TMLR floods with submissions; co-EiC quizzes authors on their own papers

furongh · x · 2026-09-17

TMLR has tightened desk-rejection policies amid a deluge of submissions and limited reviewer capacity. Co-EiC Nihar Shah asked authors of 10 papers slated for desk rejection to answer questions about their own submissions—an approach peers hail as a potential savior of peer review.

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