Journal profile
Revista de Direito Penal Processo Penal e Constituicao
ISSN 2526-0200 · Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI) · Brazil
Revista de Direito Penal Processo Penal e Constituicao: fully open access; no APC; review about 16 weeks (community reports); 4 articles in 2025.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2024 (Volume 10, Issue 2): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Revista de Direito Penal Processo Penal e Constituicao is published by Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Criminal Law and Policy, Brazilian Legal Issues and Criminal Justice and Penology, together about 71.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Revista de Direito Penal, Processo Penal e Constituição is a biannual open-access publication edited by the National Council for Research and Graduate Studies in Law (CONPEDI). The journal publishes original doctrinal articles, Brazilian and foreign, by invited authors with significant expertise in the subject, in both the national and the international sphere.Submitted articles (in Portuguese, Spanish and English) necessarily go through the Double Blind Review system, in which each article is evaluated by Doctors of Law who do not know the authors, just as the authors do not know their reviewers. Evaluation is carried out by at least two ad hoc referees. If the scores differ by more than three points (on a scale from zero to ten), a third evaluation takes place. It should be stressed that the reviewers are professors in Master's and Doctoral programs in Law and were (and will continue to be) appointed by the coordinators of the stricto sensu graduate programs in Law throughout Brazil, recognized by CAPES/MEC.To ensure the longevity of the publications and make them easier to identify in the electronic environment, all accepted articles are registered in the Digital Object Identifier – DOI system. The issues are also announced on the Index Law Journals Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012884325538>.Editorial management is automated through a system conceived by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), known as Open Journal Systems (OJS). The OJS platform adopted by this journal is known in Brazil as Sistema Eletrônico de Editoração de Revistas (SEER), translated and customized by the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology – IBICT.This journal is currently indexed in the following databases: Latindex (under evaluation); OpenAire; PKP INDEX; Ebsco Host; ErihPlus (under evaluation); Gale Cengage Learning; Redib; Livre; Dialnet (under evaluation) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, under evaluation). These international indexers aim to promote the dissemination and visibility of the articles published by the journal.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Criminal Law and PolicySocial Sciences33%
- Brazilian Legal IssuesSocial Sciences27.5%
- Criminal Justice and PenologySocial Sciences11.4%
- Legal processes and jurisprudenceSocial Sciences8%
- Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studiesSocial Sciences2.5%
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and GovernanceSocial Sciences2.2%
- Law, Economics, and Judicial SystemsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance1.6%
- Criminal Justice and Corrections AnalysisSocial Sciences1.3%
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.
Database indexing
Indexed in: no record yet.
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
DOAJPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, Latindex, Latindex (under evaluation), OpenAire, PKP INDEX, Ebsco Host, ErihPlus (under evaluation), Gale Cengage Learning, Redib, Livre, Dialnet (under evaluation)
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
- h-index
- 2OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 160 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| 2024 | 11 | 11 | 10 |
| 2023 | 10 | 10 | 6 |
| 2022 | 13 | 13 | 5 |
| 2021 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
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 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 100–250 words
- Keywords
- 3–5
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted1
- artigosArtigosLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Peer review
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Copyright/License: authors retain copyright, license CC BY-NC 4.0 Model summary
• O(s) autor(es) autoriza(m) a publicação do artigo na revista;• O(s) autor(es) garante(m) que a contribuição é original e inédita e que não está em processo de avaliação em outra(s) revista(s);• A revista não se responsabiliza pelas opiniões, ideias e conceitos emitidos nos textos, por serem de inteira responsabilidade de seu(s) autor(es);• É reservado aos editores o direito de proceder ajustes t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double Blind Review system, in which each article is evaluated by Doctors of Law who do not know the authors, just as the authors do not know their reviewers. Model summary
Submitted articles (in Portuguese, Spanish and English) necessarily go through the Double Blind Review system, in which each article is evaluated by Doctors of Law who do not know the authors, just as the authors do not know their reviewers.
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
- Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI)
- Country or region
- Brazil
- Language
- Portuguese
- ISSN
- 2526-0200
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 10, Issue 2 (2024)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Revista de Direito Penal Processo Penal e Constituicao
How long does peer review take at Revista de Direito Penal Processo Penal e Constituicao?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Revista de Direito Penal Processo Penal e Constituicao?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 100–250 words; Keywords: 3–5; Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Revista de Direito Penal Processo Penal e Constituicao?
The journal's website lists DOAJ; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Revista de Direito Penal Processo Penal e Constituicao open access, and what is the APC?
Revista de Direito Penal Processo Penal e Constituicao is a fully open-access journal. It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .