Research article
An original argument grounded in a defined primary corpus and situated in relevant scholarship.
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Show the route from evidence to inference.
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Planned article types
Form follows the scholarly task.
Word ranges are guidance, not proxies for quality. Each type has a distinct evidence and review checklist.
8,000–12,000 words
Primary-source study
A source-centered intervention that explains provenance, mediation, evidentiary value, and limits.
Philosophical argument
A sustained argument with explicit premises, objections, historical context where relevant, and conceptual stakes.
Comparative analysis
A structured comparison whose cases, dimensions, evidence, and inference rules are declared in advance.
Critical exchange
A paired argument and response reviewed as one scholarly record.
Methods note
A focused, reproducible intervention in source criticism, translation, archival, computational, or comparative method.
Before a manuscript enters review
The submission packet.
- An abstract that states the question, argument, evidence, method, and limits.
- A research protocol naming the primary corpus and relevant secondary scholarship.
- A source ledger with retraceable locators for every material factual claim.
- A completed Bloch Lens identifying silence, mediation, comparison, counterevidence, and revision conditions.
- Authorship contributions, funding, competing interests, permissions, and ethics disclosures.
- An anonymized manuscript plus a separate identity and affiliation record.
- Data, transcription, translation, image, and code availability statements where applicable.
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