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 excluding desk rejects (in contrast to plots from prior reports) in 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.

June and July 2017 actually had 22 and 19 valid submissions, respectively, so the last data points will change as those decisions come in and are included. Also not counted: papers handled using START (the early days of TACL), papers, and the 146 papers archived for some technical or formatting problem.