About journal
Focus and Scope
Cadernos de Dereito Actual is a scientific journal of a legal nature that is intended for all researchers, professors and/or legal professionals who wish to continue their training in current issues related to law.
It is an open access journal, which means that all content is available free of charge to the user or his or her institution. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the author, as long as the work, author, journal, etc. is cited. This is in accordance with the definition of open access in the BOAI.
It was created in 2013 with the financial support of the government of the Xunta de Galicia, specifically the Directorate General of Youth and Volunteers.
Its third issue was financed and sponsored by Wolters Kluwer.
Peer Review Process
The Journal has established an objective regime for the evaluation of works, through an evaluation guideline, as an indispensable requirement for the publication of those works that correspond to studies. The papers are reviewed by two external peer reviewers, through the double-blind system, who must issue an evaluation report with their assessments within an ideal period of 15 days from the request made to them.
The Committee of External Peer Reviewers is composed of prominent national and international academics.
From the result of this evaluation, the following situations may occur:
a) If both approve: The article is published.
b) If both reject or one approves with observations and the other rejects: The article is not published.
c) If both approve with observations or one approves and the other approves with observations: The manuscript will be returned to the author to make the appropriate corrections taking into account the observations made by the external peer reviewers. The author will have a period of 10 days from the date the notification is sent to make the amendments, and then it will be verified that the corrections were made. If nothing is said within this period, it will be understood that the author has renounced the application and the process will not be continued.
d) If one approves and the other rejects: The work will be sent to a third external pair for evaluation. If the third reviewer approves, the article is published. If it is rejected, the article is automatically excluded.
The Director of the Journal is authorized to reject an article when it does not correspond to the scientific field on which the journal is published, or if its quality of content appears to be ostensibly and unquestionably inferior, after pre-review by an external academic peer, completing a pre-review form where these evaluations will be contained. This pre-review is governed by the same principle of anonymity and objectivity that governs the evaluation made by two external peers, and whose result will be informed to the author of the manuscript.
Publication Frequency
Cadernos de Dereito Actual has a semiannual periodicity. Each year will publish two numbers, one in the month of June and another in the month of December
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that providing the public with free access to research helps to increase global knowledge exchange.
