Focus and Scope

The Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology is seeking to publish profound, rigorous, well-written, high-quality, high-impact papers to generate discussion, debate, fresh perspective.

The research area is the European continent and the Near East in the Greek-Roman times. The topics are: ancient history, ancient philology, epigraphy, papyrology, numismatics, archaeological material, archaeological reports, digital archaeology, archaeometry, reviews.

We intend to have four issues per year.

We strongly encourage the interdisciplinary or ‘bridge-building’ approach of different academic disciplines.

We will use a peer-review system.

The readers will have free access and a pdf version of the published materials will be available for download.

We want to make the Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology a ‘must read’ publication for those who want to learn more about Ancient History.

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology does not charge authors for submission nor for the processing fees.

Section Policies

Archaeological material

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Archaeology

ARCHAEOLOGY

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Bibliographies

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Archaeological topography

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Studies

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Manifesto

Editors
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Prehistory

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Archaeological material

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Ancient artefacts and legislation

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Digital Numismatics

Editors
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Histography

Editors
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Miscellanea

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Digital and statistical ancient history and archaeology

Editors
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Archaeological mapping

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Cultural heritage protection

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Annamaria Pazsint
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Miscellaneous

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Annamaria Pazsint
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

All parties interested in reviewing books for the journal should contact the editorsr by email.

Standard Book Reviews should be no longer than 10 pages although depending on the book being reviewed they may be shorter or long, book reviewers should discuss the length of the review with the assigned Editor before writing.

All book reviews should be prepared and submitted following the general Instructions to Authors of this journal.

The following information should be given about the book being reviewed at the start of each review:

Author / Editor Name, Book Title, Publisher, Year of Publication, ISBN: 000-0-00-000000-0, Number of Pages, Price

Book reviews should be timely and objective and should consider the following:

  • The intended audience for the book and who would find it useful
  • The main ideas and major objectives of the book and how effectively these are accomplished
  • The soundness of methods and information sources used
  • The context or impetus for the book - political controversy, review research or policy, etc
  • Constructive comments about the strength and weaknesses of the book

For any queries about Book Reviews please contact the Editors.

Editors
  • Vitalie Bârcă
  • Cristian Gazdac
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Digital and statistical ancient history and archaeology

Editors
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Annamaria Pazsint
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

IN MEMORIAM

Editors
  • Calin Neamtu
  • Checked Open Submissions
  • Checked Indexed
  • Checked Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All manuscript submitted to JAHA  is a subject of internal and external  double blind review procedure.

First editors of the journal will make an internal review process for check if the manuscript has contributions and development in the area of research covered by journal. If the editors find that a manuscript is proper for publication in JAHA is assigned to an editor. This editor will be chose the three external reviewers and will submit the article to first two reviewers.  This process will take 1 week. In this phase an article can be rejected without external review if the editor find similarity with a recently published article, the topic is outside of the scope of the JAHA, little new information is provided, important flaws in the scientific validity, or an unprofessional presentation.

 

External review will take three weeks including one week for accept the review from reviewers (for each article the reviewer has three working day for accept the review- their availability and interest in reviewing ). The reviewers use a separate sheet for review which is submitted with the body of article. The evaluation sheet contains 10 evaluation criteria which will be appreciated by reviewer for each article.  The result of review process   can be  :

  • Accept the manuscript without modification
  • Accept the manuscript with minor modification
  • Accept the manuscript with major modification
  • Reject the manuscript with the possibility to resend
  • Reject the manuscript 

The article submision will be divided in two parts : 

Cover letter : This part content Title of paper, Name of autors ant their affiliation, a short abstarct and keywords

Article : this part content article body and wil bee sent to reviewers for blind review.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal, we use CC BY-NC-ND license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) wich only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Scientific Committee

 

Christopher Howgego (University of Oxford, Great Britain)

Benjamin Dieter R. Hellings (Yale University, USA)

David Wigg-Wolf (Römisch-Germanische Kommission Frankfurt am Main)

Aleksander Bursche (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Eric Maisel (European Center for Virtual Reality- France/USA)

Florian Matei-Popescu (Institute of Archaeology Bucharest, Romania)

Florin Fodorean (Faculty of History and Philosophy Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Franz Humer (Archaeological Park Carnuntum, Austria)

Fritz Mitthof (University of Vienna, Austria)

Daniela Popescu (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca)

Ispas Virgil  (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca)

Gelu Florea (Faculty of History and Philosophy Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Ian Haynes (University of Newcastle, Great Britain)

Ioan Carol Opris (University of Bucharest, Romania )

Ioannis Liritzis (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Klaus Vondrovec (Kunshistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria)

Maria Roussou (University of Athens, Greece)

Mateusz Żmudziński (University of Wroclaw, Poland)

Mircea Dorin Popovici  (Ovidius University,  Romania)

Oleksandr Symonenko (Ukrainian National Academy of Science Kiev, Ukraine)

Razvan Mateescu (National History Museum of Transylvania Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Ronan Querrec (European Center of Virtual Reality - Brest, France)

Sergiu Musteaţă (University of Kishinev, Republic of Moldova)

Victor Cojocaru (Institute of Archaeology Iaşi, Romania)

Ovidiu Țentea (National Museum of Romanian History)

Cristinel Plantos („1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia)

Publication ethics and malpractice statement

The Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology is seeking to publish profound, rigorous, well-written, high-quality, high-impact papers to generate discussion, debate, fresh perspective.
Therefore, the ethical integrity is a main essential to writing and publication. Important ethical concerns to consider while writing a manuscript include etiquette, fraudulent publication, plagiarism, duplicate publication, authorship, and potential for conflict of interest. As an academic online publication, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology is based on respecting the ethical integrity in writing and publication according to the ’Ethics for researchers’, http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/fp7/89888/ethics-for-researchers_en.pdf, the ‘The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity’, http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/hi/h2020-ethics_code-of-conduct_en.pdf%20and follows the COPE of Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, http://publicationethics.org/files/Code%20of%20Conduct_2.pdf.
All the ethical aspects one should take into account while writing a study (e.g. fraudulent publication, plagiarism, duplicate publication, authorship, conflict of interest) will be entirely avoid by strictly following the regulations regarding citations and copyright. The entire research will be carried out respecting the principles of Integrity in Research Publishing: ‘intellectual honesty in reporting research; accuracy in representing contributions of other scientists; collegiality in scientific interactions, including communications and sharing of information’ (Research Ethics for Social Scientists, London, 2006, p. 113).
In accordance with the code of conduct, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology will report any cases of suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing. Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology reserves the right to use plagiarism-detecting software to screen submitted papers at all times (Turnitin) to uncover potential plagiarism.
Authors must ensure that they have written original works. In addition, they must ensure that the manuscript has not been issued elsewhere. Any work or words of other authors, contributors, or sources should be appropriately credited and referenced. Authors are also responsible for language editing before submitting the article. Authors submitting their works to the journal for publication as original articles confirm that the submitted works represent their authors’ contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works without clearly citing. Any work or words of other authors, contributors, or sources (including online sites) should be appropriately credited and referenced. All authors should disclose financial or other conflict of interest that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript (financial support for the project should be disclosed). When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. An author agrees to the license agreement before submitting the article. All articles must be submitted using online submission procedure. Submitting a paper simultaneously to more than one publication at a time is a breach of publications ethics.
Editors must ensure a fair double-blind peer-review of the submitted articles for publication. They will strive to prevent any potential conflict of interests between the author and editorial and review personnel. Editors will also ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential before publishing. Editor-in-Chief will coordinate the work of the editors.
Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on content without regard to ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, religious belief or political philosophy of the authors. They must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential and must report to the Editor-in-Chief if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s side. They must evaluate the submitted works objectively as well as present clearly their opinions on the works in a clear way in the review form. A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor-in-Chief and excuse himself from the review process.

ISSN: 2360-266X