Journal profile · Social Sciences-Law

Italian Review of Legal History

ISSN 2464-8914 · Università degli Studi di Milano · Italy

Italian Review of Legal History: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 10 weeks (community reports); 20 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartileQ4Law · rank 1027/1162 · 11th percentile
Review timeabout 10 weeksCommunity average
APCNo APCDiamond open access (no APC)
Acceptance—No reports yet
Articles per year202025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Italian Review of Legal History is published by Università degli Studi di Milano. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Historical Legal Studies and Society, Medieval and Early Modern Justice and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, together about 48.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

La rivista on line Italian Review of Legal History si propone di costituire, per tutti i colleghi e studiosi italiani e stranieri uno strumento di intensificazione del dibattito scientifico a livello internazionale sui grandi temi della storia giuridica italiana, europea e mondiale. La scelta di pubblicare gli articoli sia in lingua madre sia preferibilmente in inglese nasce dal desiderio di contribuire alla circolazione degli studi storico – giuridici in un dialogo tra ricercatori di diversi paesi. Si è adottato un codice di condotta e un sistema di peer review coerente con le migliori prassi, secondo i criteri di rilevanza delle questioni oggetto di ricerca, di originalità dell’apporto scientifico, di innovatività nella scelta dei temi di indagine e di rigore metodologico. L’arco temporale si estende dall’alto medioevo alla contemporaneità e l’evoluzione del diritto, generale e/o particolare, è analizzata in tutte le sue articolazioni con attenzione all’intrinseca storicità del diritto e alla sua contestualizzazione con riguardo ai profili dei poteri pubblici, della cultura, della società e dell’economia. Continuità e discontinuità costituiscono le caratteristiche essenziali della storia giuridica. In questa fase di profonde trasformazioni e di ricerca di nuove vie del diritto per una società più giusta, il confronto tra cultori del diritto positivo e del diritto storico può offrire una chiave di interpretazione dell’oggi e il punto di avvio per una ricostruzione di regole e principii. Appare nondimeno fondamentale il continuo colloquio anche con tutte le discipline storiche nel quadro della circolazione tra i saperi e della necessità di realizzare una rete tra i vari apporti specialistici, connotati da metodologie, linguaggi e fonti almeno in parte differenti. Nell’attuale momento storico irto di sfide per tutti coloro che vivono l’Università e la Ricerca come parte del loro impegno civile, la rivista si pone come sede di riflessione in senso diacronico sulle dinamiche giuridiche e istituzionali. L’I.R.L.H. sarà aperta alla discussione sui temi dell’esperienza giuridica suggeriti dal comitato scientifico o da colleghi italiani e stranieri, da analizzare, in prospettiva storica e nel confronto con i giuristi positivi, sia tramite contributi di singoli studiosi, sia con interviste a specialisti, sia nella forma del forum.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Law

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Historical Legal Studies and SocietySocial Sciences25.1%
  2. Medieval and Early Modern JusticeSocial Sciences18.4%
  3. Renaissance and Early Modern StudiesArts and Humanities5%
  4. Italian Fascism and Post-war SocietySocial Sciences4.2%
  5. Criminal Law and PolicySocial Sciences4.2%
  6. War, Law, and JusticeSocial Sciences3.8%
  7. Historical Economic and Legal ThoughtSocial Sciences2.9%
  8. Judicial and Constitutional StudiesSocial Sciences2.5%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

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)

SubjectQuartileRankPercentile
LawQ41027/116211th

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

ERIH PLUSPublisher website

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

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
0.2LetPub ·
SJR 2026-06
0.11LetPub ·
SNIP 2026-06
0.22LetPub ·
h-index
3OpenAlex ·
i10-index
0OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
0.02OpenAlex ·
Share of gold OA articles
0%LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 126 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
2026001
202520206
202438384
202318186
202225259
202124241

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 10 weeksLetPub ·
Submission to publication (journal-reported)
about 10 weeksDOAJ ·
Peer review
Unspecified 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.

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
DOAJNo APCNoCC BY-SA
LetPubNo APCNo—

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)

Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review
License & copyright Licenza Creative Commons

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license Model summary

La rivista è distribuita con licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione - Condividi allo stesso modo.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Open access Open Access Policy

Per promuovere la diffusione della conoscenza e il dibattito scientifico, la Italian Review of Legal History fornisce accesso aperto e immediato ai propri articoli. La pubblicazione sulla Italian Review of legal History non comporta costi per gli autori.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Peer review

Retraction policy following COPE guidelines Model summary

In caso di errori, comportamenti scorretti o cattiva condotta scientifica la Direzione adotterà le misure appropriate, seguendo le raccomandazioni e le linee guida di COPE (https://publicationethics.org/retraction-guidelines ) .

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
Università degli Studi di Milano
Country or region
Italy
Language
English, French, Italian
ISSN
2464-8914
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Italian Review of Legal History

How long does peer review take at Italian Review of Legal History?

Authors report an average review time of about 10 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 Italian Review of Legal History?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Italian Review of Legal History is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.

Is Italian Review of Legal History open access, and what is the APC?

Italian Review of Legal History 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 2026-08-30). Last updated: .