The Journal of Media Psychology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering media psychology. It was established in 1989 as the Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie and obtained its current name in 2008. It is published by Hogrefe. The current editor-in-chief is Caleb T. Carr (Illinois State University).
Past editors
Years Editor Institution 2025-Present Caleb T. Carr Illinois State University 2021-2025 Nick Bowman Newhouse School of Public Communications 2018-2020 Christoph Klimmt Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media 2015-2017 Nicole Krämer University Duisburg-Essen 2009-2014 Gary Bente University of Cologne 2008-2009 Margrit Schreier University of Cologne 2001-2007 Peter Vorderer University of Mannheim The list of editors above is only applicable to the journal as named Journal of Media Psychology. However, in the inaugural issue, Margrit Schreier offered a narrative accounting of the history of JMP prior to rebranding as an English-language journal.
Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, PsycINFO, PsycLIT, and Scopus.
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Online Access