Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

The end of the summer also brings our third issue of this year. As our journal is growing, our issues are as well, and we are happy to present to you 11 new articles. All are high-quality articles with a various range of topics. To name a few, you can read about a longitudinal study about MMORPG players, sexting during the COVID-19 pandemic, or exercise in virtual reality.

We wish you a pleasant reading and an enjoyable start of the upcoming semester.

The editorial team of Cyberpsychology

There is another exciting news for our journal. We gained a new impact factor of 2.905 and we are currently in Q2 in Communication and multidisciplinary Psychology categories.

Our SCImago Journal Rank is currently 0.85 and we rank Q1 in Communication category and Q2 in Psychology and Social sciences miscellaneous categories.

We are very happy to see that our journal is improving and we hope that with the increased quality of articles we publish, this trend will continue.

Thank you to all our collaborators and readers.

We are very excited to share news about our two new associate editors. We want to offer a warm welcome to Fabio Sticca from Marie Meierhofer Institut für das Kind in Switzerland and Jan Šerek from Masaryk university in the Czech Republic. Fabio is working with us since January; his dominant research focus is on digital technologies and early childhood, and he did also substantial research on bullying and cyberbullying. Jan’s focus is on civic and political socialization of adolescents and political psychology in general.

Both are highly skilled researchers and we are truly happy that they agreed to join us, guide authors through the publication process, and help to improve our journal. We are looking forward to our cooperation and they are looking forward to your new submissions.

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

The first issue of 2021 is now published. We are happy to present you eight quality articles which explore a wide range of topics – social media and romantic relationships or professional networking, selective exposure in online news feeds or product evaluation, virtual reality and trauma or high contamination fear, and adolescent cyberbullying and problematic technology use.

We want to thank all the authors, reviewers, and editors for their hard work on the issue.

We wish you a pleasant reading and a great start of the new semester.

The editorial team of Cyberpsychology

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

We are excited to present you the last issue of 2020. We are happy to finish this year strong, with seven high-quality articles with a wide range of topics – dealing with video games, problematic smartphone use, selfie-posting, adolescent alcohol use, online video enjoyment, and religious counselling.

We thank all the authors, reviewers, and editors for their hard work on the issue. 

We wish you a pleasant reading and a great rest of the year!

The editorial team of Cyberpsychology

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

We are happy to present you the summer issue of Cyberpsychology. The issue contains seven articles with a wide range of topics and designs, including experiments, a meta-analysis, and a qualitative study – to name a few.

We wish you a pleasant reading and a relaxing rest of the summer!

The editorial team of Cyberpsychology

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

We hope you are well despite the current situation. We would like to present to you the second issue of 2020. This time the issue contains seven high-quality and interesting articles with a variety of topics. They are all available here.

We want to thank all the authors, reviewers, and editors for their hard work on the issue.

We wish you a pleasant reading.

The editorial team of Cyberpsychology

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

We are excited to present you the first issue in 2020 with 6 interesting articles. The articles cover a wide range of topics, and they are all available here.

We thank all the authors, reviewers, and editors for their hard work on the issue.

We wish you a pleasant reading and a fruitful start of the academic year.

The editorial team of Cyberpsychology

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

the last issue of 2019 is now published. We are happy to finish this year strong, with six high-quality articles.
We also updated our site - at the very end of each article, you can now find a list of references that cite the respective article provided by Crossref's Cited-by service as well as PlumX Metrics that shows the article's impact in a range of other services (EBSCO, Mendeley, social media, etc.).

We wish you a pleasant reading.

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

We are happy to present a summer issue of Cyberpsychology. It includes seven articles with a wide range of topics - from the exploration of the effect of an online simulation game on attitudes about poverty, through adolescents' perceptions of digital's media potential to elicit conflict in romantic relationships, to passive social networking site use effect on well-being - to name a few.

We wish you a pleasant reading and a relaxing summer!

the editorial team of Cyberpsychology

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

We are excited to present you a new special issue about digital advertising and consumer empowerment. We would like to thank the guest editors Liselot Hudders (Ghent University), Eva A. van Reijmersdal (University of Amsterdam), and Karolien Poels (University of Amsterdam) for their hard work on the issue. We also thank the authors and reviewers of the articles. Their joint efforts led to an interesting collection of four articles that each bring new insight into the timely issue of digital advertising.

We hope you will find the articles as interesting as we do and we wish you a pleasant reading.

See the guest editor's editorial note on the digital advertising and consumer empowerment here. The whole issue can be found here.

The editorial team of Cyberpsychology

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

The first issue of 2019 was just published. It contains four articles, all surrounding social networking sites. Besides the articles, we also summarized the previous year in our journal's life. You can learn about the visitors of our webpage, the decisions times for submitted manuscripts,  and much more current information about our journal in the Editorial.

We wish you a pleasant reading!

The editorial team of Cyberpsychology

We are happy to welcome new associate editor in Cyberpsychology's team, Alexander Schouten from Tilburg University. With him aboard, the journal now has five editors to take care of submitted articles. The new year brought another change - we have set up the new submission system to make the submission and review process smoother.

We are looking forward to this year's submissions!

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

We are excited to present you the last issue of 2018 - a special issue devoted to a timely topic of bystanders in online aggression. We would like to thank the guest editors - Hana Machackova (Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia), Jan Pfetsch (Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany), and Georges Steffgen (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), the authors and the reviewers for their excellent work on the issue. The joint effort of all involved scholars led to a highly interesting issue with six articles which bring new insights and expand our knowledge in this research area.

We wish you a pleasant reading and fruitful year 2019.

the editorial team of Cyberpsychology

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

the second regular issue of 2018 was just published. With the increase in submissions that the journal received this year, we are happy to announce that we are planning to publish three regular issues in 2019. More high-quality articles are therefore on their way. We are also thrilled to announce that Alexander Schouten (Tilburg University) will join the journal's team in January and will become our fourth associate editor.
The year is, however, not over yet and you may also look forward to the publication of the special issue on bystanders of online aggression at the end of December.

Enjoy the reading of the new issue,
the editorial team of Cyberpsychology

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

it is our great pleasure to present the special issue on Health and Technology, guest edited by Michal Molcho (NUI Galway), Christine Pellegrini (University of South Carolina), and Jana Holubcikova (PJ Safarik University). We would like to thank the editors, reviewers, and authors for their cooperation and we hope the readers will find the articles as interesting as we do.

The editorial team of Cyberpsychology

We keep an eye on our readers' interests and regularly monitor the most viewed pages in our journal. If you are interested, here are top ten viewed articles from January to August 2018.

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

The first issue of this 2018 volume is now published. The collection of articles includes six articles of various topics and designs, including three experimental studies. All articles are available here.  

Next, let us share good news regarding the journal. You may have already noticed that a month ago, Web of Science released new journal citations records based on 2017 data, that for the first time also included our journal. We received an impact factor of 1.400, getting category rank of 60 out of 135 journals in "multidisciplinary psychology". Scopus released their report even before Web of Science. In this database, Cyberpsychology is included in three categories: Psychology miscellaneous (category rank 76/241), Communication (54/427), and Social Sciences miscellaneous (82/497). See more details in our journal profile here.

We are very proud to see these numbers and thankful to all who contributed to this achievement: authors, reviewers, and the readers, as well as the editorial team behind the journal and our publisher.

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

it is our pleasure to announce a new call for papers. The special issue "Digital Advertising and Consumer Empowerment" will be prepared by Liselot Hudders (Ghent University), Karolien Poels (University of Antwerp) and Eva van Reijmersdal (University of Amsterdam). Guest editors accept abstract submissions till July 1, 2018. The issue will be published in March 2019.

Click here to find more information about the special issue.

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

We are happy to announce a new call for papers. The special issue on Bystanders of Online Aggression will be published in October 2018 and accepts abstracts for consideration till February 18. The guest editors of the issue are Hana Machackova (Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia), Jan Pfetsch (Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany), and Georges Steffgen (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg). See the Call for Papers here.

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in Internet-related research,

We are honored to present the fourth issue of the 11th volume of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace. The issue contains five article with various methods and designs. In the editorial, we summarize the year 2017- that has been a very successful for the journal. We are growing in terms of readership, submissions, citations, and also international recognition.

We would like to thank you for being with us in 2017 and wish you a fruitful year 2018!

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in internet-related research,

We are very proud to present the special issue “Young children’s use of digital media and parental mediation“ guest-edited by Bieke Zaman and Charles Mifsud.

The issue contains six articles surrounding children’s use of the internet, mainly from the perspective of the parents. We would like to thank the guest editors as well as the authors and reviewers for their hard work. We believe their combined efforts resulted in an interesting collection of article full of new insights.

We are announcing the new call for a special issue: Health and Technology. The special issue invites papers that extend our understanding of the role of technology in the health and behaviour change of children, adolescents and adults. It will be edited by Michal Molcho (NUI Galway), Christine Pellegrini (University of South Carolina), and Jana Holubcikova (PJ Safarik University) and published in April 2018. For more information, deadlines and contacts see the full Call here.

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in internet-related research,

We are happy to present the second issue of this year. The issue includes five high quality articles from authors from four continents. We would also like to share journal-related exciting news: with newly published SJR scores Cyberpsychology made it to Q2 in Scopus. Our number of citations is constantly raising and we are very proud to see this trend. This, of course, would not be happening without the effort of authors, reviewers, readers, and editorial board – to whom we owe our gratitude and thanks.

See the whole issue here.

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in internet-related research,

we are proud to present the new special issue guest-edited by Emma Sorbring and Martin Molin from Centre for Child and Youth Studies, University West, Sweden. The issue contains eleven articles organized in three main themes: (1) Accessibility – risks and opportunities, (2) Vulnerability and victimization and (3) Identity and user perspectives. We would like to thank guest editors as well as authors and reviewers for their hard workon the issue and wish you pleasant summer!

Lenka Dedkova, David Smahel & Kristian Daneback

See the whole issue here.

Dear researchers, colleagues, and readers interested in internet-related research,

We are delighted to present the fourth and final issue of 2016, which comprises of seven articles that cover a variety of topics, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches. Besides an article from the U.S., the research presented in this issue is primarily conducted by researchers in Europe. What we especially like to see is the international collaborations between researchers across nations – one of the studies, for example, brings together researchers from Norway, Germany, and the Netherlands. As internet researchers, we sometimes find ourselves alone in our departments, either because of being sort of aliens in relation to our academic discipline or because we run out of funding and have to dissolve our groups. Combining perspectives across disciplines and nations are, of course, other sound reasons for collaboration. Therefore, finding and/or inviting colleagues internationally may keep us in business and able to continue to investigate the different corners of cyberspace in the most fruitful ways.

Read the full editorial here.

We are honored to present the special issue (3-2015) of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace - Experience and Benefits of Game Playing. This special issue reflects the efforts of a range of European, American and Australian researchers who place the experience of playing video games at the core of their reflective work. Studies on video gaming can be differentiated on the basis of the extent to which the research positions games at the heart of their work, in addition to the extent to which research gives attention to the capacities and thinking of the game player to be able to offer perspectives on player experience. This approach to research is evident in all articles included in this special issue.

Read the full editorial here.

Guest editors of the special issue:
Pascaline Lorentz, Christopher J. Ferguson, Gareth Schott

New call for papers for a special issue of Cyberpsychology:
Online self-disclosure and privacy: Unravelling individuals’ motivations and behaviors"

Guest editors of the special issue:
Michel Walrave, Sonja Utz, Alexander Schouten, Wannes Heirman