The IJCNN 2025 Review Process
This is an incremental analysis of conference logistics, relevant to organizers and researchers in neural networks.
The paper describes the review process for IJCNN 2025, which handled 5,526 submissions and accepted 2,152 papers, representing a 100% growth in submissions and over 50% growth in attendees compared to the previous edition.
The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) is the premier international conference in the area of neural networks theory, analysis, and applications. The 2025 edition of the conference comprised 5,526 paper submissions, 7,877 active reviewers, 426 area chairs, 2,152 accepted papers, and more than 2,300 attendees. This represents a growth of about 100% in terms of submissions, 200% in terms of reviewers, and over 50% in terms of attendees as compared to the previous edition. In this paper, we describe several key aspects of the whole review process, including a strategy for ranking the scores provided by the reviewers by evaluating a score index and a calibrated version used experimentally to remove reviewer-specific bias from reviews.