Run a diagnosis

Every submission and every area chair 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 1 strong area chair 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 area-chair bar and have no authorship or recent co-authorship with the paper's authors.

There are no area chairs in the pool yet, so every paper will look ill. For an empty pool, plan an initial pool instead.