Focus and Scope

Revista Dereito is a scientific publication aimed for both research and teaching personnel as well as for professionals from the public and private sectors that carry out their activities in the field of Law. Its goals are:

a) The spreading of the knowledge in the scientific and teaching areas of Law,  by means of the publication of research work and articles related to teaching at university level, characterized by their originality and quality.

b) Establishing a vehicle for reflection and debate about all kinds of law problems, both from the theoretical and practical point of view, by means of the publication of opinion articles and descriptive works of practical experiences.

The magazine will publish articles in Galician, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and English.

Peer Review Process

The articles that comply with the technical publication rules of the magazine will be sent for evaluation, without mention of authorship, to two people designated ad hoc by the Secretary of the magazine.

The evaluation will judge the originality, innovation, relevancy, rigour, methodological quality and formal presentation of the articles.

The evaluation will be sent by the digital platform to the publisher, and its final result can be accepted, accepted with minor corrections, accepted with substantive modifications or rejected.

The results of the evaluation, both positive or negative, will be notified by e-mail to the people who sent the articles, together with the decision of the people who performed the evaluation, with no mention of their identity.

The Editorial Office will accept articles with two positive evaluations for publication, even if the evaluations include suggestions. In that last case, the Secretary of the magazine will return the article to the sender in order for him to include the suggestion in a non-extendable 10 day deadline.

Articles receiving two negative evaluations will not be published. If an article obtains both a positive and a negative evaluation, it will be sent to a third person for further evaluation. Only if this third evaluation is positive will the Editorial Office accept the article for publication.

Publication Frequency

Biannually

Open Access Policy

Dereitohas open access to its full-text content.

There are no processing charges.

Indexed/abstracted in

The journal, of biannual periodicity, is indexed in International Political Science Abstracts, Political Science Complete, ERIH+, Sociological abstracts(Select.), Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, SocINDEX, Scopus (discontinua), Fuente Academica Premier, Academic Search Complete, Current Abstracts, TOC Premier, ISOC, ULRICH, DIALNET, and in 38,09% of the Spanish universities with the degree (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.

Disclaimer and exclusion of liability

Dereito is not responsible for the contents of any article, and the fact of its sponsoring the spreading of an article does not necessarily entail its agreement on the theses exposed in the article.  The editor, in any case, is free of any responsibility resulting from the author’s eventual violation of intellectual property rights.

Review form

Review form

Ethical Guidelines

The publication of scientific articles involves several actors, including the publisher, the editors in chief, the reviewers and the authors. It is expected that each of these agents have an ethical behaviour referred to ethical principles partially inspired in those provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines.

Publisher:

The publisher provides technical assistance and support to the journal editors in the use of the web platform, and maintains the software updated and able to facilitate the submission, evaluation and publication process of scientific works. The publisher also collaborates with the editors in chief indexing the papers, providing information about the databases requirements and, so, contributing to the Journal positioning in the usual rankings. Broadly, the publisher should helps to increase the editorial quality of the Journal, contributing to its visibility, internationalization and impact.

Editors in chief:

Editors in chief ensures that manuscripts submitted are evaluated based exclusively on its intellectual content, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political affiliation or philosophical trend of the authors. They guarantee the confidentiality of the work, not revealing the identity of the authors to other agents except to those authorized by the publisher, the potential reviewers, the actual reviewers or the editorial board of the journal. Editors can refuse a job if it not satisfy the formal requirements or approach a subject not belonging to the scope of the journal. Editors communicate within the deadlines, once they see the referees and heard the editorial board, the acceptance or rejection of the submitted papers.

Reviewers:

Reviewers should refuse to refer a paper if they do not feel qualified in the subject approached or if they can not take the evaluation within the deadline suggested by the Journal. The referee report should be objective and written in a clearly and reasoned style. Reviewers should avoid ad hominem references and offensive or demeaning comments; their suggestions should focus mainly on the improvement work. Reviewers should treat manuscripts as confidential documents, and their contents is not used in their own works. Reviewers should reject referee papers if they show a conflict of interest, for example a past or present relationship with the paper's authors or the institutions they depend.

Authors:

Authors should submit papers containing original research on a clearly identifiable and not previously published subject. They should not send articles including a substantial part of others papers or books already published. Papers should be written so that they can be understood or replicated by reviewers. If ideas of others are used, they should be clearly referenced; plagiarism is an unacceptable behaviour and its detection involves cancel the submission or remove it from the platform if it was already published. In case of co-authorship, all people that significantly contribute to the paper are considered its author; each author should be able to identify which parts of the work are own and which parts are from others authors, and must maintain confidentiality of the all contents until the article is published. Simultaneous paper sending to other Journals is a sufficient condition for archiving it. If in the process of the paper edition the authors find errors or improprieties, they should communicate to the editors in chief as soon as possible and cooperate in their correction. Authors should communicate the potential conflict of interest between the paper findings and the financial support.

These guidelines are consistent with the ethical code of the University of Santiago de Compostela, institution to which this Journal belongs.

https://www.usc.es/gl/goberno/valedor/codigoetico/CodigoEtico.html

Anti-plagiarism Policy

This journal is a member of Similarity Check, a multi-publisher initiative started by Crossref to screen published and submitted content for originality.

Through Similarity Check, we use the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted or published manuscripts.

By depositing all of our content in the Similarity Check database we allow other Similarity Check members to screen their submissions against our published articles.

Digital preservation policy

This journal develops various processes in order to preserve permanent access to digital objects hosted on its own servers:

- Backups.
- Monitoring of the technological environment to foresee possible migrations of obsolete formats or software.
- Digital preservation metadata.
- Use of DOI.

The files published on this website are available in easily reproducible formats (PDF)

Interoperability protocols

Dereito provides an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that allows other websites and information services to harvest the published content metadata.

Specifications:

OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0
Dublin Core Metadata 1.1

URL for harvesters:
https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/dereito/oai

Journal History

From its founding in 1992, Dereito. Revista Xurídica da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela aspires to be included among the group of reference magazines in the national and international scope and, thus, tries to meet as many of the quality criteria established in the valuation indexes of scientific magazines as possible.

In that sense, there have been remarkable efforts during the last decade towards its inclusion in databases like RESH, DICE and LATINDEX. This way, from 2009 this objective is mostly fulfilled as, in consequence, is the financing of its publishing by Universidad de Santiago de Compostela