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Abstract selection process

First, abstracts are screened (i.e., in/out) for basic scientific soundness. In case the number of submissions exceeds the availability (i.e., 25 talks and 25 posters), the scientific committee will operate a selection among the received contributions according to the following criteria:
(i) priority boarding for PhD students over post-docs and students
(ii) priority for pre-registered studies, registered reports studies and/or studies that have an accessible repository with data, analysis scripts, digital materials shared in a FAIR format
(iii) limit the overrepresentation of one (or more) research group/institution
(iv) increase diversity in the research topics
(v) "random lottery selection" (see below for further instructions).
In addition, the scientific committee may change the type of submission (e.g., from talk to a poster) in the case the research submitted is more suitable for the other format. This is often suggested for studies with no data yet that we think are more suitable for the poster format. The authors are also asked to declare that the submitted work has not been published yet, meaning that a digital object identifier (DOI) has not been obtained by the publisher at the time of submission. The authors of the selected abstracts will be email-notified within one week after submission deadline, and will be asked to confirm their participation by replying to our email (those who will not reply on time will be excluded from the final program).

Random lottery selection

In the case that a single university or research group submits an excessive number of contributions, the scientific committee will apply a random lottery to determine which contributions are accepted. How the lottery works. Each submission from the same university/research unit will be assigned a random integer using the R function sample() (see code below). The random seed will be determined by the first number extracted from the Italian national lottery for the city of Neaples the day after the abstract submission deadline that is Saturday, December 6, 2025, around 8:00 pm (CET). You can find the results here: https://www.lotto-italia.it/lotto/estratti-ruote . You can then run the following R code to replicate the process:
set.seed(first_number_extracted_by_the_italian_lotto_for_the_city_of_Neaples)
sample(1:20, 20, replace = FALSE)
This will generate the randomized order for the submissions. Contributions will then be selected following this order until the available slots are filled.