From Monday 21 July to Friday 16 August, Journal of Media Psychology will be taking our annual Summer Pause while we shift towards the upcoming academic year, as well as transition the journal's editorship from @bowmanspartan.bsky.social to @calebtcarrphd.bsky.social.

Peer review stats, from May-June 2025. Holding stead with just under 30 days for initial reviews. Desk rejects are still quite high (around 66%). Other questions? Reach us at our new address: [email protected]. We're moving our Editorship to @calebtcarrphd.bsky.social. WOO!

We're thrilled to announce that for 2024, @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social saw more than a 33% increase in citations to published manuscripts. Accordingly, our updated Impact Factor is 2.4 (5-year 2.3). Thanks to our readers, editors, and the many scholars who call JMP home. =)

Hello, folks! A quick note that we're out at #ICA25 in Denver next week, so we'll not be processing manuscripts during that time. If you're feeling a bit anxious, feel free to reach out to EiC @bowmanspartan.bsky.social - or enjoy one of our favorite songs this week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOS5...

Heading to #ICA25 in a few weeks? Check out one of the many panel discussions and research presentations from our team of JMP editors, all scheduled for the conference: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Very eager to join yet another @icahdq.bsky.social in Denver. =)

Amidst all of this, @jacobtfisher.online & I have a new paper in @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social! We discuss theoretical, methodological, & practical concerns with the media multitasking (MMT) index & lay out an agenda for better research on MMT 📄 doi.org/10.1027/1864... 📝 OA osf.io/preprints/ps...

We're about one month out #ICA25, and we're proud to share that our JMP editorial team will have several different presentations - over 20, in total! Check out this interactive schedule, and if you're attending ICA, pop by to see their work-in-progress. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Our latestly bimonthly Journal Accountability Report is up! We're slightly quicker these last two months, but some of that is due to a much higher desk-reject rate of nearly 73%. What's leading to desk rejects? A mix of lack-of-fit with a lot of causal analyses (i.e., SEM) or correlational data.

Folks often ask, "is it okay to ask the editors a question?" The answer is YES. Yes it is. If you're unsure, reach out at [email protected]. This even goes for editorial decisions. We get it: we reject 90% of manuscripts. If you'd like more information - or maybe you just want to vent - it's okay. =)

Soon? We'll be transitioning our editorship and thus, our editorial offices to a new Editor-in-Chief. It's been announced in passing elsewhere, but we're thrilled to note that as of Fall 2025, Dr. Caleb Carr (Illinois State U, USA) is our new editor. =)

The last category of reviewers we would like to recognize is “Editor’s Choice of the Year.”

Last but certainly not least...our final "Reviewer of the Year" is Douglas Parry (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)!

Continuing one with our “Reviewers of the Year,”... @anneo.bsky.social (University of Connecticut, USA) is next!

Moving right along with our next "Reviewer of the Year", Freya Sukalla (Leipzig University, Germany). She’s been one of our most reliable and robust peer commentators, who is especially keen to catching the “small-yet-critical” details of a theoretical argument or study design.

Next up, @tobiasdienlin.com (University of Zurich, Switzerland). #JMP wants to thank him for “pushing the boundaries of open science and advocate for greater transparency and openness.” We believe the authors are appreciative of making the peer review process more of an open dialogue.

Morning, folks! Check out our new open science badging format, which you'll start seeing on manuscripts in the coming weeks. It's a bit more "clean" of a design, placing the badges along with other disclosures in the manuscript. Sneak peek, below!

#JMP highlighted outstanding reviewers last week... we still have more to highlight! We will spotlight five "Reviewers of the Year" below, all were nominated by more than one of our editors.

#JMP would like to give a big congratulations to our “Outstanding Reviewers” of 2024. Our editors hand-selected these reviewers based on their quality and utility for our editors and our authors. For 2024, eighteen people were selected, below!

And our final competitively selected paper? “The Ecology Determinants of Morality: A Global Analysis of News Media Content” by Musa Malik, Kylie Falcione, Brittany Wheeler, & Rene Weber (all based at UC Santa-Barbara). #JMPxMMC

Hello, folks! Now that several major academic conference deadlines have passed, #JMP is receiving a large uptick in submissions. This means that our processing times might be a bit slower over the next few weeks.

Next up? “The Effectiveness of Moral Appeals within Pictorial Tobacco Control Messages: Comparing American and Chinese Smokers” by Thomas H. Zhang, Xiaohui Cao, Yidi Wang, Jiaying Liu, Shiwen Wu, & Sijia Yang .#JMPxMMC

Next up? “Rival as Villain: How Moral and Threat Language in American News Coverage Influences Public Opinion about China” #JMPxMMC

First up? A study by Joshua Baldwin, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Georgia Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE), in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia. The study? “Moral Intuition and ChatGPT.” #JMPxMMC

Soon, the 8th Moral Media conference is coming up at the University at Buffalo. It's sponsored by UB’s Office of International Education, Department of Communication, and the Media Psychology & Morality Lab: moralmedia.org/annual-meeting And ... @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social is gonna be there! #JMPxMMC

Professor Helena Bilandzic will be a keynote speaker for the Moral Media conference held in Buffalo next month (April 11-13). She is a professor of communication research at Universitat Augsburg University.

Our editorial team is based in the U.S. and will be closed for spring break from March 7, 2025 until March 14, 2025. Initial manuscript review will be delayed during this time. We will see you back in one week!

Last but certainly not least, #JMP is excited to introduce Dr. Caleb Carr, who is not only an Associate Editor, but will be #JMP's new Editor-in-Chief later this year! (@calebtcarrphd.bsky.social)

The next Associate Editor #JMP would like to introduce is Dr. Matthew Grizzard! Dr. Grizzard is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. He received his PhD in Communication with a specialization in cognitive science from Michigan State University.

The next Associate Editor #JMP would like to introduce is Dr. Neubaum (@germanneubaum.bsky.social). Dr. Neubaum is an Assistant Professor of Psychological Processes of Education in Social Media at the @unidue.bsky.social in Germany. He received his PhD from the same institution in 2016.

The next Associate Editor #JMP would like to introduce is Dr. Saraswathi Bellur! She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Connecticut. She received her PhD from Penn State University.

Our latest journal accountability report is out! A few highlights: * Desk reject rate is ~2/3 of initial submissions, but we're providing much more feedback on those (hence, the ~15-day turnaround) * We're making ~80 editorial decisions per month. * We need a bit over 2mos for peer review.

Earlier this year, #JMP introduced our newest Associate Editor, Marieke Fransen. For the next few weeks, we would like to introduce our other Associate Editors!

The more, the merrier! Further renowned media psychologists will support us as mentors during this workshop! #MediaPsych2025

Interested in reading a study that focuses on protective and positive factors that lead to healthy gaming practice instead of risk and negative factors for problematic gaming? Read #JMP's new advance article by He, Shan, Lu, & Tong here: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

Submissions to #mediapsych25 are open!

Professor Jessica T. Piotrowski will be a keynote speaker for the conference of the Division “Media Psychology” of the German Psychological Association in September, hosted by the University of Duisburg-Essen.

In addition to submissions, the conference of the Division “Media Psychology” of the German Psychological Association is offering a workshop for PhD students. All PhD students working on topics from media psychology and related areas are welcome to apply.

Congratulations to one of our amazing editors, @germanneubaum.bsky.social, for being on the organizing committee for #MediaPsych25!! We are so excited to help organize a special call for issues. Read more here: www.uni-due.de/media-psych-...

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓📱💻 🤖You are a PhD student in Media Psychology? Then, this PhD Workshop is waiting for you! If you are interested in receiving feedback on your writing, presentation style, career planning and much more from mentors and PhD peers - please apply for this preconference! www.uni-due.de/media-psych-...

Pretty excited about this one. For several years, @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social has partnered with @mepsy.bsky.social on various conference programs, from debate panels and open science competitions to special collections directly in the journal. We'd love to see your submissions, folks! See in you DE.

The @unidue.bsky.social will be hosting a conference of the Division “Media Psychology” of the German Psychological Association. It will take place on Sept 10-12, 2025 in Duisburg, Germany.

Are you an early career author? #JMP is collaborating with #MediaPsych25 this year to spotlight excellent early career scholarship.

Happy Sunday! Check out #JMP's latest advance article by Yao, Ellithorpe, Ewoldsen, & Holt, where they replicated a study on how shared human identity may promote interracial inclusion in the context of mass media. Click here to read about the results: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

📢📢📢 #MediaPsych2025 It's time to update your to do lists! Submission system is open: www.conftool.net/mediapsych20... (Deadline February 15) @unidue.bsky.social @mepsy.bsky.social @CAIS

Fantastic! We're thrilled to once again be part of #mediapsych25 and helping organize a special call for issues, along with a panel at the event in Duisburg-Essen. Details? Check out the link - and we'll post more, of course. =)

One of the reasons that Marieke joined #JMP is because our journal accepts registered reports as one of our many types of article submissions. Registered reports are submissions where authors ask us to review their study proposals before data collection (www.cos.io/initiatives/...). 1/x

#JMP would like to welcome our new Associate Editor, Marieke Fransen. She is currently a Professor of Communication and Media at the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University. Prof. Fransen studies resistance to change processes in communication and media contexts.

Dr. Frederic R. Hopp will be a keynote speaker for the Moral Media conference this April, hosted by the Department of Communication, @ubuffalo.bsky.social. He is an Assistant Professor for Big Data in Psychology at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). (1/2)

The submission deadline for the Moral Media conference is just a few weeks away! Top accepted global theoretical manuscripts will receive financial support for travel to Buffalo, NY!

Happy to share #JMP is back from the holiday break. Thank you in advance for your patience as we process the backlog of submissions made during the past two weeks. Please email [email protected] for any questions.