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1. Reviewer of the Year Award winners

2. End of year journal stats

3. Highlights/Final news

1. 

It is my utmost pleasure to announce the recipients of the JBP Reviewer of the Year Award.  They are:

Eva Derous, Ghent University

Linda Shanock, University of North Carolina Charlotte

Kristen Shockey,Baruch College, City University of New York

Erin Richard, Florida Institute of Technology

Bryan Edwards, Oklahoma State University

Aaron Schmidt, University of Minnesota

Their reviews were comprehensive, presented in a highly constructive and considerate tone, and very much captured the big picture issues

associated with the manuscript being evaluating.  Please join me in congratulating them on this achievement.  Their service to the journal and more importantly to our profession is truly special.

2.

In 2013 we received near 450 new submissions. This does not include proposals/papers handled outside the system given special features. This is a RECORD year.  We also had 134 revisions come in for 2013. Again, this was a record. So, overall, the journal was very busy.  

Initial screening decisions (e.g., desk rejects) were made, on average, in 2.6 days.  Big thanks to the assistant editors who made this possible in 2013 (Jane Shumski Thomas, Alex Lindsay, Erika Lopina, and Jisoo Ock).

Reviewer accepts review invitation, on average, in just 2 days. 

Reviewers, on average, completed their review in 35.9 days.  

Vast majority of reviews turned in early, on average, by 12 days.

For 2013 we had 51 accepted articles. Our acceptance rate was approximately 12%. 

Of the papers that go under review (so this ignores desk rejects), it looks like 64% are not accepted and 36% get R&Rs by the acting editor.  This seems like a good balance to me.  This was identical to last year.

The average total time to decision (this adds in associate editor or editor decision making time) for papers not accepted is 67 days and for R&Rs it is 69  days. 

Of first R&Rs received, 18% received major revision decisions, 60% received minor revision decisions, and 21% were not accepted.  So, R&Rs are meeting with good success.  This is a positive increase in R&R conversation.

3.

Some 2013 highlights

The Journal of Business and Psychology has been ranked A in the revised (2013) Australian Business Dean's Council (ABDC) Quality Journal List. 

Our new impact factor is 1.737.  We only had 5% self cites, which is really low. We are well above the mean and median for journals in Applied Psych and Business. For example, our ranking (based on impact factors) in Applied Psych journals last year was 37 out of 72. Now we are 20.  For context, in 2009 our impact factor was .44.

Journal was key player in the Editor Ethics initiative. http://editorethics.uncc.edu/ 

Special Issue: The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act: The Evolution of Research, Practice, and Legal Perspectives on Employment Discrimination was released. Big thanks to Eden King, Derek Avery and Paul Sackett for their excellent work. http://link.springer.com/journal/10869/28/4/page/1

Special features in the works or just about to be completed:

- Box Scores and Bottom Lines: Sports Data Can Inform Research and Practice in Organizations.   Papers are being welcomed at this time.  To learn more click HERE

- Inductive research  Special feature (closed, in production)

- Nothing, Null, Zilch: Special Feature on the Null (closed, being completed)

New Associate Editor named: Welcome Aaron Schmidt, University of Minnesota

We also now have a team of Guest Editors who write a small number of decision letters each year.  I am thrilled to announce the group

1.Neal  Schmitt, Michigan State University

2.Christian Vandenberghe, HEC Montreal 

3.Cornelius Koenig, Saarland University

4.Jim Smither, La Salle University

5.Debbie Major, Old Dominion University

6.Mike Horvath, Cleveland State University

We continue to publicize and do media releases on articles to promote impact.  The following paper, for example, was featured in Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=facebook-snooping-on-job

Stoughton, J. W., Thompson, L. F., Meade, A. W. (in press). Examining applicant reactions to the use of social networking websites in pre-employment screening. Journal of Business and Psychology.

Really strong journal Facebook presence. Please considering liking this page if you have not done so: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Journal-of-Business-and-Psychology/405452449502285.