Actualidad Juridica Ambiental

Actualidad Juridica Ambiental is published by Centro Internacional de Estudios de Derecho Ambiental and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Human Rights and Immigration, Administrative Law and Governance and Finance, Taxation, and Governance, together about 49.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations and Law. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Actualidad Jurídica Ambiental (www.actualidadjuridicaambiental.com) is a publication specialised in environmental law whose aim is to contribute to research, study, dissemination and the effective implementation of this area of law. It was launched in May 2008 within the Observatorio del Litoral Research Group at the University of A Coruña. Since April 2011, the Centro Internacional de Estudios de Derecho Ambiental (CIEDA-CIEMAT), part of the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), a public research organisation under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain, has been responsible for the direction and management of the publication, ensuring continuity of its editorial line. AJA is published continuously online, with new content released from Monday to Friday, and publishes a monthly PDF compilation containing the publications released during the preceding month. The journal has also published an Annual Yearbook since 2011. The journal combines a scholarly research section consisting of doctrinal articles subject to external peer review with other specialised sections devoted to environmental legal information and analysis. This structure enables AJA to contribute both to scientific research and to the dissemination of reliable, up-to-date and systematically organised information on environmental law. The Articles section constitutes the journal’s principal scholarly research section. It publishes original and unpublished legal research addressing legislation, case law and other legal issues relating to environmental protection. Doctrinal articles are subject to external double-blind peer review, in accordance with the scientific and editorial standards established in the journal’s publication guidelines. The Comments section is a separate analytical section devoted primarily to the study of judgments, legislation, legislative reforms, administrative decisions and other developments in environmental law. Its purpose and evaluation procedure are distinct from those applicable to doctrinal articles. AJA also includes the sections Legislation in Focus, Case Law in Focus, Bibliographical References and Current Affairs, which provide systematic and up-to-date information on significant developments in environmental law at international, European, national and regional levels. The journal has a scientific and international vocation. It accepts external contributions and publishes research concerning Sp

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Research area (LetPub): LAW

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Spain 1, Belgium 1, Portugal 1, Argentina 1, Chile 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.21LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.81LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

11OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

14OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.41OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

50%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

57.95%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

103LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 6 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 6 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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Publisher

Centro Internacional de Estudios de Derecho Ambiental

Country or region

Spain

Language

English, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician

ISSN

1989-5666

Official links

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