What is this?
The Federated Journal Club is an initiative of INDoS (COST Action CA24161, Improving Neuroimaging Data for Sharing) and its Working Group 3 — Automated Preprocessing Pipelines. Summer is when labs quieten, supervisors travel, and trainee projects stall. So we spend it reading: participants collectively read and critically annotate a curated pool of 236 preprocessing papers spanning nine imaging modalities plus a cross-modality methods category. Between us we build a critically-read map of the field that no single lab could assemble alone.
Who runs it. The club is organized by the WG3 co-chairs Oscar Esteban (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) and Guiomar Niso (Cajal Institute, CSIC), with Task Force 3 lead Başak Esin Köktürk Güzel (İzmir Demokrasi University). It is open to everyone — any career stage, any country, INDoS membership not required. We especially encourage trainees, early-career researchers, and participants from Inclusiveness Target Countries.
Where it leads. Every review is scored against a transparent rubric that drives the live leaderboard, and your standing is a major input to invitations to the INDoS Training School, whose first block is built on the annotations gathered here. The annotations themselves become an open meta-review publication, with participating reviewers credited as co-authors. Reading closely for a summer turns into a paper with your name on it.
Full rules and eligibility → How to participate · New to reading papers critically? → How to read a paper