TMLR submission surge sparks debate: should editors desk-reject papers outside expertise?
nanjiang_cs · x · 2026-10-18
- The debate: With TMLR's submission volume surging, area chairs increasingly handle papers outside their expertise and can only mechanically solicit reviews — a pattern argued to be unsustainable as submissions keep growing.
- The proposal: nanjiangcs suggests making expert-editor matching a hard rule: desk reject if the closest editor deems a paper sufficiently outside their area, pushing authors to submit only when a fitting editor exists.
- Context: The thread responds to researcher frustration (@avtim) about the submission process, highlighting governance strain in the ML publishing system.
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