2023Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

CL journal achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, an improvement from 7.778 in 2021. This is the highest impact factor that CL journal has achieved since impact factors were tracked for CL journal in 1997. The list of all past CL impact factors is given at the end of this report.

During the past 6 months (January to June 2023), CL journal received 101 first submissions of regular papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. This is an increase from 75 first submissions in the corresponding period (January to June) in 2022, i.e., 34% jump in number of submissions.

Reviewing of all regular papers and full survey papers submitted during January to May 2023 has been completed, and the average time to first decision of these papers (excluding desk rejects) is 34 days. This is an improvement from an average of 47 days for the period January to December 2022.

The published CL papers of the first two issues in 2023 (March and June 2023) comprise 11 regular papers, 1 survey paper, and 4 book reviews. The total number of pages of these two issues is 523.

Since March 2020, CL journal papers (regular papers only and excluding survey papers) are eligible for presentation at one of the *ACL/EMNLP conferences, if the papers are new (not extension of previous conference papers) and the authors choose to present their papers. Most authors opt to present their papers. 1 paper was presented at EACL 2023 and 8 papers were presented at ACL 2023.

Hwee Tou Ng

Year	Impact Factor
1997	0.595
1998	0.273
1999	0.500
2000	1.146
2001	0.750
2002	0.800
2003	1.515
2004	1.657
2005	2.676
2006	1.800
2007	2.367
2008	2.656
2009	2.212
2010	2.971
2011	0.721
2012	0.940
2013	1.468
2014	1.226
2015	2.017
2016	2.528
2017	1.319
2018	2.130
2019	2.510
2020	2.271
2021	7.778