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Record W3173694828 · doi:10.1353/lan.2021.0028

The Editors' Report

2021· article· en· W3173694828 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueLanguage · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublicationWorkloadPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PsychologySet (abstract data type)Applied linguisticsSociologyLinguisticsComputer sciencePolitical scienceMedicineLaw

Abstract

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The Editors' Report Andries W. Coetzee, Editor and John Beavers, Co-Editor [The following is a slightly modified and updated version of the report made verbally to the LSA membership at the virtual annual meeting, on January 4, 2021.] In spite of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was another successful year at Language, during which we maintained a good submission record and a good time-to-decision. It was also a time of transition in the editorial team—we said goodbye to several members of the team, and also welcomed new members. We appreciate the continued support of the linguistics community for Language and for the work that we do as an editorial team. It takes the whole community to maintain Language as one of the prime publication venues in linguistics. 1. Impact of COVID-19 on language Although operations at Language were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to publish all four issues for 2020 on time, and we are also similarly set for at least the first two issues of 2021. This is in no small part due to the dedication of the members of the Language editorial team and to referees who made time to prepare reports even as they were dealing with significant increases in workload and family care responsibilities. We express our deep appreciation to the linguistics community for their continued support of the LSA's publication program. The ways in which the pandemic has impacted operations at Language are reflected in a slight decrease in the number of submissions (most likely due to authors having less time to dedicate to research) and a small increase in the time-to-decision (due to referees and editorial team members needing more time to complete tasks) compared to 2019. Although the effects did not impact the publication schedule for 2020, there is a possibility that some of the issues of 2021 may be a bit slimmer than usual. 2. Changes in the editorial team After three years as review editor, Lauren Squires (Ohio State University) stepped down from this position. Three associate editors cycled off from the editorial team at the end of their terms: Khalil Iskarous (University of Southern California), Lisa Travis (McGill University), and David Willis (Oxford University). Additionally, Shravan Vasishth also ended his service as associate editor during the course of 2020. We extend our appreciation to all of these individuals for their service to the LSA and the linguistics community. At the beginning of 2021, Jessi Grieser (University of Tennessee) joined the Language editorial leadership team as review editor. Toward the end of 2020 or the beginning of 2021 we were also joined by several new associate editors: Lisa Cheng (Leiden University), Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of British Columbia), Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh), and Titus von der Malsburg (University of Potsdam). We look forward to working with these new members of the Language editorial team in the coming years. 3. Language by the numbers Volume 96 of Language consisted of four issues comprising 973 pages in the printed section, containing twenty-five research articles, one letter to the editor, and seventeen book reviews. The online sections of the volume had 343 pages, consisting of two articles in Teaching Linguistics, eight in Research Reports, one in Commentaries, and one target article in the Perspectives section, with seven responses. [End Page 432] During 2020, we received a total of 159 submissions. Table 1 shows the breakdown of submissions by journal section for 2020. The numbers from 2018 and 2019 are included for comparison. Click for larger view View full resolution Table 1. Submission by journal section for 2018, 2019, and 2020. For manuscripts submitted during 2020, the average time between submission and the various kinds of editorial decisions are given in Table 2 (with 2018 and 2019 included for comparison). Click for larger view View full resolution Table 2. Average number of days for various editorial decisions during 2018, 2019, and 2020. Starting in January 2019, authors indicate the primary field of their manuscript during the submission process, using the same categories as those used for abstract submissions to the annual meeting. Table 3...

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.603
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it