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| Publication statistics
h2 Time to publication
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Inspired by #[a(href='https://mastodon.social/@fussballinguist/111288814708880725', target='_blank') Simon Meier-Vieracker],
I track how long the peer review and production process takes for each of my publications.
Journal articles are blue; conference proceedings orange; book chapters green; book reviews purple.
Light color indicates time waiting for reviews; dark color typesetting; diamonds date of publication.
#chart-publications
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bookchapter: {
review: '#90C987',
editing: '#4EB265',
published: '#4EB265'
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bookreview: {
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editing: '#882E72',
published: '#882E72'
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confproceedings: {
review: '#F6C141',
editing: '#F1932D',
published: '#F1932D'
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journalarticle: {
review: '#6195CF',
editing: '#1965B0',
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start: Date.parse(interval[0]),
end: Date.parse(interval[1]) || Date.now(),
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color: colors[type_]['editing'],
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start: Date.parse(published[way]),
milestone: true,
name: 'Published (' + way + ')',
color: colors[type_]['published'],
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entry('journalarticle', 'Orientalia (2018)', 'A case study of reciprocal middles in Biblical Hebrew: The niphal of לחם',
[['2017-11-8', '2017-11-28'], ['2017-12-21', '2018-1-4']], [['2018-1-9', '2018-1-24']], {print: '2018-12-1'})
entry('journalarticle', 'JSS (2020)', 'Prepositions and the grammaticalization of Ancient Hebrew bipartite reciprocal markers (Journal of Semitic Studies)',
[['2018-3-9', '2018-5-1'], ['2018-5-8', '2018-5-21']], [['2018-5-21', '2019-12-16']], {print: '2020-2-17'})
entry('journalarticle', 'JSOT (2020)', '“When dust was poured out”: Creation in Job 38.36–38 (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament)',
[['2018-8-11', '2018-9-26']], [['2018-9-27', '2019-7-31']], {online: '2019-12-27', print: '2020-3-12'})
entry('confproceedings', 'IFL (2019)', 'With John van Groningen and Rinus Plasmeijer: Lazy interworking of compiled and interpreted code for sandboxing and distributed systems (Implementation & Application of Functional Languages)',
[['2019-6-15', '2019-8-1'], ['2019-11-30', '2020-2-11']], [['2020-3-3', '2021-2-26']], {online: '2021-7-15'})
entry('bookreview', 'BiOr (2020)', 'Review of: Bar-Asher Siegal (2020), The NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity: Typology, history, syntax and semantics',
[], [['2020-4-22', '2020-7-3']], {print: '2020-12-24'})
entry('bookreview', 'LINGUIST (2021)', 'Review of: Winters (2020), Historical linguistics: A cognitive grammar introduction',
[], [['2020-10-17', '2021-4-23']], {online: '2021-04-23'})
entry('bookchapter', 'FS Van Wolde (2022)', 'Voice, discourse prominence, and aspect: The niphal and passive qal of yālad',
[['2021-1-4', '2021-2-19'], ['2021-3-11', '2022-9-15']], [['2022-9-15', '2022-9-30']], {print: '2022-11-7'})
entry('bookreview', 'BiOr (2021)', 'Review of: Bekins (2020), Inscriptions from the world of the Bible: A reader and introduction to Old Northwest Semitic',
[], [['2021-7-7', '2021-11-29']], {print: '2022-4-25'})
entry('journalarticle', 'JHS (2022)', 'Lip̄nē ‘in the face of’: A Locative preposition with a threatening connotation (Journal of Hebrew Scriptures)',
[['2021-7-8', '2021-9-16'], ['2021-10-4', '2021-12-23']], [['2021-12-23', '2022-9-12']], {online: '2022-9-12'})
entry('journalarticle', 'S&P (2024)', 'With Johan Rooryck: Formalizing spatial-causal polysemy of Agent prepositions (Semantics & Pragmatics)',
[['2022-7-4', '2022-9-12'], ['2023-3-6', '2023-6-5'], ['2023-7-30', '2023-10-20'], ['2023-11-10', '2023-12-20'], ['2024-1-8', '2024-1-14'], ['2024-1-15', '2024-3-3']], [['2024-3-4', '2024-5-27']], {online: '2024-3-4', print: '2024-6-4'})
entry('journalarticle', 'Linguistics (2023)', 'With Johan Rooryck: The interpretation of [+distal] in demonstratives and complementizers',
[['2022-10-24', '2023-2-23'], ['2023-3-17', '2023-6-9']], [['2023-6-13', '2023-7-18']], {online: '2023-8-5', print: '2023-9-26'})
entry('journalarticle', 'BJALL (2024)', 'With Martijn Beukenhorst: Semantic properties of prepositions: The distinction between causal min ‘from’ and bə ‘in’ (Brill\'s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages & Linguistics)',
[['2022-12-29', '2023-5-4'], ['2023-8-22', '2023-9-28'], ['2023-11-2', '2023-11-23'], ['2024-1-5', '2024-1-12']], [['2024-1-22', '2024-3-19']], {online: '2024-4-4', print: '2024-12-16'})
entry('journalarticle', 'In preparation', 'Complementation and Common Ground: Discursive effects in Biblical Hebrew',
[['2023-9-22', '2024-6-30'], ['2024-12-20']])
entry('journalarticle', 'HIPHIL Novum (2024)', 'Large Language Models and Biblical Hebrew: Limitations, pitfalls, opportunities',
[['2024-3-18', '2024-5-4'], ['2024-5-6', '2024-5-7']], [['2024-5-7', '2024-6-4']], {online: '2024-6-4'})
entry('journalarticle', 'LiTy (2025)', 'Iconic features in nominal reduplication',
[['2024-5-1', '2024-5-18'], ['2024-9-13', '2024-12-1'], ['2024-12-28', '2025-5-13'], ['2025-7-16', '2025-7-28']], [['2025-7-28', '2025-8-30'], ['2025-9-5', '2025-9-29'], ['2025-10-01']])
entry('bookreview', 'BiOr (forthc.)', 'Review of: Park (2023), Focus construction with kî ʾim in Biblical Hebrew',
[], [['2024-7-28', '2025-6-6']], {})
entry('bookreview', 'LINGUIST (2025)', 'Review of: Aikhenvald (2025), A guide to gender and classifiers',
[], [['2025-10-16', '2025-10-28']], {online: '2025-10-28'})
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h2 Time to review
p.
I also keep track of reviews I have performed for journals.
The chart below shows how many reviews I have performed/declined for different journals, and how long they took.
Negative times indicate declined review requests.
#chart-reviews
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