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. Even though numerous solutions have been suggested, to our knowledge, a recent systematic synthesis of the RAP-related literature is missing. To fill this gap and support further RAP-related research, in this paper, we present a scoping review of computational approaches for addressing RAP. Following the latest methodological guidance for scoping reviews, we have collected recent literature on RAP from three databases (Scopus, Google Scholar, DBLP) and, after applying the eligibility criteria, retained 26 studies for extracting and synthesising data on several aspects of RAP research including: i) the overall framing of and approach to RAP; ii) the criteria for reviewer selection; iii) the modelling of candidate reviewers and submissions; iv) the computational methods for matching reviewers and submissions; and v) the methods for evaluating the performance of the proposed solutions. The paper summarises and discusses the findings for each of the aforementioned aspects of RAP research and suggests future research directions.

翻译：同行评审是科学研究不可或缺的组成部分。同行评审的质量（进而影响已发表研究的质量）在很大程度上取决于能否为投稿论文招募到合适的审稿人。然而，由于论文产量持续增长和学者工作量不断加大等因素，寻找此类审稿人日益困难。为缓解这些挑战，实现论文与“高度匹配”审稿人自动关联的解决方案（即通常所称的审稿人分配问题，RAP）已成为三十年的研究主题。尽管已有大量解决方案被提出，但据我们所知，近期缺乏对RAP相关文献的系统性综合梳理。为填补这一空白并推动RAP相关研究，本文对解决RAP的计算方法进行了范围综述。遵循最新的范围综述方法论指南，我们从三个数据库（Scopus、Google Scholar、DBLP）中收集了近期RAP文献，并经过资格筛选后保留26篇研究用于提取和综合分析RAP研究的多方面数据，包括：i) RAP的总体框架与研究方法；ii) 审稿人筛选标准；iii) 候选审稿人与投稿论文的建模方法；iv) 审稿人与论文匹配的计算方法；v) 所提解决方案性能评估方法。本文总结并讨论了上述RAP研究各维度的发现，并提出了未来研究方向。