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Dear Colleagues

Below you will find the Journal of Business and Psychology (JBP)  2023 organizational research methods virtual issue part 2.  All the methods articles below are free access for a couple of months. Our journal annual report and award winning papers are  at the bottom of the email. Enjoy...

Optimizing Measurement Reliability in Within-Person Research: Guidelines for Research Design and R Shiny Web Application Tools

Liu-Qin Yang, Wei Wang, Po-Hsien Huang & Anthony Nguyen

Normalizing the Use of Single-Item Measures: Validation of the Single-Item Compendium for Organizational Psychology

Russell A. Matthews, Laura Pineault & Yeong-Hyun Hong

Mastering the Use of Control Variables: the Hierarchical Iterative Control (HIC) Approach

Paul E. Spector

Generations and Generational Differences: Debunking Myths in Organizational Science and Practice and Paving New Paths Forward

Cort W. Rudolph, Rachel S. Rauvola, David P. Costanza & Hannes Zacher

Study Preregistration: An Evaluation of a Method for Transparent Reporting

Allison A. Toth, George C. Banks, David Mellor, Ernest H. O'Boyle, Ashleigh Dickson, Daniel J. Davis, Alex DeHaven, Jaime Bochantin & Jared Borns

The Open Science Challenge: Adopt One Practice that Enacts Widely Shared Values

Christopher M. Castille, Liana M. Kreamer, Betsy H. Albritton, George C. Banks & Steven G. Rogelberg

Organizational science and cybersecurity: abundant opportunities for research at the interface

Reeshad S. Dalal, David J. Howard, Rebecca J. Bennett, Clay Posey, Stephen J. Zaccaro & Bradley J. Brummel

Annual report

Part 2: 2022 Annual Report

This is the Journal of Business and Psychology 2022 year-end report including award winners. 

Editor Commendation

   
Five years ago, JBP began a new initiative whereby the editors identified papers of particular note.  These papers received an "Editor Commendation".  Congrats to the authors of the following 2022 recipients of an Editor Commendation: 

Ruggs, E.N., Marshburn, C.K., Summerville, K.M. et al. The Struggle Is Real: Employee Reactions to Indirect Trauma from Anti-Black Policing. J Bus Psychol 38, 25–44 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09823-1

https://rdcu.be/c30Mt

Keiser, N.L., Arthur, , W. A Meta-Analysis of Task and Training Characteristics that Contribute to or Attenuate the Effectiveness of the After-Action Review (or Debrief). J Bus Psychol 37, 953–976 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-021-09784-x

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-021-09784-x

Dhanani, L.Y., LaPalme, M.L., Pham, C.T. et al. The Burden of Hate: How Nonwork Discrimination Experienced During the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Asian American Employees. J Bus Psychol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09848-6

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09848-6

Yang, LQ., Wang, W., Huang, PH. et al. Optimizing Measurement Reliability in Within-Person Research: Guidelines for Research Design and R Shiny Web Application Tools. J Bus Psychol 37, 1141–1156 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09803-5

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09803-5

Phan, V., Beck, J.W. Why Do People (Not) Take Breaks? An Investigation of Individuals' Reasons for Taking and for Not Taking Breaks at Work. J Bus Psychol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09866-4

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09866-4

Putka, D.J., Oswald, F.L., Landers, R.N. et al. Evaluating a Natural Language Processing Approach to Estimating KSA and Interest Job Analysis Ratings. J Bus Psychol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09824-0

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09824-0

Matthews, R.A., Pineault, L. & Hong, YH. Normalizing the Use of Single-Item Measures: Validation of the Single-Item Compendium for Organizational Psychology. J Bus Psychol 37, 639–673 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09813-3

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09813-3

Li, S., Young, H.R., Ghorbani, M. et al. Keeping Employees Safe During Health Crises: The Effects of Media Exposure, HR Practices, and Age. J Bus Psychol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09837-9

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09837-9

Batolas, D., Perkovic, S. & Mitkidis, P. Psychological and Hierarchical Closeness as Opposing Factors in Whistleblowing: A Meta-Analysis. J Bus Psychol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09849-5

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09849-5

Lee, P., Fyffe, S., Son, M. et al. A Paradigm Shift from "Human Writing" to "Machine Generation" in Personality Test Development: an Application of State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing. J Bus Psychol 38, 163–190 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09864-6

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09864-6

Alaybek, B., Dalal, R.S. & Dade, B. Individual Differences in Judgment and Decision-Making: Novel Predictors of Counterproductive Work Behavior. J Bus Psychol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09843-x

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09843-x

Nye, C.D., Ma, J. & Wee, S. Cognitive Ability and Job Performance: Meta-analytic Evidence for the Validity of Narrow Cognitive Abilities. J Bus Psychol 37, 1119–1139 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09796-1

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09796-1

Kim, K.Y., Shen, W., Evans, R. et al. Granting Leadership to Asian Americans: the Activation of Ideal Leader and Ideal Follower Traits on Observers' Leadership Perceptions. J Bus Psychol 37, 1157–1180 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09794-3

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-022-09794-3

In 2022 we received close to 1000 submissions!!! We also received 171 revisions (journal record).  So, overall, the journal was very busy.

2-year impact factor: 6.760.

-       91^st percentile Applied Psychology

-       95^th percentile Business, Management

-       94^th percentile Psychology (all)

Journal of Business and Psychology has received a 2-year impact factor of 6.604 and a 2021 CiteScore of 9. 

To provide some context, here are some sampling of impact factors for great journals in the Applied Psych category.

JAP 11.8

JOHP 7.7

JBP 6.6

OBHDP 5.6

PPsych 5.4

And for context for the CiteScore, we are at the 95^th percentile in Business, Management and Accounting. In case you're not familiar with CiteScore: https://www.scopus.com/sources and https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14880/supporthub/scopus/ It's similar to an IF but uses 4 years-worth of articles and not 2 (as the Impact Factor does). I see it as a better and more robust indicator, and it is all public domain.

And, probably the neatest news, we hit a record for downloads nearing 600K!!

It is my utmost pleasure to announce the recipients of the 2022 JBP Reviewers of the Year Award.  They are:
 

Justin DeSimone, Ph.D., University of Alabama

Jennifer Feitosa, Claremont McKenna College

Erich Dierdorff, Depaul University

Courtney Williams, university of toledo

Meghan A Thornton-Lugo, Ph.D., University of Akron

Nina Keith, Technical University of Darmstadt

Fabiola Heike Gerpott, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Sabrina L. Speights, Wheaton College  

Big congratulations to Linda Shanock, UNC Charlotte, for being the recipient of the 2022 JBP Stan Gully Award for Sustained Excellence in Reviewing. This is our highest honor award recognizing a JBP board member for 7 or more years of sustained excellence in reviewing.  This is an award named to honor a dear colleague that passed away, Stan Gully.  Stan, a former JBP award winner, epitomized this award with his fantastic reviews, which were delivered constructively and compassionately.

Initial screening
Decisions are made quite quickly.  Upon receiving a paper, if it is desk rejected, it happens in 5 days on average.  Desk reject rate is approximately 70%. 

 
Reviewer Actions
Reviewers accept invitations in just 2.2 days on average. Reviewers, on average, completed their review in 43 days.
 
Editor Decisions
Overall, for 2022. We had around an 7% acceptance rate.  This is a little deceiving though as we have a very high desk reject rate.   First round decisions make on average in 88 days from submission

 
It is also quite rare to go beyond 2 revisions going out to reviewers so the review process does not drag out;. This is definitely something very important to us. Only around 23 percent of R&Rs rejected! None after the first revision

Open Science/Better Science

So excited to share with you that our repository is now robust with materials rarely found with published articles.  We worked with the Center of Open Science to create a repository associated with every article we publish where authors can choose to put measures, code, procedures, and/or data. This initiative is voluntary, but author response has been fantastic.   

https://osf.io/collections/jbp/discover

The results-blind review initiative is moving forward.  We get at least one submission a month.  More info can be found here jbp.uncc.edu. We have published papers submitted for this initiative.  We don't asterisk or note papers published in the format. Everything we are seeing to date is quite positive about this approach. The published work answers important questions in rigorous ways – the actual findings do not come into play, only the competence in which they were carried out. 

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