{"id":1612,"date":"2021-02-18T17:14:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/langsci-press\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T09:53:58","slug":"achievements-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/langsci-press\/2021\/02\/18\/achievements-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievements 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We started our annual retrospectives in 2015<\/a> (2016<\/a>, 2017,\u00a0<\/a>2018<\/a>,\u00a02019<\/a>). This is the sixth installment, for 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2020, we published 30 books, and the second edition of The verb in Nyakyusa<\/a> as a bonus book.
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101 works were proposed to Language Science Press in 2020, for a total of 604. In 2019, 78 works had been proposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evolution of expressions of interest over time. The blue line shows a linear fit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The following figure gives a breakdown of the distribution of these works and their states of completion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Number of books in LangSci series and their state of completion. Green indicates accepted\/published, red indicates (desk) rejection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The most active series are Studies in Diversity Linguistics<\/a> (69), Textbooks in Language Sciences<\/a> (35), EOTMS<\/a> (25), and Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing<\/a> (24) . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are currently 27 series (+3). Last year, we accepted three more series: Open German Linguistics<\/a>, Open Romance Linguistics<\/a>, and Topics in Phonological Diversity<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The median time from submission to decision is now  97 days (-1). The median time from submission to publication was 257 days (-14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The acceptance rate (counting desk rejections) is 53.75% (+1.51) over all series. Only considering submissions where the proposal had been previously approved, the acceptance rate is 88.71% (+1.75).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, LangSci pdfs were downloaded 469,848 times (+106,865 compared to 362,983 in 2018), for a grand total of 1,149,905. This excludes downloads by search engine robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The most popular work is A aquisi\u00e7\u00e3o da l\u00edngua materna e n\u00e3o materna<\/a> with 61,262 downloads, followed by Einf\u00fchrung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen<\/a> (all three editions) with 60,659 downloads, and Grammatical theory<\/a> (all four editions): 49,497 downloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n