The Open Peer Review Journal is an open peer-reviewed academic journal on all aspects of public history addressing a wider audience to popularize academic research and debates.

[5][6] The journal publishes in English and in German and additionally in the mother tongue of each author.

The journal has the explicit aim to link the discussions of Public historians and history educationalists.

[7] That aim of bridging an academic gap has been criticized some time age.

[8] The outreach of the journal is indicated with 27,600 visits and 400,000 page views per month.