Dereito: revista xurídica da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela is a half-yearly published journal founded in 1992. It is addressed to lecturers and researchers as well as professionals from the public and private sectors carrying out their activities in the field of juridical sciences.
Dereito is indexed in International Political Science Abstracts, Political Science Complete, ERIH+, Sociological Abstracts (Select.), Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, SocINDEX, Scopus (descontinua), Fuente Académica Premier, Academic Search Complete, Current Abstracts, TOC Premier, ISOC, ULRICH, DIALNET, and it is present at 38.09% of the Spanish universities in which the corresponding studies are offered (24/63).
In the RESH index, Dereito occupies, in the 2005-2009 period, position 12 of 71 among the Spanish journals in juridical sciences with most impact. The index that measures the impact is the citation index and, to calculate it, the citations in the main Spanish scientific journals and the citations received at the Web of Science have been taken into account.
The digital portal of Dereito is published in Galician and Spanish; the languages of publication are the Galician, Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and Italian.