[tldr:] ARR is expanding its data collection to further insights. Authors can now consent to donate their paper reviews and meta data during paper submission, reviewers and ACs can consent to donate their data for the cycle. Consider donating your peer-review data! You can always revisit this decision as needed.
As the number of submissions increases, our publication model is changing. However, we still do not know much about the path papers take, the decision processes of reviewers, etc. To do just that, we will start collecting data to better understand the submission cycle, gain new insights into review quality and reviewer behavior, and more. This new data will provide ample research opportunities.
With the approval of the ACL Ethics Committee, ACL RR has launched a new peer-review data collection protocol during the April submission cycle. This new protocol builds on the initiative by Gurevych, Kuznetsov and Dycke (2021) and is a community-driven effort.
Read more on this: https://arr-data.aclweb.org/