Variants of CLOSET
Mini CLOSET: This variant is designed for venues that cannot release the paper assignment details to external parties (e.g., double-blind venues). Mini CLOSET is a "smaller" version of CLOSET that takes as input a list of authors in a venue (name, affiliation, email) and a list of PC/SPC members (name, institution, and email). It generates reports on co-authorship relationships (if any) between all reviewer-author pairs. Note that it does not flag unreported COIs as paper assignment information is not available. PC chairs can use the output of Mini CLOSET as a guide to assign reviewers to submissions.
J-CLOSET: This variant is designed for journal submissions to aid Associate Editors (AE) to assign COI-free reviewers. It is a light-weight version of CLOSET that takes as input a list of authors in a paper submitted to a journal (name, email) and a list of candidate reviewers (name, institution, and email). It generates reports on any co-authorship relationships between the authors and candidate reviewers. AEs can use the output of J-CLOSET to make a decision on whether a candidate reviewer should be invited to review a submission.
How Can I Use Them?
Mini CLOSET/J-CLOSET is available as a service where a venue chair/EIC gives us access to the aforementioned information and we generate the COI details using it. In order to protect the security and privacy of COI detection code, Mini CLOSET/J-CLOSET is not publicly downloadable.