TACL caps first authors at one submission every three months amid LLM-written paper flood
EhudReiter · x · 2026-11-09
TACL, a top NLP journal, announced a new submission policy: each first author may submit only one new paper every three months (invited resubmissions excluded), with exemptions for TACL Action Editors and Standing Reviewer Team members.
The stated reason: a small number of authors are flooding the journal with large numbers of low-quality, probably LLM-written papers. TACL is deliberately selective—only 82 papers published in 2025, and just one first author had two papers that year, six months apart. The journal also urges authors to submit only top-quality, easy-to-read work.
It's a notable direct countermeasure by a major publication venue against AI-generated paper spam.
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