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:
Open Issues that are being coped with
- AI-generated papers
- AI-generated reviews
- Fake researcher profiles