Run a diagnosis

Every submission and every reviewer is embedded with SPECTER2. Fit is a percentile against the whole expert database: fit 99 means someone's recent work is closer to the paper than 99% of the 1.2 million active experts. Strong means fit 99 or more, a specialist 99.9 or more. A paper is ill when the pool cannot give it 3 strong reviewers at the same time within everyone's load, has no specialist, or, after solving, is under-assigned or has an assigned person outside the top 5%. A topic is a cluster of similar submissions; it is under-covered when at least 15% of its strong slots cannot be filled. Candidates must meet the saved reviewer bar and have no authorship or recent co-authorship with the paper's authors.

Close the gaps — 5 experts would fill 5 of the 5 missing strong slots on the ill papers

Chosen one at a time: each takes up to 5 ill papers where they fit best, favouring the papers covered least so far. Invite more than you need; not everyone accepts.

Ill papers — most severe first

Topics — submission clusters; coverage = strong slots the pool can fill at once