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Issue No 1 of 2022 includes 23 original research articles and our editorial report. Issue No 2 includes one theoretical article and 16 original research articles, as well as a special thematic section on Political Psychology of Southeast Asia (guest edited by Ali Mashuri, Idhamsyah Eka Putra, and Cristina Montiel) with five articles and an introduction by the guest editors. A breakdown of the country statistics for authors’ locations is provided in Table 1. As these numbers show, despite our mission and efforts to publish articles from authors across the globe, there is still significant overrepresentation of authors from English-speaking and European countries. Specifically, over one third of all first authors (36.96%) are from English-speaking countries (U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, and New Zealand); and 58.69% of the first authors are from European countries. Within Europe, representation is also skewed – the vast majority (81.48%) of first authors from Europe are from Western European countries, and only 14.81% of this group are from Southern European and a mere 3.7% from Eastern European countries. Thanks to the special thematic section this year, authors from (Southeast) Asian countries are represented with 10.87% of all first authors published in JSPP in 2022, but there is only one author from an African country (and no first authors), and authors from South American countries are not represented at all. Clearly, we still have a long way to go to fulfill our journal’s goals of representing a more global and inclusive version of social and political psychology. We strongly encourage authors from regions that are underrepresented in JSPP to submit their work to our journal, and we will continue to think of how we can improve on this crucial aspect!
Country | First Authors | All Authors |
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USA | 9 | 32 |
Germany | 6 | 20 |
Sweden | 4 | 12 |
Indonesia | 3 | 11 |
United Kingdom | 3 | 10 |
Finland | 3 | 7 |
The Netherlands | 2 | 10 |
Australia | 2 | 7 |
Philippines | 2 | 6 |
France | 2 | 4 |
Greece | 2 | 4 |
Canada | 2 | 3 |
Belgium | 1 | 6 |
Poland | 1 | 6 |
New Zealand | 1 | 3 |
Portugal | 1 | 3 |
Spain | 1 | 3 |
Austria | 1 | 1 |
Hungary | 0 | 1 |
Slovakia | 0 | 1 |
South Africa | 0 | 1 |
Because of the page limits we have for the journal due to limited resources for this open access journal without author fees, there is a longer queue of accepted articles that have not yet been 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:
Finally, 2022 marks the year of 10 years of publishing the Journal of Social and Political Psychology! Our first issue appeared in September 2013. The full archive of all issues published over the past decade can be found here:
In 2022, JSPP received 271 new submissions (compared to 290 in 2021, 235 in 2020, 186 in 2019, 148 in 2018, 101 in 2017, and 79 in 2016). 166 submissions (60.9%) were desk-rejected and an additional 59 (15.1%) were rejected after review. The average number of days to reject was 50. The average number of days to accept was 372.
To date, JSPP has published (not including our editorial reports) 357 peer-reviewed articles (46 of which were published in 2022). According to Google Scholar, these articles have been cited 8286 times (as of February 12, 2023) (see
The number of downloads of articles in JSPP has further increased, from 121,742 downloads in 2021 to 172,438 in 2022 (a 41.64% increase). The top ten most frequently downloaded articles (from the new website, as of February 20, 2023) are listed in Tables 2 and 3. Table 2 includes all articles that have been published so far in JSPP since its first issue. Table 3 shows only those articles published in 2022.
Article title and authors | Downloads | Publication date |
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The Role of the Media in the Construction of Public Belief and Social Change |
13723 | Dec 16, 2013 |
Empathy and the Liberal-Conservative Political Divide in the U.S. |
10174 | Feb 28, 2020 |
Decolonising Australian Psychology: Discourses, Strategies, and Practice |
9887 | Aug 21, 2015 |
Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters |
8982 | Mar 2, 2017 |
Recurrent Fury: Conspiratorial Discourse in the Blogosphere Triggered by Research on the Role of Conspiracist Ideation in Climate Denial |
8089 | Jul 8, 2015 |
Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being |
6268 | Aug 21, 2015 |
Mistrust and Misinformation: A Two-Component, Socio-Epistemic Model of Belief in Conspiracy Theories |
6175 | Oct 12, 2020 |
Do Conspiracy Beliefs Form a Belief System? Examining the Structure and Organization of Conspiracy Beliefs |
5063 | Jun 29, 2021 |
Who Coined the Concept of Ethnocentrism? A Brief Report |
5054 | Jan 31, 2014 |
Investigating Right Wing Authoritarianism With a Very Short Authoritarianism Scale |
4329 | Apr 25, 2018 |
Article title and authors | Downloads | Publication date |
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Political Bullshit Receptivity and its Correlates: A Cross-Country Validation of the Concept |
1553 | Aug 26, 2022 |
Could Your Candidate Shoot Someone on 5th Avenue and not Lose Votes? Identifying “Lines in the Sand” in Ingroup Candidate Transgressions |
853 | Jul 5, 2022 |
Psychological Perspectives on Participatory Culture: Core Motives for the Use of Political Internet Memes |
742 | Jun 27, 2022 |
Populist Attitudes and Conspiracy Beliefs: Exploring the Relation Between the Latent Structures of Populist Attitudes and Conspiracy Beliefs |
687 | Apr 26, 2022 |
Differentiating Between Direct and Indirect Hate Crime: Results From Poland |
626 | May 4, 2022 |
Vote-Selling as Unethical Behavior: Effects of Voter’s Inhibitory Self-Control, Decision Toward Vote-Buying Money, and Candidate’s Quality in Indonesia Election |
614 | Oct 12, 2022 |
Political Psychology of Southeast Asia |
567 | Oct 12, 2022 |
Islam and Politics: A Latent Class Analysis of Indonesian Muslims Based on Political Attitudes and Psychological Determinants |
548 | Oct 12, 2022 |
Tolerating the Intolerant: Does Realistic Threat Lead to Increased Tolerance of Right-Wing Extremists? |
544 | Mar 16, 2022 |
Finally, we are grateful for the reliable and helpful support that we have received from the following 183 colleagues, who provided peer reviews for JSPP in 2022:
Juneman Abraham
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar
Aya Adra
Mai Albzour
Aerielle Allen
Julia Alves Brasil
Victor Araújo
Arin Ayanian
Hanna Bäck
Joaquin Bahamondes
Alison Mary Baker
Parissa Jahromi Ballard
Matthew Barnfield
Peter Beattie
Noelle Behringer
Ella Ben Hagai
John Widdup Berry
Thora Bjornsdottir
Matthijs Bogaards
Mark J. Brandt
Felix Brauner
Kathryn Bruchmann
Luke Buhagiar
Diana Cardenas
Thiago Lopes Carneiro
Kevin Robert Carriere
Rebecca Y. M. Cheung
Sarah Choi
Becky Choma
Aleksandra Cisłak
Cory Clark
Edward John Roy Clarke
Brett Coleman
Elizabeth C. Connors
Thomas Costello
Charlie Rose Crimston
Gabriela Czarnek
Chantal D'Amore
Maneeza Dawood
Ben De Groeve
Jonas De keersmaecker
Paul DeBell
Mirko A. Demasi
Valentina Di Stasio
Kris Dunn
Pierce Ekstrom
Angelo Fasce
Gillian Finchilescu
Teresa Forte
Eckhard Frick
Michael Gaddis
Ana Gantman
Efraín García-Sánchez
David Giles
Jin Xun Goh
Lara Greaves
Dmitry Grigoryev
Serge Guimond
Jonathan Haidt
Nader Hakim
Timo Häkli
Charles Harb
Gerald Higgenbotham
Gilad Hirschberger
Kathryn Rachel Hoban
Peter Holtz
Bogdana Huma
Matthew Hunsinger
Deborah Husbands
Dilwar Hussain
Roland Imhoff
Eva Janssen
Tyler Jimenez
Gloria Jimenez-Moya
Yashpal Jogdand
Rotem Kahalon
Fiona Kazarovytska
Sam Keast
Sanya Kenaphoom
Anna Kende
Philippa Kerr
Ruth Kinna
Larissa Knöchelmann
Yasin Koc
Mathias Kohrs
Patrick Kotzur
Michael Kraus
Paul Danielle Labor
Fanny Lalot
Barbara Lášticová
Jeffrey Lees
Yphtah Lelkes
Giovanna Leone
Sarah Leveaux
Jaclyn Lisnek
Sibangilizwe Maphosa
Tadek Markiewicz
Kelly L. Markowski
Jari Matti Martikainen
Joel E. Martinez
Andrew McNeill
Maurits Meijers
Gosia Mikolajczak
Frank Mols
Cristina Montiel
Janice Moodley
Scott Morgan
Carla Mouro
Isabel Müller
Geoffrey Munro
Kyoko Murakami
Vhuwhavho Nekhavhambe
Fabian Neuner
Dennis Nigbur
Celestin Okoroji
Mukadder Okuyan
Adreanne Ormonde
Lukas Otto
Orgun Özcan
Stefano Pagliaro
Paolo Palma
Petra Pelletier
Miquel Pellicer
Adrien Petitpas
Aisha Phoenix
Davin Lanier Phoenix
Joseph Pierre
Suntosh Rathanam Pillay
Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman
Monica Pivetti
Tenelle Porter
Diwa Quinones
Rakshi Rath
Anna Reiman
Roderik Rekker
Carlos Alberto Rivera
Abby Robinson
Wanda Rodríguez
Miriam Rosa
Patricio Saavedra
Simona Sacchi
Elif Sandal Önal
Robert Schatz
Muhammad Abdan Shadiqi
Ardiana Shala
Donald Snyder
Celia Soares
Mónica Catarina Soares
Irina Soboleva
Nevin Solak
Marina Stambuk
Adrian Stanciu
Rachel R. Steele
Annika Svedholm-Häkkinen
Stylianos Syropoulos
Zsolt Péter Szabó
Sihintaro Terabe
Martin Terre Blanche
Katerina Tsantila
Bahar Tuncgenc
Johannes Ullrich
Özden Melis Ulug
Yasemin Ulusahin
Joshua Uyheng
Mete Sefa Uysal
Micaela Varela
Chiara Vargiù
Satu Venäläinen
Maykel Verkuyten
Sara Vestergren
Joseph Anthony Wagoner
Sven Waldzus
Iain Walker
Steven Webster
Ashley Weinberg
Susilo Wibisono
Cynthia Willis-Esqueda
Joshua Wright
Jeffery Yen
Whinda Yustisia
Ingrid Zakrisson
Holger Zapf
Jason Zenor
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.
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.