Mission Statement
RIHA Journal is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal for the history of art and visual culture. It features outstanding research articles that offer significant contributions to current scholarship.
The journal is a joint project of the 30 member institutes of RIHA – International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art.
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Based on a de-centralized editorial structure, the journal explores new ways of international publishing: Each of the RIHA institutes is locally responsible for establishing and maintaining the contact with authors, for copy editing the manuscripts, and for organizing the peer reviews.
Edited by 30 institutes in 21 countries, the journal provides an excellent medium for fostering international discourse among scholars.
RIHA Journal seeks to reflect the manifold dimensions of the discipline and is open to the whole range of art historical topics and approaches. A double-blind peer review process performed by experts in the field ensures the highest standards of scholarship. The journal offers articles in the five official CIHA languages English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, as well as in other languages, depending on the capacities of the RIHA institutes.
The editors take seriously the need of scholars to publish their research results easily and quickly. Hence the journal seeks to offer its authors short editing processes of three months only from submission to publication. For the same reason, articles are published, not in periodical issues, but one at a time.
RIHA Journal is a not-for-profit e-journal committed to the principles of Open Access: All articles are available without restriction and free of charge. Subscribe to our RSS Feed to keep up to date with new articles!
We invite submissions on any topic in the history of art, both from members of the RIHA institutes and from any other researchers in the history of art. Submissions are welcome any time!
Besides single articles, we also welcome proposals for Special Issues.
For more information, please consult our Guidelines for authors, readers, and reviewers, or contact our local editors at the RIHA Institutes.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments.
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Funding to RIHA Journal is provided by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, BKM).
