Mezzo secolo di «Quaderni Storici»: una storia redazionale a confronto

[Machine translation] The essay reconstructs and discusses the scientific history of a history journal (Historical Papers) since its foundation, and compares it with the discussions and transformations that have affected the practice of the discipline and the cultural work of history journals at national and international levels. It analyzes in an original way, and with specific references, continuity and discontinuity in editorial policies, and compares them with the wider debates that have animated the discipline. The contribution is part of a more general reflection that in recent years has concerned the transformation of the role of journals in scientific discussion, and the changes that have specifically affected their functioning, also due to the implications related to new forms of dissemination, and to the role of evaluating research. It is part of a journal issue (class A for historical disciplines) dedicated more generally to the topic, and therefore it is placed in dialogue with other contributions within it, and, potentially, with national and international literature on the subject of the role of scientific journals, which has recently become of very wide interest.