About the Journal

Welcome to Revista H2D, a leading publication dedicated to the exploration and advancement of Digital Humanities. As the digital age continues to revolutionize the way we understand, interpret, and interact with the humanities, our journal serves as a platform for academic discourse, innovative research, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Our mission is to bridge the gap between humanities research and cutting-edge technological advancements to address the societal challenges outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and the new demands of the job market.

Since 2024, H2D Magazine has taken on a new dimension as an interinstitutional journal. This effort brings together a diverse team of chief editors from Brazil and Angola, with the main coordination based in Portugal. This international collaboration underscores our commitment to fostering a global dialogue in Digital Humanities, leveraging the rich academic traditions and perspectives of the Lusophone world.

Recognizing the inherently interdisciplinary nature of Digital Humanities, we strive to create a space where researchers from various fields—ranging from literature, history, and philosophy to computer science, social sciences, engineering, medicine, and information science, among others—can collaborate and contribute to a vibrant academic community.

Our goal is to promote a dynamic academic environment where researchers, educators, and professionals can share their perspectives on the transformative impact of digital tools and methodologies on the humanities. In this context of transdisciplinary dialogue, we invite both the academic and non-academic communities to submit scholarly articles, reports on experiences/pedagogical projects, and presentations of technological resources/tools, as well as other contributions that promote the value of the humanities through a heuristic engagement with technology. These works will be published in two annual volumes, one per semester, under an open-access regime. Submissions may be written in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, or English. We welcome works exploring, among other topics, the following:

  • Audio/video data  
  • Author profiling  
  • Corpora comparison  
  • Data Analysis  
  • Data repositories  
  • Data visualisation  
  • Digital archives  
  • Digital content creation (Infographics, Animated videos, Podcasts)  
  • Digital libraries  
  • digital edition  
  • Entity recognition  
  • Geolocalization  
  • Human-centred design  
  • Interactive Dashboards  
  • Language Corpora  
  • LLM & LMM  
  • Multimodal Communication  
  • natural language processing  
  • New research methodologies and design  
  • Open Access and Open Science  
  • Project management in digital humanities  
  • Science Communication  
  • Sentiment analysis & Opinion mining  
  • Social media  
  • Summarization  
  • Text cleaning and parsing techniques  
  • Text simplification  
  • Text statistics  
  • textual heritage  
  • Terminology extraction  
  • Topic modeling  
  • Tools for extracting and cleaning data  
  • Web scraping techniques

e-ISSN: 2184-562X

Journal Sections

The H2D Journal includes the following sections:

  • Articles: long articles (up to 6,000 words excluding references) and short articles (up to 2,000 words excluding references).
  • H2D Live: Publication in audiovisual format that will be available in the journal's channel (H2D Live - short talks).
  • Miscellaneous: interviews, reviews and other mono or multimodal proposals.

Submission Model

H2D welcomes submissions on a continuous basis. Authors may submit their proposals at any time, through the following link: https://revistas.uminho.pt/index.php/h2d/login, and must comply with the Journal guidelines. 

Review Model

H2 adopts an open peer review model, in which authors know who the reviewers are and vice-versa. All reviewers of a volume are mentioned in the publication. This model increases transparency and accountability among reviewers and allows them to receive credit for their work, which may be especially relevant for early career researchers. 

Each paper is sent to two external reviewers, and in case of one favorable and one unfavorable opinion, a third opinion should be requested. However, the Editorial Board reserves the right to reject papers that do not fall within the scope of the H2D Journal, without submitting them to the review process.

Publication Model

H2D operates under a continuous publication model. Once the proposals have been accepted, they are published in a single volume, corresponding to the ongoing year. This publication model is intended to streamline the process of communicating and making research available. 

Open Access Policy

H2D provides open and immediate access to its contents, based on the principle of making scientific knowledge freely available. All published documents must have the respective DOI (Digital Object Identifier), as well as the identification of the respective author(s) through their ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), whenever applicable. 

Authors may submit one or more proposals to the Journal, and no fees will be charged for publication. 

Privacy Statement

  • Personal information (such as names and addresses) is used exclusively for services provided by the Journal. They are not made available to third parties nor used for other purposes.
  • Authors who publish in H2D agree to the following terms:
    • Authors retain the copyright and grant the Journal the right of first publication. The contributions are simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows the sharing of work with acknowledgment of its authorship and initial publication in H2D.

Authors are allowed to upload the contribution published in H2D to institutional repositories or other academic content distribution platforms (e.g. ResearchGate).

Code of Ethics

H2D follows the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics; http://publicationethics.org) and the University of Minho Code of Ethical Conduct.