Political Psychology: Submissions, Acceptances, Downloads, and Citations Alex Mintz Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya Eli Mograbi Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya Political Psychology has experienced a marked increase in the number of submissions, downloads, citations, and global exposure over the past few years. It is also a more influential journal than it was at the beginning of the decade. Specifically, the journal is now available in more than 4,200 libraries worldwide, compared with 2,200 five years ago; the number of downloads has recently increased to more than 620,000(!), compared with about 100,000 five years ago; the number of new submissions has increased drastically over the past five years to more than 300 per year; and the impact factor has risen to 1.771—the highest in the history of the journal. In 2014 alone, more than 40 articles published in the journal have been downloaded more than 500 times each. In this article, we analyze submissions to Political Psychology, acceptances, downloads, and citations by area of study and methodology. KEY WORDS: political psychology, downloads, citations, acceptances, methodologies Introduction The five-year term of the IDC editorial team led by the first author ended on January 31, 2015. 1 We would like to take this opportunity and present readers of Political Psychology with some data on submissions, acceptances, article downloads, and citations by (1) broad area of study and (2) methodology. Political Psychology has experienced a marked increase in the number of submissions, down- loads, citations, and global exposure over the past few years. It is also a more influential journal than it was at the beginning of the decade, as evident by the data presented in Table 1. 2 Specifically, the journal is now available in more than 4,200 libraries worldwide, compared with 2,200 five years ago; the number of downloads has increased to more than 620,000(!) in 2012, compared with about 1 Alex Mintz served as Editor-in-Chief of Political Psychology from February 1, 2010 to January 31, 2015. Eli Mograbi served as editorial assistant from July 2013 to March 2015. 2 The authors thank Michael Streeter and the Wiley team for supplying the data for this article. 267 0162-895X V C 2015 International Society of Political Psychology Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, and PO Box 378 Carlton South, 3053 Victoria, Australia Political Psychology, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2015 doi: 10.1111/pops.12277