Forty Steps with Historical Studies Quarterly

Political Studies and Research Institute decided to publish this quarterly about ten years ago. In ten years this quarterly has published 324 articles with the cooperation of 180 researchers, authors and translators in 40 issues with 10200 papers and represented, analyzed and studied parts of contemporary history of Iran. This paper has double aims first, analyzing the quantity and quality of this historiography activity and second, presenting a study guide for easier use of this collection. For this goal while having a statistical review based on factors like historical period, orientation, subjects and notable articles, we evaluate the comparability of achievements and the quarterly’s goals and approaches.