2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

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ARR Team Update

  • Current Team: ARR Organization Page
    • Active Editors-in-Chief (EiCs): Vincent Ng, Anna Rogers, Jing Jiang, Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
    • Outgoing EiCs: Jun Suziki, Viviane Moreira (Thank you Jun and Viviane!)
    • EiCs stepped down in the past 6 months: Tharmar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid, Mausam
    • Four new EiCs (Sep 2024): Michael White, Xiaodan Zhu, Sarvnaz Karimi, and Margot Mieskes
    • Tech Team: Sudipta Kar (co-CTO), Freda Shi (co-CTO), Jonathan Kummerfeld (outgoing CTO)
    • New support members: With the support from ACL, two new support members hired: Editorial assistant (Sonakshi Chauhan) and Workflow manager (Holy Lovenia)
  • Recruitment: An advertisement has been posted to recruit the 2025 batch of new EiCs, who are expected to start in September/October 2025. We hope to recruit
more editors to represent India and China, as these locations have a large volume of submissions.

Summary of Submission of Recent Cycles

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More information can be found at: ARR Statistics

Changes Made in the Past Six Months

  • Starting from the May 2025 cycle, ARR implemented the new 10-week cycle schedule
Background: In the past (from October 2022 to February 2025), ARR ran 8-week review cycles,
with submission deadlines on the 15th of every second month [1]. After extensive deliberation and
soliciting community feedback [2], the ACL Peer Review Committee [3] recommended to ACL Exec to
switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki [4].
  • Changes implemented to cope with the increasing submissions:
    • From the May 2025 cycle (EMNLP), following ACL Exec suggestion, all qualified authors of a submitted paper must review.
    • In the February 2025 (ACL) cycle: each paper needs to nominate an author who will complete at least 4 reviews, and more
reviews required when submitting multiple papers.
  • Detailed changes in the last two ARR cycles:
    • May 2025:
      • Updating Area Keywords at ARR [5] (leads: Anna, Mike, EMNLP’25 PCs)
      • Migrating to the new 10-week cycle schedule (leads: Anna)
      • New philosophy and implementation for workload requirement, inspired by CVPR 25: all qualified authors now expected to review [6] (leads: Jonathan, Anna, Mike)
      • Updating reviewer sign-up forms (leads: Jonathan)
      • Contributing to development of the new policy on incentives in peer review at ARR [7]
      • Updating openreview forms, guidelines and documentation accordingly (leads: Anna, Sarv)
    • Feb 2025:
      • Optimizing the AC assignments so that each AC works with fewer SACs (leads: Freda, Harold)
      • Developing a workflow for processing reported cases of publication ethics [8] violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee [9] (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
      • Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
      • Updating the workload requirement [10], in consultation with ACL’25 PCs (leads: Jing, Xiaodan)
      • Corresponding updates to the guidelines and email templates (leads: Anna)
      • Developing new timeline for the new 10-week cycles (leads: Anna)
      • Developing a proposal for a development server (leads: Sudipta)
      • Contributing to discussions by the ACL peer review committee on review incentive policies
  • More changes in the past cycles can be found at the ARR change log:
ARR Changelog

Open Issues being Coped With

  • AI-generated papers
  • AI-generated reviews
  • Fake researcher profiles