《南非歷史期刊》得到了充分認(rèn)可、同行評(píng)審，被國(guó)際公認(rèn)為南非出版的首要?dú)v史期刊，促進(jìn)了該國(guó)以及南部非洲地區(qū)的重大歷史學(xué)術(shù)研究。作為南部非洲歷史學(xué)會(huì)的期刊，它為南非歷史的原始思考提供了一個(gè)高質(zhì)量的媒介，并因此塑造并繼續(xù)為定義該地區(qū)的歷史編纂做出貢獻(xiàn)。《南非歷史雜志》每季度出版一期，出版了各種各樣的材料，包括從前殖民地社區(qū)到21世紀(jì)早期轉(zhuǎn)型社會(huì)的相關(guān)問(wèn)題，歷史的實(shí)踐和教學(xué)以及關(guān)于遺產(chǎn)和紀(jì)念過(guò)去的辯論。它包括突破性的創(chuàng)新研究、一般歷史和歷史編纂綜述、歷史辯論和回訪、對(duì)歷史學(xué)家的采訪和對(duì)他們工作的反思、評(píng)論文章和重要書(shū)籍的評(píng)論。它定期發(fā)表專(zhuān)題文章，主題包括：“南非口述歷史”（2008年）；“讓我們談?wù)劙鄨D斯坦人”（2012年）；“茨瓦納歷史”（2014年）。雜志上發(fā)表的所有研究文章都經(jīng)過(guò)了嚴(yán)格的同行評(píng)審，基于最初的編輯篩選和至少兩名評(píng)審員的匿名評(píng)審。該期刊遵循“雙盲”的材料評(píng)價(jià)過(guò)程：作者的姓名不向推薦人披露，推薦人的身份也不向作者披露。我們要求我們的推薦人編寫(xiě)有用的報(bào)告，充分激發(fā)他們對(duì)出版物的建議。該期刊在南非獲得完全認(rèn)證，列在湯森路透藝術(shù)與人文引文索引中，其內(nèi)容也相應(yīng)地被引用、注釋、索引和/或摘錄。

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