When used in television news, the term “late-breaking” refers to urgent and/or breaking news stories that must be reported as soon as possible. These stories may interrupt regular programming or interrupt local coverage, such as a tornado warning. These news stories are typically featured on a special ticker during the night, and are highlighted with a lower third to emphasize urgency. Until 24-hour news networks existed, late-breaking reports were more often interrupted with short “cut-ins” or alert crawls that appeared in the lower portion of the screen.
In the same way, the late-breaking abstract submission category recognizes important, high impact research developments that are not ready for presentation by the general abstract submission deadline. These abstracts should be novel (not a direct extension of previously published or presented work) and report new data that is critical to the field. This includes phase 2/3 clinical studies and laboratory-based work that is not suitable for the main e-poster sessions (i.e. case reports, qualitative surveys, ratings scale validation, small confirmatory studies).
Authors of accepted late-breaking abstracts are expected to present their work in an oral platform presentation during the International Congress. Similarly, authors of accepted late-breaking demos are required to showcase their research prototype during the dedicated session. Accepted late-breaking abstracts are also citable and will appear in the meeting planner and mobile app after they have gone through post-review processing. In addition, a non-refundable handling fee is charged for each late-breaking abstract submitted. Lastly, each SfN member can serve as the presenting author of only one late-breaking abstract.
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