Journal identity

Aims & Scope

The Revue d'Histoire Théorique (RHT) is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to the development and consolidation of historionomy as an autonomous academic discipline.

Journal identity

Field	Value
Full title	Revue d'Histoire Théorique
Abbreviated title	RHT
Discipline	Historionomy / Theoretical history / Historical political science
Type	Peer-reviewed scientific journal
Languages	French — English (articles in either language, bilingual abstracts required)
Frequency	One issue per year — fixed publication date
Access	Open Access — Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Aims

Aims of the journal

RHT pursues three core objectives:

Establish historionomy on scientific grounds

Provide a rigorous publication venue for building, testing, and consolidating the theoretical, methodological, and empirical corpus of historionomy.

Produce cumulative knowledge

Encourage research that contributes to scientific progression — testable hypotheses, falsifiable results, explicit engagement with existing scholarship.

Anchor historionomy in international academic dialogue

Foster exchange between historionomy, comparative history, political science, and historical sociology.

Scope

Core topics

RHT publishes research on the following topics, provided it meets the scientific standards defined in the Author Guidelines:

—Theory and epistemology of historionomy
—Long-term political cycles: absolutism, revolution, imperial relapse, parliamentarism
—Modelling and formalisation of historical cycles
—Comparative history of political regimes over the long term
—Quantitative and qualitative methods applied to cyclical political history
—Empirical case studies illuminating historionomic cycles
—Critical engagement with the foundational works of historionomy

Out of scope

RHT is not a journal of general history, political commentary, or essay writing. The following submissions are systematically out of scope:

✕Factual historical articles without an explicit theoretical or cyclical dimension
✕Political commentary or current-affairs analysis
✕Opinion pieces, columns, or popularisation texts
✕Work not situated within an explicit methodological framework
✕Articles whose contribution to the historionomic literature is not demonstrated

Scientific positioning

Historionomy is an emerging discipline that studies structural regularities and recurrent cycles in political history. It differs from narrative history through its nomological ambition: identifying laws or tendencies stable enough to carry predictive or explanatory value beyond the individual case.

RHT is positioned at the intersection of several established academic fields:

RHT positioning relative to neighbouring disciplines
Neighbouring discipline	Point of convergence	RHT distinction
Comparative history	Multi-case analysis, long duration	Emphasis on cyclicity and predictability
Political science	Regimes, transitions, institutions	Long historical perspective, nomological dimension
Historical sociology	Social structures and change	Focus on specific political cycles
Cliodynamics	Mathematical modelling of history	More qualitative and institutional approach

Article types

Article types accepted

RHT accepts the following types of contributions, all subject to peer review:

Article type	Description	Indicative length
Research article	Original contribution, theoretical or empirical, to historionomy. IMRAD structure required.	7,000 – 12,000 words
Theoretical / methodological article	Conceptual development, model proposal, methodological critique.	6,000 – 10,000 words
Case study	Empirical analysis of a cycle or historical sequence through the historionomic lens.	5,000 – 9,000 words
Research note	Preliminary results, new data, targeted empirical observations.	2,000 – 4,000 words
Review article	Systematic literature review on a historionomic theme or debate.	8,000 – 15,000 words

All word limits exclude bibliography and appendices. Limits are indicative; exceptions may be granted by the editor-in-chief upon reasoned request.

Peer review

All manuscripts submitted to RHT undergo double-blind peer review. No contribution is published without a positive external evaluation.

Ethics and scientific integrity

RHT subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and to international standards of scientific integrity. Submission implies the author's full adherence to these principles.

Indexing

RHT is in the process of preparing its applications to the following organisations:

Organisation	Status
DOAJ	Application planned after publication of the first issue (year 1)
ERIH+	Application planned after two published issues (years 2 and 3)
HAL / OpenAIRE	Systematic deposit of articles planned
Google Scholar	Automatic indexing via structured metadata

Official document — Revue d'Histoire Théorique · Version 1.1 · DOAJ, ERIH+, HAL compliant