Peer Review


The peer-review procedure represents the analysis and critical assessment of scientific manuscripts by expert reviewers who are not members in the editorial board of that journal.
The peer-review procedure aims to increase the scientific quality of published papers by:

  • Selecting for publication only those papers which are worthy and relevant for the topic and research directions of the journal;
  • Rejecting the papers which are not appropriate in terms of quality or relevant for the journal’s profile;
  • Increasing the individual quality of published articles, following their critical assessment by independent specialists.


Peer-review stages


Preliminary stage
All papers received are assigned a number, which will be used throughout the procedure, so as to secure the impartiality and the confidentially of the review procedure. In maximum seven days, the author will receive a confirmation message, with information regarding the peer-review process.
During this stage, the editorial board verifies that the author sent an unpublished paper or a paper that is not reviewed by another Romanian and foreign academic journal and checks if the paper respects the provisions of the Romanian Law (206/2004) regarding the good conduct in scientific research.


Editorial Board Peer-Review
This stage refers to the evaluation of manuscripts by members of the editorial board, so as to identify and select the papers which can be included in the scientific directions of our journal.

 This analysis is done on two dimensions:
- content: the paper covers a topic included in the field of historical sciences, is an original paper, has a substantial scientific content, has not major deficiencies of logical structure and scientific construction etc. The text is immediately checked using dedicated anti-plagiarism software.
- form: the paper respects the journal house-style and has all other compulsory elements (keywords, abstract).

If the text turns out to be plagiarized, if there are too many spelling mistakes or if the translation into a foreign language is not good, the text is rejected immediately, and the author is notified by email.


Expert Peer-Review
The expert peer-review is done by two readers, members of the Romanian and international scientific community, experts in the restricted area in which that paper is included. The readers are selected from among the collaborators who agreed to participate in the peer-review process. The review is done by means of a standard peer-review form, which the experts receive together with the reviewed paper. These experts assess the paper, in a mutually agreed period of time, taking into account the following criteria:
- its scientific quality (scientific basis, level of originality etc.)
- its relevance and impact (relevance and originality of sources, clarity and accuracy of argumentation, expected impact).
The readers will not be involved in the peer-review process if they cannot evaluate the manuscript in the given time or if they acknowledge, from the text of the reviewed paper, any kind of incompatibility with the person / persons whom they think is the author of the assessed paper.
The Expert Peer-Review is completed with the readers making specific remarks related to the form and content of the reviewed paper and by giving one of the following three grades:
- accepted for publication without any changes;
- accepted for publication, pending specific changes;
- rejected.
If there are major differences between the grades of the two reviewers, the editorial board will employ a third expert. The author will be presented these experts’ recommendations, preserving the full confidentiality between the author (authors) of the paper and its reviewers.
After the author resubmits his / her paper, it will be forwarded to the same reviewers, who assess the opportunity of publishing the paper. The final decision regarding the publication of a specific paper belongs to the Editorial Board.

The complete track of a study from editing to printing

  1. After all studies have been checked and corrected by reviewers and authors, the Editorial Board prepares the table of contents for the journal.
  2. The Desktop Publisher has the general make-up of the magazine, that is, a WORD document with the first pages, the marks of the columns and the styles used.
  3. The Desktop Publisher elaborates a work copy of the general make-up which he / she particularizes for each issue, starting with the first pages.
  4. The Desktop Publisher receives from Editorial Board each material accompanied by the summary and keywords, as well as the specification of the column it will be included into.
  5. The Desktop Publisher introduces each material in the general make-up of the issue, in the respective column.
  6. The Desktop Publisher prints the material and sends it to Proofreader.
  7. After having made the corrections, Proofreader, together with the Desktop Publisher, bring the required changes to the electronic version.
  8. The Desktop Publisher finalizes the respective journal issue in electronic format, drawing up the table of contents, page indications and numbering printing sheets.
  9. The Desktop Publisher prints the entire issue of the journal and sends it to the Editor-in-chief.
  10.  After the Editor-in-chief makes the last corrections, the Desktop Publisher receives the print and inserts the corrections in the electronic format.
  11. The Desktop Publisher turns the electronic text of the magazine issue from WORD into PDF and makes the cover in electronic format.
  12. The Editor-in-chief sends by e-mail to each author whose material(s) was/were published in that issue the final PDF format of the material, as it was printed.
  13.  The current issue is published on the journal’s site.
  14. The Desktop Publisher sends by e-mail to the International Data Bases the Editorial Office is in collaboration with the final PDF format of the issue, as per the requirements of each collaboration contract.