-blind; authors and other reviewers do not know your identity.)

  • The use of LLMs or other automated tools for text generation are prohibited during the review process. Inputting a paper submission into such a tool is a violation of confidentiality.

  • Abide by the CCN Code of Conduct (https://2025.ccneuro.org/code-of-conduct/).

  • Take part in an active, polite and constructive manner.

  • Interdisciplinarity: Keep in mind that a submission may have greater affinity with a domain other than yours.

Lastly, please keep an eye on our communications and we ask for your understanding and patience as we keep developing CCN, including with this move to OpenReview.

Contact Info

If you encounter a situation that you are unable to resolve on your own, please contact the Technical Program Committee (TPC) at tpc@ccneuro.org.

If the issue is related to OpenReview technical issues, email the OpenReview support team directly at info@openreview.net.