Kwartalnik Historyczny

Kwartalnik Historyczny [Eng.: Historical Quarterly; KH] is a journal of the Institute of History of Polish Academy of Sciences published in cooperation with the Polish Historical Society (PTH) and distributed in print by Semper Scientific Publishers.

It is Poland’s oldest historical journal, founded by Xawery Liske in 1887. Thus far, 130 yearbooks of the journal have been released. The quarterly issues present articles on Polish and general history from the Middle Ages to recent events, as well as reviews of scholarly books dealing with this chronological range. The quality of publications is assured by the Editorial Committee composed of eminent historians from Poland and abroad, which meets on an annual basis to evaluate the content of the journal.

The contributions to each issue present the hitherto unpublished results of original research, which are selected in keeping with our strict peer review proces . The editorial work on the journal is performed with the utmost care, and the same attitude is adopted regarding typography. Indexed by the European Science Foundation (within the framework of the European Reference Index for Humanities: ERIH and ERIH Plus) and in DOAJ (Kwartalnik Historyczny – DOAJ), it is also recognised as such by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland. Under the Polish system, with every scholarly article published in our quarterly its author earns 100 points for evaluation of their academic work.

Til 2023, the publication of the journal was supported by ca. 60 ad hoc reviewers appointed according to the subject matter of the article (in large part (80 %) these were external reviewers, as stipulated in the communiqué of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of 29 May 2013 on the criteria and procedure for evaluating scientific journals). Ca. 20% of the total number of reviewers were from outside Poland. The editorial team wish to express their gratitude to all who were involved in the process.

The year 2014 saw the publication of the first English-Language Issue of the journal (Special Issue). Since 2017 once in a year we publish English-Language Edition, which is available online in PDF format (it can be downloaded free of charge in its entirety).

The contents of the issues published between 1953 and 2023 (vols. 60–130) are available to all users of the Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes (www.rcin.org.pl) without restrictions. The issues of the quarterly that appeared in the current year are available in open access on the www.apcz.pl academic journal platform. Printed current and past issues are available for purchase at www.semper.istore.pl.

Informations for authors:

Texts for the Kwartalnik Historyczny can be submitted to: kh@ihpan.edu.pl. The editorial office does not return unsolicited texts. The editorial staff appreciates the effort made by authors in making their texts comply with the editorial guidelines of the journal (current version for Polish editions: KH 1, 2024, to be downloaded from the journal’s website; current version for English-Language Edition guidance cf.: KH Eng.-Lang. Ed. no. 7, 2023) and in using the abbreviations from the list provided and the rules for the transliteration of Slavonic languages written in the Cyrillic script included therein. Accepted contributions need to be supplied with a bibliography and five keywords.

The length of the submitted contributions must not exceed 80,000 characters including spaces and footnotes (this refers to articles, reviews articles, research reports) or 14,400 characters, including spaces and footnotes, in the case of book reviews.

Please note that we do not publish reviews of scholarly books published in translation or popular science books. The reviews to be published in the Kwartalnik Historyczny may only deal with the original language editions. Research articles (including review articles) and research reports should be provided with a title informing about the subject matter of the article, a summary of up to 1,800 characters in Polish or English and an abstract of up to 500 characters to introduce the reader to the subject matter of the text.

The authors are expected to attach to the proposed research article, review article and book review alike a ‘Declaration of the originality of the publication’, which serves to prevent the prohibited practices of guest authorship and ghostwriting and to indicate the sources of research funding (to be downloaded in Polish or English on the journal’s website).

Editorial Committee 2023–2025:
Dániel Bagi (Budapest), Anna Barańska (Lublin), Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (London), Jarosław Czubaty (Warsaw), Dorota Dukwicz (EDITOR-IN-CHIEF; Warsaw), Marian Dygo (Pułtusk–Warsaw), Jerzy Eisler (Warsaw), Karin Friedrich (Aberdeen), Robert Frost (Aberdeen), Catherine Gouseff (Paris), Jarosław Hrycak (Lviv), Magdalena Hułas (Warsaw), Maciej Janowski (Warsaw), Tomasz Jurek (Poznań), Monika Jusupović (secretary; Warsaw), Bartosz Kaliski (deputy editor, Warsaw), Tomasz Kizwalter (Warsaw), Wojciech Kriegseisen (Warsaw), Marta Kuc-Czerep (secretary; Warsaw) Cezary Kuklo (Białystok), Lidia Michalska-Bracha (Kielce), Roman Michałowski (Warsaw), Krzysztof Mikulski (Toruń), Boris V. Nosov (Moscow), Andrzej Nowak (Cracow/Warsaw), Edward Opaliński (deputy editor; Warsaw), Grzegorz Pac (deputy editor, Warsaw), Jerzy Strzelczyk (Poznań),  Philipp Ther (Vienna), Mariusz Wołos (Cracow)

Editing of Polish texts: Małgorzata Świerzyńska

English-Language Editions support: Bogusława Pilch

Kwartalnik Historyczny
Instytut Historii PAN
Rynek Starego Miasta 31
PL   00-272 Warszawa

e-mail: kh@ihpan.edu.pl

Journal website: http://kh-ihpan.edu.pl