ACL caps authors at 20 submissions and 5 first-author papers per cycle

TuhinChakr · x · 2026-09-11

ACL has introduced per-author quotas: a maximum of 20 total submissions and 5 first-author (including shared first-author) papers per cycle, with details to follow on the ACL website.

Commenters note the cap still seems high, arguing a good researcher can meaningfully contribute to at most 10 papers contemporaneously. The move responds to surging submission volumes and paper inflation in NLP.

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