Reviewer assignment problem: A scoping review

Understand

Peer review is an integral component of scientific research.

• The quality of peer review, and consequently the published research, depends to a large extent on the ability to recruit adequate reviewers for submitted papers.
• However, finding such reviewers is an increasingly difficult task due to several factors, such as the continuous increase both in the production of scientific papers and the workload of scholars.
• To mitigate these challenges, solutions for automated association of papers with "well matching" reviewers - the task often referred to as reviewer assignment problem (RAP) - have been the subject of research for thirty years now.