2016Q3 Reports: TACL Journal Editor

(We are grateful to have received an extension on filing our report until July 22 from ACL Secretary Shiqi Zhao. --the TACL editors in chief)

Some statistics

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 drop in the last two months is due at least in part to 13 papers submitted in that period that have not yet received a decision. Also, not counted: papers handled using START (the early days of TACL), papers, papers archived for some technical or formatting problem. The decision time for papers submitted late in a month is counted as starting from the first of the next month.