About

Focus and Scope

Architectural Histories publishes historically grounded research into all aspects of architecture and the built environment and is open to investigations of any region or chronological period. We publish original research of the highest quality from scholars and critics in all stages of their careers and from any geographic or disciplinary background. 

Architectural Histories champions reflection and dialogue about the place of history and historical research within the broader architectural culture as well as the varied and multifaceted ways architecture and the built environment are studied and debated today, across disciplines, cultures, and regions. The journal welcomes a broad range of methodologies and approaches, and it strives to publish scholarship that is not written according to a single formula. In this, the plural in its title is the key both in terms of a diversity of inquiries as well as an approach to history as something to be deciphered through imaginative writing and carefully composed images. Architectural Histories is a leading journal about the study of the past and its repercussions for contemporary architectural culture.

Publication Frequency

Architectural Histories publishes as a continuous volume throughout the year. New articles come online as soon as they have passed peer review, forming one open issue running from January 1 to December 31. Special collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue and within a separate collection page. For further information on Special Collections please click here.

Publication Fees

Architectural Histories does not charge APCs to authors, thanks to a partnership with Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and the support of the EAHN. APCs cover all publication costs (editorial processes; web hosting; indexing; marketing; archiving; DOI registration etc.), and ensure that all of the content is fully open access. If your institution is not currently supporting the platform, we request that you use our 'Recommend Us' tool. The OLH is extremely cost effective and is a not-for-profit charity. However, while we cannot function without financial support and we encourage universities to sign up. Institutional commitment is not required to publish with us. 
 
The EAHN covers a basic copyediting fee for all manuscripts published in Architectural Histories. If a manuscript requires extensive copyediting work due to its length or other factors, authors may have to pay for aditional English-language copyediting fees. Review articles are limited to one copyediting round.

Archiving and Indexing

Architectural Histories is archived and indexed according to the publisher's policy.

Journal Statistics

Core journal statistics for the 2020 volume*:

*The number of acceptances and rejections is based on all decisions made in 2020, and may include papers submitted to the journal prior to 2020.

Definitions
¹Number of new articles received by the journal
²Number of peer review invitation emails that were sent out
³Number of completed peer review reports received
⁴Total number of articles rejected (including desk rejects)
⁵Number of articles rejected prior to peer review
⁶Number of articles that received a 'Accept for publication' decision
⁷Number of acceptances, as a percentage, against the total number of final decisions
⁸'Mean' average from submission to publication for all publications in the volume

Annotation and Post-Publication Comment

The journal platform permits readers to leave comments on the publication page, via the Disqus service. Readers will need a Disqus account to leave comments. Comments may be moderated by the journal; however, if they are non-offensive and relevant to the publication subject, comments will remain online without edit.

The journal platform also includes in-browser annotation and text highlighting options on full text formats via hypothes.is. Readers will require a hypothes.is account to create annotations, and will have the option to make these publicly available, available to a group, or private.