A couple more tips for reviewers.
If you can't do the review, let the journal editors know as soon as possible (and recommend someone else if appropriate).
If you agree to the review, then meet the deadline, or let the editors know if you'll be late.
Some more tips for reviewers.
Be specific, if the author hasn't cited the literature, provide some examples of papers they should be citing.
Bear in mind the journal's wordcount limits when recommending changes. If you want them to do more, advise on what should be reduced.
Some tips for reviewers...
Don't just focus on the bad. What did you like about the paper?
Be constructive - what can the author do to improve the paper?
Be respectful, even if you didn't like the paper.
If the paper is trying to be a square don't reject it because it isn't a circle.
Applications are now open for our new summer school in 'Corpus Linguistics for Language Testing and Assessment' offered as part of our free annual Lancaster Summer Schools series.
16-20 June 2025, Lancaster University
Find out more: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
Our top most downloaded article is "‘What is this corpus about?’: using topic modelling to explore a specialised corpus" by Akira Murakami, Paul Thompson, Susan Hunston and
Dominik Vajn. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Our 2nd most downloaded article is Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared through social media by Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Corpora's 3rd most downloaded article is Sketching women: a corpus-based approach to representations of women's agency in political Internet corpora in Arabic and English by Kamran Karimullah. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Corpora's 4th most downloaded article is CLiC Dickens: novel uses of concordances for the integration of corpus stylistics and cognitive poetics by @michamahlberg.bsky.social (Open Access). www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Our 5th most downloaded article is Inter-religious relations in Yorubaland, Nigeria: corpus methods and anthropological survey data by M. Insa Nolte, Clyde Ancarno and
Rebecca Jones (Open Access). www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Our 6th most downloaded article is English learner corpora and research in Korea by Heokseung Kwon www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Corpora's 7th most downloaded article is "Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: a corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing" by Henrik Kaatari, Ying Wang and @tovelarsson.bsky.social (open access) www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Corpora's 8th most downloaded article is Exploring the use of make + noun collocations by Japanese EFL learners through a bilingual essay corpus by Atsushi Mizumoto and Ryo Sawaguchi. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
We're posting our 10 most downloaded papers to date. At number 10 is Jiajin Xu and Zhaoxia Liu - The ordering of relative clauses and determiner phrases in Chinese interlanguage: a multifactorial study. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
The 9th most downloaded Corpora article is "On the status of statistical reporting versus linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective" by @tovelarsson.bsky.social, @jesse-egbert.bsky.social and Doug Biber. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Hello Bluesky. Corpora journal is about to enter its 20th year of publication. Thanks to our editorial board, our subscribers, authors and reviewers over the last two decades, and to @edinburghup.bsky.social who have supported us throughout. We couldn't have made it this far without you!
