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Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN 2307-387X · The MIT Press · United States
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics: CAS Zone 2 · Computer Science (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 11.86; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 80 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is published by The MIT Press and is in Zone 2 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, together about 66.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
TACL invites paper submissions in all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing. Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, and relevance to computational linguistics and natural language processing. TACL has the goal of coverage of a broad range of topics. We invite papers in the following four broad categories: theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, resources/evaluation, and applications/tools.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Asli CelikyilmazPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Topic ModelingComputer Science31.5%
- Natural Language Processing TechniquesComputer Science26.9%
- Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsComputer Science7.9%
- Text Readability and SimplificationComputer Science4.7%
- Speech and dialogue systemsComputer Science3.9%
- Advanced Text Analysis TechniquesComputer Science2.8%
- Speech Recognition and SynthesisComputer Science2.5%
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion MiningComputer Science1.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Computer Science Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Language & Linguistics | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Computer Science Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Language & Linguistics | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Computer Science Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Language & Linguistics | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Linguistics | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIAHCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 11.86LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 11.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 30.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.14LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 6.02LetPub ·
- h-index
- 118OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 529OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 13.42OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 1.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.64%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 81LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 1Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 925 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 110 | 110 | 50 |
| 2025 | 80 | 80 | 325 |
| 2024 | 96 | 96 | 3,462 |
| 2023 | 100 | 100 | 2,911 |
| 2022 | 84 | 84 | 4,162 |
| 2021 | 92 | 92 | 6,159 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- No other fees
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use Value Drifts: Tracing Value Alignment During LLM Post-Training
Model Directions, Not Words: Mechanistic Topic Models Using Sparse Autoencoders
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest
9-month embargo on papers rejected from or reviewed by ACL, AACL, EACL, NAACL, or EMNLP conferences. Model summary
Papers or revised versions of papers that have been rejected from or reviewed by [*] the ACL, AACL, EACL, NAACL, or EMNLP conferences will not be eligible for submission to TACL for a 9-month period beginning at the submission deadline for the conference in question.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Copyright for TACL papers is held by the Association for Computational Linguistics, and articles are distributed under Creative Commons License CC-BY. However, for TACL papers published in volumes 1 or 2 or in volume 3 up to and including page 403, the original published pdfs may not include a note about licensing or may mention Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 instead.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Immediate open access; no author processing charges or submission charges. Model summary
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. TACL imposes neither author processing charges or nor submission charges. (Hence, the waiver policy is that submission to and publication in TACL are already free for all authors.) Find out more about open access here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Double-blind peer review; action editors are non-anonymous. Model summary
Editorial Structure TACL has a standing committee of action editors. Roughly speaking, an action editor corresponds to an area chair at a regular conference. Terms for action editors are two years in length, and are renewable. Each paper submission is assigned to an action editor, who then handles the entire reviewing process for the paper. The action editor makes the final acceptance decision on …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Papers For Which a Preprint Version Was Posted Outside The Anonymity Window
Preprint servers such as arXiv.org and (tracks of) ACL-related workshops that have not been declared to be archival are not considered archival for purposes of submission to TACL. However, authors must state in the “Comments to the Editor” field: the name of the workshop or preprint server the title of the non-archival version URL for it date it was made available. The submitted version should be …
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2307-387X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 14 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
What CAS zone is Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is in Zone 2 of Computer Science, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence / Language & Linguistics / Linguistics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Computer Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 11.86; CiteScore 30.7, h-index 118.
How long does peer review take at Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is indexed in SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics open access, and what is the APC?
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .