Open Access Published since October 18, 2022

Journal of Digital History

ISSN: 2747-5271

Editor-in-chief: Andreas Fickers

Managing Editor: Frédéric Clavert

Submit manuscript

About this journal

The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is a joint initiative of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg and the De Gruyter publishing group.

The journal serves as a forum for critical debate and discussion in the field of digital history by offering an innovative publication platform and promoting a new form of data-driven scholarship and of transmedia storytelling in the historical sciences. As an international peer-reviewed open access journal, the JDH sets new standards in history publishing based on a novel multi-layered approach. Based on code notebooks, articles include:

a narration layer exploring the possibilities of multimedia storytelling
a hermeneutic layer highlighting the methodological implications of using digital tools, data and code
a data layer providing access to data and making it reusable (when possible).

Jupyter Notebooks are at the heart of the edition and exploration of articles.

Watch the "Presentation of the new Journal of Digital History" on Youtube and learn more about JDH: https://youtu.be/UvS5l1moG3E

The PDF versions of the journal's articles published here do not offer the full experience of the full, multi-layered articles. For those, please visit https://journalofdigitalhistory.org . It is advised to access the desktop version of the articles as the mobile version, too, does not offer readers the full experience, yet. Links to the respective articles are also included in the PDF versions.

Peer Review and Submission Policy

The JDH is a single-blind peer-reviewed journal. It publishes research on all aspects of digital history. Abstracts must first be submitted via the journal website before full papers can be submitted. The managing editor will contact the author(s) to assess the feasibility of the paper. Once the managing editor has approved the paper, it should be submitted in full. Papers must contain the three layers that are characteristic of the JDH. Each layer is evaluated by means of a double-blind peer-review procedure. If you have any editorial questions, you can contact the managing editor.

Please note that your manuscript may be checked for plagiarism via Crossref Similarity Check and please take note of De Gruyter's Publication Ethics Statement.

Instant Gold OA without author APCs: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. Articles are published under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND (authors can opt for CC-BY).

Abstracting and Indexing

Journal of Digital History is covered by the following services:

Baidu Scholar
CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
CNPIEC - cnpLINKer
Dimensions
EBSCO Discovery Service
Google Scholar
J-Gate
KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
MyScienceWork
Naver Academic
Naviga (Softweco)
Primo Central (ExLibris)
ReadCube
Scilit
Semantic Scholar
Summon (ProQuest)
TDNet
WorldCat (OCLC)
X-MOL
Yewno Discover

Topics

External Links

Online Submission of Manuscripts

Volume 2 Issue 1

December 2022

Open Access April 14, 2022

Publishing digital history scholarship in the era of updatism

Frédéric Clavert, Andreas Fickers

Article number: 20220003

Download PDF

Open Access March 9, 2023

Fifty Years of Technocracy. International Migration Management as an Evolving Discourse Coalition

Rik Hoekstra, Marijn Koolen, Marijke van Faassen

Article number: 20220004

Download PDF

Open Access March 2, 2023

Taking the Measure of Social Democracy: Exploring the Ideology of the Socialist International through Topic Modeling

Ettore Costa

Article number: 20220001

Download PDF

Open Access April 14, 2022

"Murderous, Unwarrantable, and Very Cold": Mapping the Rise of Extralegal Collective Killing in the United States, 1783-1865

Patrick Hoehne

Article number: 20211007

Download PDF

Open Access April 14, 2022

Replicating the Kinora: 3D modelling and printing as heuristics in digital media history

Tim van der Heijden, Claude Wolf

Article number: 20211009

Download PDF

Volume 2 (2022)

Issue 1

Volume 1 (2021)

Issue 1

No ranking information is available for this journal.

Submit

Open Call for Papers
Contributions from all subfields of (digital) history are welcome!

We are looking for articles whose structure and argument demonstrate the value of our approach based on the principle of interconnected narrative, hermeneutic and data layers.

Submit an abstract: https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/submit

Our journal aims to become the central hub of critical debate and discussion in the field of Digital History by offering an innovative publication platform, promoting a new form of data-driven scholarship and of transmedia storytelling in the historical sciences.

1) Highlight your Digital Method

Tired of journals asking you to cut down your methodological developments? JDH introduces a hermeneutics layer where you will be able to fully go into detail.

2) Show your Data

There’s no history without primary sources. Turning them into a dataset is a hallmark of digital history today. Expose your dataset and – if possible – make it reusable for other researchers thanks to JDH’s data layer.

3) Narrate (Hi)story

JDH allows you to elaborate a (multi-media) narrative layer that goes beyond the traditional scope of academic journals.

4) Don’t give up on rigour

JDH is based on a single-blind peer review process.

The journal makes use of ipynb notebooks to publish the articles. In addition to that, there is a couple of rules to format content and visualize datasets. The article shall be written in English (and thus use English style typography). You can find the guidelines for authors here: https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/guidelines

Editorial

Editor-in-Chief:

Andreas Fickers, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg

Managing Editor:

Frédéric Clavert, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg

Editorial Board:

- Edward Ayers, University of Richmond, USA

- Anat Ben-David, Open University of Israel, Israel

- Stefano Dall'Aglio, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

- Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

- Elisabeth Guerrard, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg

- Torsten Hiltmann, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

- Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex, UK

- Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

- Mareike König, German Historical Institute Paris, France

- Dilton Maynard, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil

- Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo, Canada

- Emmanuel Ngué Um, University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

- Julia Noordegraaf, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

- Eva Pfanzelter, University of Innsbruck, Austria

- Mirjam Pfeiffer, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg

- Nadezhda Povroznik, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

- Valérie Schafer, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg

- Silke Schwandt, Bielefeld University, Germany

- Pelle Snickars, Umeå University, Sweden

- Sean Takats, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg

- William Thomas, University of Nebraska, USA

- Jane Winters, University of London, UK

- Gerben Zaagsma, University of Luxembourg/Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxembourg

Editorial Office: Frédéric Clavert / frederic.clavert@uni.lu

(Deutsch)

Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
First published: October 18, 2022
Publication Frequency: 1 Issue per Year