Journal of Media Psychology


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 Nicholas David Bowman. The incoming editor-in-chief is Caleb T. Carr.

Past editors

YearsEditorInstitution
2021-2025Nick BowmanNewhouse School of Public Communications
2018-2020Christoph KlimmtHanover University of Music, Drama, and Media
2015-2017Nicole KrämerUniversity Duisburg-Essen
2009-2014Gary BenteUniversity of Cologne
2008-2009Margrit SchreierUniversity of Cologne

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.