2016Q1 Reports: CL Journal

Our raw submission numbers appear to keep the healthy trend of previous years, in the period from July 2015 to February 2016, we have received 75 submissions and resubmissions, of which half were rejected as not suitable, 7 were accepted in the time period and 31 are still under review.

We receive many surveys proposals and are in the final rounds of a special issue on Formal Distributional Semantics. We keep experiencing considerable reviewers fatigue, with a lot of refusals and a lot of late submissions of reviews.

The OJS system has created new problems around the end of the year that are now fixed.

On the one hand, the journal has reflected in this period several sad events in the community, with obituaries for Jane Robinson and Adam Kilgarriff,

and one coming for Susan Armstrong.

On the other hand, the liveliness and centrality of NLP for the scientific community is reflected by the fact that the write up for Chris Manning's presidential address, on NLP and deep learning, has instantly gotten attention and was the most shared article of MIT press in November 2015. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/mostshared_archive?curLocale=1​

We have opted in for some features to help disseminate metadata about the articles, and enhance visibility of the journal. We have adopted ORCID numbers for future publications -- ORCIDs are unique identifiers used to link researchers with their scholarly works​. We plan to opt in for CrossMark -- which records status and record of paper --- as soon as they will be integrated in the OJS platform.

I will open discussion on whether to adopt the CRedIT system at the 2016 teleconference and proceed according to the decision taken there.

CRediT

“CRediT” stands for “Contributor Roles Taxonomy” and is designed to better communicate the different ways in which researchers contribute to scholarly output. Displaying and depositing CRediT is in the early stages of rollout, with Cell Press and Ubiquity Press as early adaptors. See a sample of how Cell Press is managing this here (scroll down to the Author Contributions section).​

Statistics

Average time to first decision including not suitable articles is 33 days . Average time to decision (excluding "reject (not suitable)") is 115 days. The three most represented countries are, US, UK, and Germany.