From the Editors

Editorial Report and Acknowledgement of Reviewers, 2021

J. Christopher Cohrs*1, Johanna Ray Vollhardt2
[1] Department of Psychology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany. [2] Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA.

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2022, Vol. 10(1), 1–6, https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.8531

Published (VoR): 2022-03-16.

*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.

What’s New in 2021?

The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) moved its online presence to a new platform, shared with other journals published by PsychOpen, and also changed its appearance. All new submissions are made through the new website, which offers a convenient workflow throughout the editorial process. We also have a new feature now that allows authors to share their manuscripts as soon as they are accepted for publication and before they are copyedited and published in an issue. Our list of forthcoming articles and available author-accepted manuscripts, as well as instructions for authors on how to make their manuscripts that were accepted for publication in JSPP available early access, can be found here: https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/aam

We were fortunate to welcome Geetha Reddy (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom) in 2021 as a new Associate Editor. Several of our Associate Editors also finished their terms as editors: Lucas Keefer (University of Southern Mississippi, USA), Sherianne Kramer (Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands) and Giovanna Leone (University of Roma, Italy) – we thank them all for their contributions to the journal over the last years! Our team now includes 28 editors located in 18 different countries on six continents (see https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/editors).

We also welcomed several new members to our Editorial Board, which now includes 91 members from 41 countries. You can see the complete list of Editorial Board members here: https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/ed-board

In line with our new page budget allocated by PsychOpen, Issue No 1 of 2021 includes 17 original research articles, two theoretical articles, and one commentary, as well as our editorial report, and Issue No 2 includes 18 original research articles and one theoretical article. Many thanks to all the authors!

Submission Numbers and Rejection Rate

In 2021, JSPP received 290 new submissions (compared to 235 in 2020, 186 in 2019, 148 in 2018, 101 in 2017, and 79 in 2016). 137 submissions (47.9%) were desk-rejected and an additional 39 (15.5%) were rejected after review. The average number of days to reject was 31. The average number of days to accept was 214.

Publications, Citations, and Download Statistics

To date, JSPP has published (not including our editorial articles) 311 peer-reviewed articles (39 of which were published in 2021). According to Google Scholar, these articles have been cited 6347 times (as of February 14, 2022) (see http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=knb2n1kAAAAJ).

The top ten most frequently downloaded articles (from the new website, as of February 14, 2022) are listed in Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 includes all articles that have been published so far in JSPP since its first issue. Table 2 shows only those articles published in 2021.

Table 1

Top Ten Most Frequently Downloaded Articles Published Between 2013 and 2021

Article title and authors Downloads Publication date
Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters
(Pettigrew) 		6663 Mar 2, 2017
Recurrent Fury: Conspiratorial Discourse in the Blogosphere Triggered by Research on the Role of Conspiracist Ideation in Climate Denial
(Lewandowsky et al.) 		3743 Jul 8, 2015
Decolonising Australian Psychology: Discourses, Strategies, and Practice
(Dudgeon & Walker) 		3717 Aug 21, 2015
Mistrust and Misinformation: A Two-Component, Socio-Epistemic Model of Belief in Conspiracy Theories
(Pierre) 		3469 Oct 12, 2020
Empathy and the Liberal-Conservative Political Divide in the U.S.
(Morris) 		3288 Feb 28, 2020
The Role of the Media in the Construction of Public Belief and Social Change
(Happer & Philo) 		3090 Dec 16, 2013
Investigating Right Wing Authoritarianism With a Very Short Authoritarianism Scale
(Bizumic & Duckitt) 		2746 Apr 25, 2018
Do Conspiracy Beliefs Form a Belief System? A Brief Report
(Enders et al.) 		2629 Jun 29, 2021
Who Coined the Concept of Ethnocentrism? A Brief Report
(Bizumic) 		2258 Jan 31, 2014
Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being
(Bulhan) 		2069 Aug 21, 2015
Table 2

Top Ten Most Frequently Downloaded Articles Published in 2021

Article title and authors Downloads Publication date
Do Conspiracy Beliefs Form a Belief System? A Brief Report
(Enders et al.) 		2629 Jun 29, 2021
The Psychological and Socio-Political Consequences of Infectious Diseases: Authoritarianism, Governance, and Nonzoonotic (Human-to-Human) Infection Transmission
(Zmigrod et al.) 		1230 Sep 9, 2021
All Immigrants Are Not Alike: Intersectionality Matters in Views of Immigrant Groups
(Savaş et al.) 		827 Feb 19, 2021
Beyond General Political Attitudes: Conspiracy Mentality as a Global Belief System Predicts Endorsement of International and Local Conspiracy Theories
(Đorđević et al.) 		800 Feb 26, 2021
Sociopolitical Intellectual Humility as a Predictor of Political Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions
(Krumrei-Mancuso & Newman) 		732 Feb 19, 2021
Social Representations and Ideology: Theories of Common Sense About COVID-19 Among Middle-Class Brazilians and Their Ideological Implications
(Silva et al.) 		705 Feb 19, 2021
How (Many) Descriptive Claims About Political Polarization Exacerbate Polarization
(Peters) 		648 Feb 19, 2021
Accounting for a Riot: Religious Identity, Denying One's Prejudice, and the Tool of Blasphemy
(Putra et al.) 		544 Feb 19, 2021
Political Motivation: A Referent Evaluation Mathematical Model
(Rigoli) 		494 Feb 19, 2021

Acknowledgment of Reviewers

Finally, we are grateful for the reliable and helpful support that we have received from the following 236 colleagues, who provided peer reviews for JSPP in 2021:

  1. Dariga Abilova

  2. Levi Adelman

  3. Mai Albzour

  4. Mark Alfano

  5. Nyla Ali Khan

  6. Daniela Alonso

  7. Hélder Vinagreiro Alves

  8. Julia Alves Brasil

  9. Ian Anson

  10. Vivienne Badaan

  11. Aphrodite Baka

  12. Femke Elisabeth Bakker

  13. Joan Barceló

  14. Peter Beattie

  15. Ella Ben Hagai

  16. Robin Bergh

  17. Boris Bizumic

  18. R. Thora Bjornsdottir

  19. Leda Blackwood

  20. Magdalena Bobowik

  21. Fouad Bou Zeineddine

  22. Luke Buhagiar

  23. Omar Khalifa Burhan

  24. Shani Burke

  25. Jovan Byford

  26. Rosa Cabecinhas

  27. Sabine Caillaud

  28. Mendiola Calleja

  29. Ryan Camacho

  30. Maggie Campbell Obaid

  31. Nico Canoy

  32. Diana Cardenas

  33. Sarah Carol

  34. Kevin Robert Carriere

  35. James Casey

  36. Rebecca Y. M. Cheung

  37. Becky Choma

  38. Aurore Lynn Chow

  39. Xenia Chryssochoou

  40. Edward John Roy Clarke

  41. Elizabeth C. Connors

  42. Canan Coşkan

  43. Thomas Costello

  44. Gabriela Czarnek

  45. Marija Dangubic

  46. Shai Davidai

  47. Jonas De keersmaecker

  48. Marta Degani

  49. Sylvain Delouvée

  50. Mirko A. Demasi

  51. Ruth Ditlmann

  52. Marcos Dono

  53. Karen Douglas

  54. John Duckitt

  55. Asbjørn Dyrendal

  56. Katharina Eckstein

  57. Pierce Ekstrom

  58. Guy Elcheroth

  59. Kai Epstude

  60. Cengiz Erisen

  61. Silke Eschert

  62. Regina Estuar

  63. Joanna Everitt

  64. Christina Farhart

  65. José-Miguel Fernandez-Dols

  66. Michelle Fine

  67. Emily Fisher

  68. Polly Fong

  69. Sam Freel

  70. S. Michael Gaddis

  71. Ana Gantman

  72. Efraín García-Sánchez

  73. Ben Gaskins

  74. David Giles

  75. Shahrzad Goudarzi

  76. Dmitry Grigoryev

  77. Thomas Grünhage

  78. Raquel Souza Lobo Guzzo

  79. Eliana Hadjiandreou

  80. Rizka Halida

  81. Philip L. Hammack

  82. Jeyda Hammad

  83. Niki Harré

  84. Siwar Hasan-Aslih

  85. Erin P. Hennes

  86. Timo Hennig

  87. Darrin Hodgetts

  88. Peter Holtz

  89. Joevarian Hudijana

  90. Julie Hulme

  91. Mark Hurlstone

  92. Roland Imhoff

  93. Margareta Jelić

  94. Hu Young Jeong

  95. Tyler Jimenez

  96. Yashpal Jogdand

  97. Daniel Jolley

  98. Sandra Jovchelovitch

  99. Kirsti Jylhä

  100. Frank Kachanoff

  101. Clémentine Kanazayire

  102. Johannes Keller

  103. Blerina Kellezi

  104. Jared B. Kenworthy

  105. Philippa Kerr

  106. Shose Kessi

  107. Sammyh Khan

  108. Christoph Klebl

  109. Jonah Koetke

  110. Małgorzata Kossowska

  111. Gordon Kraft-Todd

  112. Inna Ksenofontov

  113. Kenichi Kubota

  114. Olivia Kuljian

  115. Francesco La Barbera

  116. Alan J. Lambert

  117. Melanie Langer

  118. Barbara Lášticová

  119. Laurent Licata

  120. Rachel Liebert

  121. Luisa Liekefett

  122. Carmen Sarah Lienen

  123. Evelin Lindner

  124. Miguel López-Sáez

  125. Jacqui Marie Lovell

  126. Johanna Lukate

  127. Paul Maher

  128. Sramana Majumdar

  129. Carla Malafaia

  130. James Martherus

  131. Joel E. Martinez

  132. Sabrina J. Mayer

  133. Davide Mazzoni

  134. Khonzi Mbatha

  135. Andrew McNeill

  136. Rusten Menard

  137. Patrizia Milesi

  138. Jasna Milosevic

  139. Cristina Montiel

  140. G. Scott Morgan

  141. Eunike Mutiara

  142. Türkay Salim Nefes

  143. Katelin Helene Siemens Neufeld

  144. Brian Newman

  145. Dennis Nigbur

  146. Artur Nilsson

  147. Giannis Ntotsikas

  148. Danielle Ochoa

  149. Emma O'Dwyer

  150. Mukadder Okuyan

  151. J. Eric Oliver

  152. Nima Orazani

  153. Stefano Pagliaro

  154. Desmond Painter

  155. Myrto Pantazi

  156. Samuel Parker

  157. Bianca Parry

  158. Michael Pasek

  159. Inga Lisa Pauls

  160. Chiara Pecini

  161. Samuel Pehrson

  162. Miquel Pellicer

  163. Cícero Roberto Pereira

  164. Adrien Petitpas

  165. Jared Piazza

  166. Joseph Pierre

  167. Suntosh Rathanam Pillay

  168. Monica Pivetti

  169. Elizabeth Poerwandari

  170. Annie Pohlman

  171. Roni Porat

  172. Seamus Anthony Power

  173. Jan-Willem Prooijen

  174. Lotte Pummerer

  175. Diwa Quinones

  176. Christopher Raymond

  177. Leigh Raymond

  178. Carolina Rocha

  179. Arne Roets

  180. Miriam Rosa

  181. Tobias Rothmund

  182. Julian Rucker

  183. Patricio Saavedra

  184. Simona Sacchi

  185. Thia Sagherian-Dickey

  186. Elif Sandal Önal

  187. Ella Marie Sandbakken

  188. Ozge Savas

  189. Colin Scott

  190. Gilda Sensales

  191. Muhammad Abdan Shadiqi

  192. Anouk Smeekes

  193. Liudmyla Smokova

  194. Irina Soboleva

  195. Nevin Solak

  196. Dan Stalder

  197. Adrian Stanciu

  198. Katherine Beata Starzyk

  199. Rachel R. Steele

  200. Clifford Stevenson

  201. Ana Stojanov

  202. Avelie Stuart

  203. Annika Svedholm-Häkkinen

  204. Emmanouil Takas

  205. Alessio Tesi

  206. Haidar Thontowi

  207. Bojan Todosijević

  208. Timo Toikko

  209. Johannes Ullrich

  210. Joshua Uyheng

  211. António Valentim

  212. Joaquim Pires Valentim

  213. Chiara Valli

  214. Chiara Vargiù

  215. Vadym Vasiutynskyi

  216. Satu Venäläinen

  217. Christian von Sikorski

  218. Wolfgang Wagner

  219. Pascal Wagner-Egger

  220. Israel Waismel-Manor

  221. Juliet Wakefield

  222. Matthew Ward

  223. Sue Watt

  224. Susilo Wibisono

  225. Shaun Wiley

  226. Cynthia Willis-Esqueda

  227. Marta Witkowska

  228. Adrian Wojcik

  229. Jake Womick

  230. Joshua D. Wright

  231. Maria Xenitidou

  232. Jeremy Yamashiro

  233. Hanna Zagefka

  234. Ingrid Zakrisson

  235. Karyofyllis (Lakis) Zervoulis

  236. Cristina Zogmaister

Funding

The authors have no funding to report.

Acknowledgments

As usual, our sincere thanks go to the PsychOpen team – most notably Judith Tinnes and Armin Günther – for their consistent support of the journal throughout the year. We also thank our Editorial Assistant, Michaela Bölinger, for administrative support.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.