About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Journal Didattica della storia – Journal of Research and Didactics of History is a digital platform dedicated to the in-depth study and dissemination of research and practices in the field of history education. It pays particular attention to interdisciplinarity and the integration of diverse methodological approaches. The journal aims to make a significant contribution to both theoretical and practical reflection on the teaching and communication of historical knowledge, promoting an open, critical, and informed understanding of the past.

Freely accessible, the journal publishes scientific contributions focused on research and experiences in history education across all historical periods, with a particular emphasis on connections among the Middle Ages, the modern era, and contemporary history.

It welcomes studies addressing political-institutional, socio-economic, religious, cultural, military, environmental, and gender-related phenomena. Contributions are encouraged to integrate perspectives from historical methodology, historiography, sources, and didactics. Special attention is also given to topics such as medievalism, historical memory, the public role of history, and the various forms of its communication — including the influence of new digital technologies on the discipline.

The journal is intended for teachers, researchers, students, cultural practitioners, and anyone interested in history and its transmission. It serves as a space for dialogue, professional development, and dynamic, open scientific exchange.

Section Policy

Articles

The section includes the publication of essays that present the results of original scientific research. All articles are subjected to Double Blind Peer Review process.

Experiences

The section includes the publication of scientific essays that present history teaching experiences. All articles are subjected to Double Blind Peer Review process.

Reviews

The section includes the publication of reviews of books on the teaching of history. The essays are not peer reviewed process.

Peer Review Process

When the Journal of Research and Didactics of History editorial team receives a new article, the double-blind peer-review process will proceed as follows:

  1. The editorial team communicates to the author that the article has been received.

  2. The editors make an initial assessment of the article according to the following criteria: relevance of the topic; overall quality of the contribution according to the standard of the journal; compliance with the editorial standards. Editors may refuse the article and communicate their decision to the author. Each article will also undergo plagiarism detection through iThenticate.

  3. After successfully passing the first evaluation, the article will be sent to two anonymous reviewers, experts on the subject and/or of the methodological approach. The reviewers will evaluate the article with the following possible outcomes: article accepted, article accepted with minor changes or additions, article accepted with substantial changes/additions (the new version of the article will be submitted again to the peer-review process), article refused.

  4. No later than 15 days, according to the referees' evaluation, the editors will communicate to the author the final decision on the article. In case of request for minor changes, the author will have 2 weeks to change the article in accordance with the demands of the referee and provide the final version.

  5. Publication

The editorial board reserves the right to decide in which issue of Journal of Research and Didactics of History the article that passed all the evaluation stages will be published.

Publication Frequency

The journal publishes one issue per year on November. Submissions deadline is on the 1st of June.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

The Journal adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Dipartimento di Scienze Dell’Educazione «Giovanni Maria Bertin» – EDU
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Via Filippo Re, 6
40126 – Bologna (Italy)

Sponsors

  • Laboratorio Multidisciplinare di Ricerca Storica – LMRS