[PRE REVIEW]: SPM 25: open source neuroimaging analysis software

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Submitting author: @pzeidman (Peter Zeidman)
Repository: https://github.com/spm/spm
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Version: 25.01.02
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Commit count by author:

  2025	Guillaume Flandin
  1856	John Ashburner
  1671	Karl Friston
  1114	SPM
  1065	Vladimir Litvak
   848	Andrew Holmes
   616	Volkmar Glauche
   312	Will Penny
   243	Gareth Barnes
   213	Peter Zeidman
   171	Stefan Kiebel
   102	Christophe Phillips
    87	Tim Tierney
    85	Jean-Baptiste Poline
    85	Klaas Enno Stephan
    64	Tom Nichols
    62	Ged Ridgway
    58	Maria Joao Rosa
    56	Johan Medrano
    55	Jean Daunizeau
    53	James Kilner
    43	Chloe Hutton
    43	George O'Neill
    39	Jérémie Mattout‬
    37	Rik Henson
    37	Thomas Parr
    35	Rosalyn Moran
    34	Darren Gitelman
    34	Mikael Brudfors
    18	CC Chen
    16	Adeel Razi
    15	Bernadette van Wijk
    12	Nicole Labra Avila
    10	Lee Harrison
    10	NicoleLabrAvila
     8	barnesgr123
     5	--global
     5	Korbinian Eckstein
     5	Mohamed Seghier
     5	Yaël Balbastre
     4	Amirhossein Jafarian
     4	Statistical Parametric Mapping
     3	korbinian90
     3	stephaniemellor
     2	AlexanderNA
     2	Christian Büchel
     2	Jesper Andersson
     2	Oliver Josephs
     2	Sungho Tak
     2	Tibor Auer
     1	Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos
     1	Dimitris Pinotsis
     1	Ferath Kherif
     1	Holly Rossiter
     1	JohnAshburner
     1	Jon Heather
     1	Lars Kasper
     1	Nicholas Alexander
     1	Ryan Timms

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Paper file info:

⚠️ Wordcount for paper.md is 1598

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

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- 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118484 may be a valid DOI for title: Modelling optically pumped magnetometer interferen...
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I can recommend as potential reviewers: Steffen Bollmann (stebo85) and David Hofmann (david-hofmann). Both are open source advocates within the neuroimaging field.