Missed AAAI reciprocal reviewer nomination deadline — risk of desk rejection? [D]
![Missed AAAI reciprocal reviewer nomination deadline — risk of desk rejection? [D]](https://preview.redd.it/fd85k8fqbnfh1.png?width=140&height=65&auto=webp&s=6dc300ba1cc3750ff86fb3b910f1dd55ab3824cf "Missed AAAI reciprocal reviewer nomination deadline — risk of desk rejection? [D]") |
I submitted an abstract to AAAI AISI and accidentally missed the field asking authors to nominate a reciprocal reviewer by the July 21 AoE deadline. At the time of submission, I knew that I personally did not meet the publication requirements to serve as a reviewer. After adding my graduate-student co-authors to the submission, I realized that one of them was qualified and could fulfill the reciprocal-reviewing obligation, but we overlooked the nomination field before the deadline because it wasn't a required field. As soon as we noticed, we added the qualified co-author to OpenReview as a potential reciprocal reviewer (edits were still accepted) and emailed the workflow chairs. He meets the publication requirements and is willing to complete the full reviewing load. The policy says that if a qualified author is available but no one is nominated, the submission may be desk rejected. The full paper deadline is in two days, and so far we have only received the automated response shown in the attached screenshot. Has anyone dealt with a similar situation at AAAI or another conference? Do you think this is likely to lead to a desk rejection, or are workflow chairs usually willing to correct this kind of administrative mistake when a qualified reviewer is available? submitted by /u/TheSupremeEgger |
