Editorial Report and Acknowledgement of Reviewers, 2019

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2020, Vol. 8(1), 1–7, https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v8i1.1408 Published (VoR): 2020-02-28. *Corresponding author at: Philipps University Marburg, Department of Psychology, Gutenbergstr. 18, 35032 Marburg, Germany. Phone: +49 6421 2826632. E-mail: christopher.cohrs@uni-marburg.de This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Submission Numbers and Decisions
Not including the Special Thematic Sections, 186 (compared to 148 in 2018Sections, 186 (compared to 148 in , 101 in 2017Sections, 186 (compared to 148 in , and 79 in 2016) ) new manuscripts were submitted to JSPP in 2019.The first decisions and editorial status of these submissions are presented in Table 1.For these submissions (without those that were desk-rejected, which took place on average within 16.5 days [range: 0 to 98]), the average duration from submission to the first decision was slightly below four months (M = 117.6,SD = 58.7;ranging from 44 to 350 days).Further improving the turnaround time for editorial decisions will be a high priority for us in the coming year.Includes 6 manuscripts that were "desk-returned" to the authors with an invitation to resubmit after revisions.b Includes 29 manuscripts with a "Resubmit for Review" decision and 16 with a "Revisions Required" decision; 12 of these manuscripts have now been published or accepted for publication.

Publications, Citations, and Download Statistics
To date, JSPP has published (not including our editorial articles) 232 peer-reviewed articles (47 of which were published in 2019).According to Google Scholar, these articles have been cited 2811 times (as of 11 February, 2020) (see http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=knb2n1kAAAAJ).Table 2 summarizes in which countries the authors of these 47 articles published in 2019 are based.Authors based within the Anglo-American world (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) dominate with 38.7% of all (co-)authors, followed by authors based in other Western countries.In 2019, unfortunately, there was no publication co-authored by scholars based in Africa or Latin America.We hope to see this change in the new volume, and further increasing the regional diversity among our authors remains a high priority for the journal.
The number of articles downloaded from JSPP's website over the year is presented in Figure 1, by month.For comparison, the average monthly downloads for 2014 to 2018 are included in the columns on the left.The download numbers have further increased in the first half of the year, with a spike in May, but then decreased again toward the end of the year.The top ten most frequently downloaded articles (as of 11 February 2020) are listed in Tables 3 and 4.  Table 3 includes the top ten among all articles that have been published so far in JSPP since its first issue; these are the same as last year, with just slight changes in ranks.Table 4 shows the top ten articles published in 2019.

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Figure 1.Number of article downloads per month in 2019.
the Media in the Construction of Public Belief and Social Change (Happer & Philo) in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being (Bulhan) Dec 16, 2013 61747 Dramatic Social Change: A Social Psychological Perspective (de la Sablonnière et al.) Dec 16, 2013 43871 A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems (Homer-Dixon et al.Conspiratorial Discourse in the Blogosphere Triggered by Research on the Role of Conspiracist Ideation in Climate Denial (Lewandowsky et al.) Mar 3, 2018 24522 From I to We: Group Formation and Linguistic Adaption in an Online Xenophobic Forum (Bäck et al.) Dec 16, 2013 19918 Insights from Societal Psychology: The Contextual Politics of Change (Howarth et al.)

Table 1
Number of Submissions and First Decisions

Table 2
Location of the Authors Who Published in JSPP in 2019

Table 3
Top Ten Most Frequently Downloaded Articles Published Between 2013 and 2019

Table 4
Top Ten Most Frequently Downloaded Articles Published in 2019 Do Liberals and Conservatives Harbor Equivalent Negative Emotional Biases Towards Ideologically Congruent vs. Incongruent Politicians at the Level of Individual Emotions?(Steiger et al.) Mar 28, 2019 1707 Moral Polarization and Out-Party Hostility in the US Political Context (Tappin & McKay) May 15, 2019 1531 The Individual and the Nation: A Qualitative Analysis of US Liberal and Conservative Identity Content (Hanson et al.) Apr 12, 2019 1421 Social Identity and the Use of Ideological Categorization in Political Evaluation (Haas et al.)