Review Process

Fair, unbiased, competent, rigorous, and constructive peer review is critical to maintaining the standards of our publications. Peer review is a voluntary activity carried out by scholars as a means of contributing to the academic fields we cover.
History and the World uses doubleblind peer review (the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers, and the reviewers do not know the identity of the authors at the time of the review) and requires a minimum of two independent peer reviewers, representing different locations and not employed at the institution where the author is affiliated, to review manuscript of article for consideration in the journal. 

Rules of the Peer Review Process

1. We invite reviewers on the basis of their competence and professional expertise. The reviewers are asked to provide a fair, honest, and respectful assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript, containing possible suggestions for further work which the editors will forward to the author ensuring that anonymity is maintained.
2. We make every effort to avoid selecting reviewers who may have competing interests that might prevent them from providing a fair and unbiased opinion.
3. We respect the confidentiality of the peer review process. The manuscripts are fully anonymized before reviewing; at all stages of the review process the author and reviewers remain anonymous, their identity is strictly confidential to members of the editorial team.
4. We provide reviewers with substantive and ethical reviewing principles (based on COPE recommendations), which they accept by agreeing to perform the review. The editorial team commits to recognize warning signs of fraudulent or manipulated peer review or peer reviewer’s unauthorized use of manuscripts for their own purposes.
5. The editors of History and the World who submit their texts to the journal are completely excluded from all stages of the review process.

Stages of the Review Process

1. Internal reviewing and preliminary selection of submitted manuscripts by the editorial team  (manuscripts may be desk rejected, sent back to the author for correction or further elaboration, or qualified for peer review).
2. Inviting qualified peer reviewers in line with ethics.
3. Double blind peer reviewing process. The reviewers assess the manuscripts in writing. A review must include an overall recommendation to: accept manuscript for publication, accept with minor or major revisions, or reject it.
4. Additional review in case of diverging recommendations.
5. The final decision in this regard is taken by the Editor-in-Chief.

Cooperating Reviewers

2025

Enrique Quintana Cifuentes (University of Murcia, Spain)
Matteo Compareti (Capital Normal University, Beijing, China)
Peregrine Horden (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
Ebru Mandacı (Bitlis Eren University, Turkey)
Michael E. Moore (University of Iowa, USA)
Ciro Lo Muzio (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Nelly Ognyanova (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Mariyana Nikolova Stamova (Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Oleh Strelko (National Transport University, Ukraine)
Gianfilippo Terribili (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
Willem Vogelsang (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands)

2024

Katarzyna Balbuza (UAM Poznań, Poland)
Enrique Quintana Cifuentes (University of Murcia, Spain)
Geoffrey Greatrex (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Matteo Compareti (Capital Normal University, Beijing, China)
Matthias Kappler (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Peregrine Horden (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)  
Judith A. Lerner (New York University, USA)
Nelly Ognyanova (Sofia University, Bulgaria) 
Szymon Olszaniec (UMK Toruń, Poland)
Anne Redgate (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (the British Museum, London, United Kingdom)
Michael Shenkar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Tom Sauer (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium) 

2023

Ivan Almes (Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine)
Matteo Compareti (Capital Normal University, Beijing, China)
James R. Felak (University of Washington, USA)
Kerstin Susanne Jobst (University of Vienna, Austria)
Valdemaras Klumbys (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Martin Malek (National Defense Academy Vienna, Austria)
Viviana Nosilia (University of Padova, Italy)
Anne Redgate (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
Jan Tavernier (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Andrei Zagorski (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia)

2022

Katarzyna Balbuza (UAM Poznań, Poland)
Fereidoun Biglari (National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran)
Rémy Boucharlat (University of Lyon, France)
Carlos Santos Carretero  (University of Murcia, Spain / Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, Israel)
Jan Čížek (University of Ostrava, Czech)
Henry Colburn (University of Southern California, USA)
Mehrdad Ghodrat Dizaji (Urmia University, Iran)
Ercüment Yildirim (Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Turkey)

2021

Omar Coloru (University of Bari, Italy)
Andrey Yurievich Dvornichenko (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
Anna Krasnowolska (UJ Kraków, Poland)
Meysam Labbaf-Khaniki (University of Tehran, Iran)
Alexandre Almeida Marcussi (The Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil)
Elena Andreevna Marushiakova-Popova (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Paolo Ognibene (University of Bologna, Italy)
Stefan Rohdewald (Leipzig University, Germany)
Thiago Clemêncio Sapede (EHESS - The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, France)
Maria Sierra-Alonso (University of Seville, Spain)