Journal of Ethics and Legal Technologies

Journal of Ethics and Legal Technologies is published by Padova University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Digitalization, Law, and Regulation, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI and Artificial Intelligence in Law, 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)

Computer science, robotics and artificial intelligence are the forms of technology that have determined the most revolutionary social transformations in the contemporary era. The exponential acceleration of technological innovations seems now to have surpassed the possibility of science to reflect or to elaborate a full-fledged theory about it. Indeed, the crisis of Western science has shown that, perhaps, science itself – conceived as a free, disinterested form of knowledge without immediate practical implications - is not an irreversible conquest, but a singular historical event, limited in time and space, while the technological approach to knowledge may be the original form of apprehension of reality and a structural part of man's essence. On this theoretical basis, and within a particular declination of philosophy of law, the journal publishes contributions and reflections about ethical and legal issues of technological challenge in the third millennium, with particular attention to legal informatics, information technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence. The authors who present their works here are called to reflect critically and in a free and cross- disciplinary way about philosophical, logical, ethical and cultural aspects of technolaw, that is the legal experience in the technological dimension of contemporary man. JELT adopts a double blind peer review process for acceptance. The Journal meets ANVUR’s general and disciplinary requirements for inclusion among Class A journals in Area 12.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Editor-in-chief Brando FioravanziPublisher website

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Database indexing

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Impact

h-index

1OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.09OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

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Average review time (community reports)

about 8 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 8 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Padova University Press

Country or region

Italy

Language

English, Spanish, Italian

ISSN

2612-4920

Latest issue on the website

Volume 7, Issue 2 (November 2025)

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