The Editors’ Report

The Editors' Report John Beavers, Editor and Shelome Gooden, Co-Editor The following is a modified and updated version of the report made to the LSA at the annual business meeting, on January 6th, 2024. 1. Introduction The year 2023 was another successful one for Language. We saw submissions up considerably from the previous year, with an increasing diversity in the areas of submission. All four issues were published on time, for a total number of pages and articles comparable to the previous year. Furthermore, for the first time since 2020 the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have not seemed prevalent. We also saw several transitions off of the editorial team over the course of the year, while also welcoming several new members to the team. Some of these editorial transitions occurred mid-year, and the cumulative effect of all of these transitions was that we also saw a marked increase in time-to-decision. 2. Changes in the editorial team At the beginning of 2023, Shelome Gooden (University of Pittsburgh) stepped into her new role as Co-Editor, and we also welcomed new associate editors to the team who handle general research article and research report submissions. These include Lisa Green (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Jesse Harris (University of California, Los Angeles), Michael Putnam (Penn State University), and Maziar Toosarvandani (University of California, Santa Cruz), as well as a mid-year replacement, Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh). We also had associate editors step down in 2023, including Susi Wurmbrand (Universität Wien), who stepped down mid-year, as well as Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh), Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania), Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of British Columbia), and Titus van der Malsburg (University of Stuttgart), all of whom served three or more years in their roles as associate editor and transitioned off at the end of the year. Beginning in 2024, Erez Levon (University of Bern), Morgan Sonderegger (McGill University), Suzanne Wagner (Michigan State University), and Rachel Walker (University of California, Santa Cruz) have been appointed as their replacements. We also saw transitions among our associate editors in charge of special sections. Colleen Fitzgerald (North Dakota State University) stepped down mid-year as associate editor for Language Revitalization and Documentation and was replaced by Wesley Leonard (University of California, Riverside). Finally, Kazuko Hiramatsu (University of Michigan–Flint) stepped down at the end of 2023 as the founding associate editor for Teaching Linguistics, after a remarkable twelve years in that position, where her guiding vision, careful editorial work, and proactive approach to recruiting high-quality submissions have made that section an especially significant component of the success of Language. In 2024 Catherine Anderson (McMaster University) stepped in as her replacement. 3. Volume 99 Volume 99 of Language consisted of four issues comprising 861 pages in the printed section, containing twenty-one general research articles, three book reviews, two recent publications notices, and one editors' report. The online section of the volume had 221 pages, consisting of four articles in Teaching Linguistics, three in Language and Public Policy, three in Research Reports, and one in Commentaries. End Page 379 4. Submission types and topic of submission During 2023 we received a total of 193 submissions. The breakdown of submissions by section is given in Table 1. The numbers from 2021 and 2022 are included for comparison. Click for larger view View full resolution Table 1. Submissions by journal section for 2021, 2022, and 2023. Starting in January 2019, authors are asked to voluntarily indicate the primary field of their submission, using the same categories as those used for abstract submission to the annual meeting. Table 2 shows the number of submissions by author-reported primary field for 2021, 2022, and 2023. This information is technically collected separately from the submission itself, and sometimes authors do not enter it, meaning that this report is not a comprehensive list of all fields. Hence the totals for all fields reported below will not sum up exactly to the number of articles submitted above. Authors may also indicate secondary and tertiary fields of study, but this information is not included in the table. Click for larger view View...