Journal profile · Social Sciences-Law
InDret
ISSN 1698-739X · Universitat Pompeu Fabra Department of Law · Spain
InDret: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 6 weeks (community reports); 55 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
InDret is published by Universitat Pompeu Fabra Department of Law. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Criminal Law and Policy, Comparative International Legal Studies and Legal principles and applications, together about 36.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law and Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
InDret es una revista jurídica centrada en el análisis del derecho. InDret promueve un enfoque interdisciplinario por medio de la combinación de métodos tradicionales en la investigación jurídica con los ofrecidos por las ciencias sociales. La revista está organizada en cuatro grandes secciones (Derecho Privado, Derecho Penal, Criminología y Derecho Público y Regulatorio). Desde su fundación en 1999, se ha convertido en una revista jurídica de referencia en España y América Latina, y proporciona un foro de discusión sobre cuestiones fundamentales en el ámbito jurídico. La revista está dirigida a investigadores, profesionales del derecho y estudiantes avanzados y está comprometida con los más altos estándares de calidad en la investigación jurídica. InDret publica artículos escritos por académicos, jueces y profesionales y solicita reseñas de libros recientes y significativos de reconocidos expertos. Todos los artículos publicados bajo la etiqueta «Análisis» se someten a un riguroso proceso de revisión por pares de doble ciego. InDret se publica trimestralmente. Cada número de la revista aparece durante la segunda quincena de los meses de enero, abril, julio y octubre. Todo el contenido de la revista está disponible en acceso abierto en el sitio web de InDret. InDret está dirigido por un grupo de académicos que forman parte del consejo editorial de la revista y cuenta con el apoyo institucional del Departamento de Derecho de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Todos los trabajos que se publican en InDret lo hacen sujetos a una licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-No Comercial 4.0 Internacional.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Law
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Criminal Law and PolicySocial Sciences14.4%
- Comparative International Legal StudiesSocial Sciences11.1%
- Legal principles and applicationsSocial Sciences11%
- European and International Contract LawSocial Sciences6.7%
- Legal processes and jurisprudenceSocial Sciences6.6%
- Legal Cases and CommentaryMedicine5.9%
- Criminal Justice and PenologySocial Sciences5%
- Administrative Law and GovernanceSocial Sciences4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | Q3 | 780/1162 | 32nd |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.28LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- h-index
- 8OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 4OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.44OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 874 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 45 | 45 | 78 |
| 2025 | 55 | 55 | 73 |
| 2024 | 51 | 51 | 49 |
| 2023 | 55 | 55 | 52 |
| 2022 | 45 | 45 | 40 |
| 2021 | 43 | 43 | 52 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 6 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted2
- artículoArtículoLength not stated
- reseñaReseñaLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Derechos de autor y acceso abierto (Open Access)
InDret adopta derechos no exclusivos de distribución, comunicación pública y de reproducción de los trabajos que publica, así como para su depósito en los repositorios y bases de datos en que se indexa la revista.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra Department of Law
- Country or region
- Spain
- Language
- English, Spanish, Catalan
- ISSN
- 1698-739X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about InDret
How long does peer review take at InDret?
Authors report an average review time of about 6 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index InDret?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, InDret is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is InDret open access, and what is the APC?
InDret is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .