About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The peer-reviewed Journal of Research and Didactics of History offers itself is a tool to deepen and spread knowledge about researches and experiences in the field of history teaching, even in a multidisciplinary key. It freely shares scientific contributions on all aspects of the historical ages and issues related to teaching and the dissemination of historical knowledge.

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 The essays are not peer reviewed process.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:

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

Publication Ethics

The following statement is inspired by COPE Code of Conduct:
http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors.pdf.

“Didattica della storia — Journal of Research and Didactics of History” is a peer-reviewed journal and follows this model for the publication of scientific articles. All parties involved in the publication — authors, Editorial Team, reviewers and publisher — are aware of the required ethical standards and subscribe to them.

Duties for the Editorial Team

Editorial team takes all reasonable steps to ensure the quality of the material published in “Didattica della storia”.

Editorial team have a duty to act if they suspect misconduct or if an allegation of misconduct is brought to them. This duty extends to both published and unpublished papers.

The decision of Editorial team and of the International Editorial Board as to accept or reject a paper for publication in the journal is based on subject relevance and originality and is guided by the review of suitably qualified reviewers.

Editorial team will ensure that appropriate reviewers are selected for submissions.

Editorial team strives to ensure that peer review at the journal is fair, unbiased and timely.

A description of peer review process is published, and Editorial team is ready to justify any important deviation from the described process.

Editorial team and International Editorial Board evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Editorial team’s decision may be constrained by such legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. Editorial team provides guidance to authors that encourage accuracy, completeness and clarity of research reporting, including technical editing and the use of appropriate guidelines and checklists.

Editorial team has a system to ensure that material submitted to the Journal remains confidential while under review. Confidentiality of individual information obtained in the course of research or professional interactions is guaranteed.

Duties for Authors

Authors are responsible for the articles they submit: they must assure the originality of their works, being aware of the consequences of misconduct.

Authors should always acknowledge their sources and provide relevant citation details for all publications that have influenced their work.

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication in order to provide access to such data.

Authors are asked to follow the Author’s Guidelines published in the Journal’s website, therefore ensuring accuracy, completeness and clarity of research reporting, including technical editing.

Duties for Reviewers

Reviewers are provided guidance on everything that is expected of them including the need to handle submitted material in confidence.

Reviewers are required to disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission.

Reviewers are encouraged to comment on the originality of submissions and to be alert to redundant publications and plagiarism. They will alert Editorial team regarding intellectual property issues and plagiarism and work to handle potential breaches of intellectual property laws and conventions.

Reviewers should help identifying relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.

Handling of errors and misconducts

Editors will promptly act in case of errors and misconducts, both proven and alleged. In case such as errors in articles or in the publication process, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, appropriate steps will be taken, following the recommendations, guidelines and checklists from COPE. These includes the publication of an erratum (errors from the publication process), corrigendum (errors from the author(s)) or, in the most severe cases, the retraction of the affected work.

The Journal policies will be reviewed periodically, particularly with respect to new recommendations from the COPE.

Indexing and abstracting

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

ACNP – Italian Catalogue of Serials
BASE – Bielefield Academic Search Engine
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
Google Scholar – Academic search engine
Ulrich’s – Global Serials Directory
Worldcat – The world’s largest library catalog

Archiving Policy

The University of Bologna has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.
http://www.depositolegale.it/editori-aderenti/

Publisher

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

Via Filippo Re, 6
40126 – Bologna (Italy)