Reviewing an abstract

The invitation

• Organisers invite you by the email of your SHODHX account, usually with a due date. You are notified by email and the invitation appears under Review tasks.
• Before accepting, you see the title and the conference, not the abstract.

Accept or decline

• To accept, confirm that you have no conflict of interest: for example, you are not an author, a close collaborator, a supervisor or student of an author, or a competitor on the same work.
• If you have a conflict or no time, decline and give a short reason. Declining is always acceptable.
• After you accept, the full abstract is shown. In a double-blind conference author names and affiliations are hidden from you.

Write the review

1. Score five criteria from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent): originality, soundness of methods, support for the conclusions, clarity of writing and relevance to the conference.
2. Recommend: accept for oral presentation, accept as poster, accept in either format, or reject.
3. Write comments for the authors: specific and constructive, as you would want to receive them. Authors see these without your name.
4. Use confidential comments for anything only the organisers should read, such as a suspected duplicate submission.

A submitted review is final and cannot be changed, so read it through before you submit.

Confidentiality

• Treat the abstract as confidential: do not share it, cite it or use its unpublished results.
• Do not paste it into AI tools or other services. SHODHX itself never sends manuscripts or reviews to AI services.
• Authors never see your name, your scores or your confidential comments, and none of them appears in the abstract book.