2017Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor

We sincerely thank ACL Secretary Shiqi Zhao for granting us an extension on July 2nd for a new reporting deadline of Tuesday July 25th due to circumstances beyond our control. -- the TACL Editors-in-Chief

(below is an incomplete draft)

Some statistics

Number of submissions and timing of first decision

Depicted below is the history of the number of distinct submission IDs that have received a decision, and the average time to first decision, grouped by round (=nearest first-of-the-month). The decision time for papers submitted within in a month is counted as starting from the first of the next month.

The drop at the end is due to the fact that what is plotted is decided-upon submissions, whereas there were 22 and 19 valid submissions in the June 2017 and July 2017 rounds, respectively; so, the last two months' data will rise in subsequent reports. Also not counted: papers handled using START (the early days of TACL), papers, and the 146 papers archived for some technical or formatting problem.