Announcing Open Neuromorphic Research: Community Peer Review for Open Science

Call for Papers: Open Neuromorphic Research

Open Neuromorphic is launching Open Neuromorphic Research a peer review initiative designed to highlight open, reproducible, and high-impact work in neuromorphic computing. Submissions are reviewed by volunteers from the community and, if approved, receive the ONM Community Approved badge along with a certificate page in our Approved Research Registry.

Whether you’re submitting a research paper, codebase, dataset, or educational tool, ONR gives you a pathway to visibility, constructive feedback, and community validation.

Why Participate?

• Get Recognized: Approved projects receive a badge and are showcased in our registry
• Get Reviewed: Receive constructive feedback from expert volunteers
• Build Trust: Show your commitment to open, transparent science
• Accelerate the Field: Help build a shared ecosystem of reproducible tools

What Can You Submit?

We accept open-source neuromorphic projects including:

• Research codebases (e.g. SNN models, simulators)
• Publication-style papers
• Datasets and preprocessing pipelines
• Educational resources, tutorials, and docs
• Hardware libraries (e.g. for Loihi, Speck, etc.)
• Analysis or visualization tools

Submissions may be GitHub repositories, Jupyter notebooks, whitepapers, or IEEE-formatted papers. All submissions must meet our Definition of Open.

How It Works

1. Prepare Your Submission: Follow the Submitter’s Guide
2. Submit via OpenReview: Use the ONR Submission Portal
3. Community Review: Your submission is reviewed by 3–5 volunteers, based on criteria like clarity, reproducibility, and contribution
4. Receive Recognition: Approved projects are awarded a badge and added to our public registry

Review Criteria

Reviews focus on:

• Relevance to neuromorphic computing
• Clarity and documentation
• Reproducibility of code/methods
• Technical rigor
• Openness (permissive license, transparent methods)
• Community value (benefit to students, researchers, etc.)

Details available in the Review Criteria.

Timeline

• Submissions: Accepted on a rolling basis
• Review turnaround: Typically within 1 month (depending on submission size)
• Decisions: Constructive feedback provided for all submissions. Submissions are either accepted or revisions are requested.

Get Involved

• Submit Your Work
• Become a Reviewer
• Join the #onr-program channel on our Discord
• Contact us at contact@open-neuromorphic.org

About ONR

The ONR initiative supports transparent, community-led peer review in neuromorphic computing. Our mission is to elevate high-quality, open-source projects and promote practices that make research more reproducible, collaborative, and impactful.

For all details, visit the ONR Hub.