Reviewer Guidelines

Thank you once again for agreeing to review for CCN!

Role

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.

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 TPC to make talk selections. Your communications with the Technical Programme Committee (TPC) will take place via OpenReview.

OpenReview Console

The OpenReview console provides an overview of all papers assigned to you. Use the console to track review progress, deadlines, and discussion status. The console allows you to filter papers by status (e.g., "Missing Reviews," "Ready for Decision").

The console points to the forum page for individual submissions, where you can view details, post comments, and engage in discussions specific to a single submission. For a quickstart on how to use the OpenReview forum page, see Using the New Forum Page.

Setting comment visibility

To set comment visibility in OpenReview, use the "Readers" dropdown when posting your comment. Check carefully that the appropriate people can see the comment before posting. For example, to engage in private discussion with an AC or SAC, the comment should be set visible to the AC or SAC and "Program Chairs" only. (The "Program Chairs" on OpenReview are the CCN TPC.)

Timeline

Assignment

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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.

In addition, please make sure that your OpenReview profile has your latest email listed and keep an eye on emails possibly landing in spam.

Review deadline

ea-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.

Reciprocal reviewers

As stated in the submission guidelines, if you are a Reciprocal Reviewer (reviewing as part of an Extended Abstract submission) and do not submit all assigned reviews by this date, the relevant submission(s) may not be considered for a Contributed Talk.

Reviews

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As a reviewer, you will evaluate submissions assigned to you and provide high-quality feedback to help identify work that should be highlighted at CCN as a Contributed Talk.

Review form

Your review should include the following components:

Title

Briefly summarize your perspective on this manuscript.

Ratings

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.

Your comments should:

• Summarize the manuscript's claims and approach

• List strengths and limitations of the manuscript

• 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

Things to flag

If you note any of the following in your submissions, please flag them with the TPC.

Breaches of anonymity

If you find that the identity of the authors is revealed (e.g., names or affiliations can be found in the text, or in included or linked supplementary material), please flag this to your AC or SAC.

Ethical concerns

This includes for instance harm, injury, or unfair bias. If you notice unethical behavior involving authors or reviewers assigned to you, please notify your SAC.

Policies

Confidentiality

Do not discuss, distribute or use ideas, content or code of the submissions. Reviews are double-blind; authors and reviewers do not know each others' identity. Maintain strict confidentiality for all review materials. Don't use or share submission content (ideas, results, code) until publicly available. Never distribute submissions outside the OpenReview platform.

For reviewers: The use of LLMs or other automated tools is prohibited for generating review text or summarizing submissions. Inputting a paper submission into such a tool is a violation of confidentiality.

Conduct

Abide by the CCN Code of Conduct. Take part in an active, polite and constructive manner.

Transparency

Please note that reviews of Extended Abstracts are not made public.

Anonymization

Authors and other reviewers do not know your identity.

Only the TPC knows your identity as a reviewer.

Interdisciplinarity

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

Flexibility

Despite our best efforts to plan this year's process, this is very much a new endeavor and therefore the timeline and guidelines may shift now and then. So please keep an eye on our communications, and we ask for your understanding and patience as we keep developing CCN.

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.