2025Q3 Reports: CL Journal Editor

Submission Growth

Quarter	Submissions
2024	332
2025	493
2026 (as of 2026-06-01)	289

Submissions to the journal grew by 48% in 2025, and this growth has continued into 2026.

Review Timeline

Year	With desk rejection	Without desk rejection
2024	25.9	51.3
2025	14.5	57.7
2026	12.5	59.8

At the same time, we have continued to improve the editorial process, including further reducing the time required for desk-rejection decisions.

Rising Impact

Year	Impact Factor
2023 (release in June 2024)	3.7
2024 (release in June 2025)	5.3
2025 (release in June 2026)	13.4

We are also pleased to share that the latest Impact Factor for Computational Linguistics is 13.4, marking the first time in the journal’s history that it has exceeded 10.

This ranks Computational Linguistics:

13 out of 210 journals in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

7 out of 185 in Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

1 out of 312 in Linguistics

CL Awards

This year, CL launched two new awards: the CL High Impact Paper Award and the CL Distinguished Reviewer Award. Further details will be made available through dedicated wiki pages. The inaugural recipients of these awards will be announced during ACL 2026.

Dissertation Award

CL also continued the Dissertation Award, now in its second year and organized in collaboration with the ACL Executive Committee. We are grateful to all nominators, participants, and colleagues who helped support this initiative. As part of the award, the winning dissertation will be adapted for publication in Computational Linguistics.

The CL editorial office sincerely thanks the community for its continued dedication and support. We warmly encourage authors to continue sending their strongest work to Computational Linguistics.