2025Q3 Reports: ARR Editors in Chief

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

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. After extensive deliberation and

soliciting community feedback, the ACL Peer Review Committee recommended to ACL Exec to

switch to 10-week cycles. The full committee report is available in the adminwiki.

• 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 (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 (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
• 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 violations with the help of ACL Publication Ethics Committee (leads: Leon, Kokil, Aoife)
  • Improving submission and review forms (leads: Anna, ACL’25 and EMNLP’25 PCs)
  • Updating the workload requirement, 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 that are being coped with

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