Journal profile
Rivista di Diritto Romano
ISSN 2039-9677 · eISSN 1720-3694 · LED Edizioni Universitarie · Italy
Rivista di Diritto Romano: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 15 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Rivista di Diritto Romano is published by LED Edizioni Universitarie. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Classical Studies and Legal History, Classical Antiquity Studies and Legal principles and applications, together about 70.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Rivista di diritto romano. Periodico di storia del diritto romano, di diritti antichi e della tradizione romanistica medioevale e moderna, fondata da Ferdinando Zuccotti nel 2001, può vantarsi di essere stata la prima rivista in discipline romanistiche a essere realizzata su supporto informatico e a essere diffusa sul web, nonché tra le prime in assoluto tra le riviste scientifiche italiane a offrire l’accesso libero a quanto pubblicato.La Rivista esce con cadenza annuale in forma anche cartacea e accoglie, con il filtro della pratica di revisione tra pari (peer review), contributi in diritto romano e in altri diritti del mondo antico, ma anche saggi che riguardino il diritto romano nel più vasto quadro delle vicende da esso conosciute nella storia del diritto europeo ed extraeuropeo.Il passaggio, nell'anno 2023, alla piattaforma Open Journal Systems (OJS) arricchisce la Rivista con gli strumenti più aggiornati per migliorarne l’indicizzazione e l’internazionalizzazione.Per la Presentazione del 2001 e la Presentazione della nuova serie avviata nel 2015 si rinvia a questo link). Rivista di diritto romano. Periodico di storia del diritto romano, di diritti antichi e della tradizione romanistica medioevale e moderna, founded by Ferdinando Zuccotti in 2001, can boast of being the first journal in the Roman law discipline to be produced on IT support and to be disseminated on the web as well as among the first ever among Italian scientific journals to offer free open access to what is published.The journal is also published annually in printed form and welcomes, through the filter of peer review, contributions in Roman law and other laws in the antiquity, as well as essays on Roman law in the broader framework of the events it has witnessed in the history of European and extra European law.The transition, in the year 2023, to the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform enriches the Journal with the most up-to-date tools to increase its indexing and internationalization.For the 2001 Presentation and the Presentation of the new series launched in 2015 please refer to this link).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Iole FargnoliPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Classical Studies and Legal HistoryArts and Humanities28.9%
- Classical Antiquity StudiesSocial Sciences27.7%
- Legal principles and applicationsSocial Sciences13.8%
- Historical Legal Studies and SocietySocial Sciences5.6%
- Medieval and Early Modern JusticeSocial Sciences5.3%
- Historical and Religious Studies of RomeArts and Humanities4.8%
- Classical Studies and PhilologyArts and Humanities1.9%
- Family and Matrimonial LawSocial Sciences1.7%
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
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: Portico, ANVUR
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
- 5OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 4OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.08OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 447 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20 | 20 | 1 |
| 2025 | 15 | 15 | 3 |
| 2024 | 28 | 28 | 19 |
| 2023 | 115 | 115 | 28 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2021 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
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 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 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-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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
- articoliArticoliLength not stated
- varieVarieLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Self-archiving
- Publication ethics Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
La Rivista di Diritto Romano è una rivista scientifica con cadenza annuale, i cui articoli sono sottoposti in forma anonima al giudizio di specialisti dell’argomento con revisione tra pari a doppio cieco (double-blind peer review). Il suo codice etico segue le linee guida per le pubblicazioni elaborato da COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Tutte le parti coinvolte (direttore, com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND) license Model summary
The works included in the Journal are licensed under a Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” (CC BY-NC-ND) license.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
I file pubblicati nella Rivista di diritto romano sono liberamente accessibili: non si richiede registrazione o abbonamento per leggere, stampare, scaricare e condividere il testo completo degli articoli.I testi sono resi disponibili con licenza Creative Commons “Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Non opere derivate 4.0 Internazionale (CC BY-NC-ND)”.La Rivista offre accesso aperto immediato ai suoi …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Peer review policy Model summary
Rivista di diritto romano è una rivista open access sottoposta a peer-review.I contributi inviati alla Rivista devono essere originali e non in corso di contemporanea valutazione per essere pubblicati altrove.La Direzione della rivista opera una prima revisione per determinare se le proposte di pubblicazione hanno i requisiti indispensabili per poter essere ammesse alla peer-review. Tutte le propo…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Archiving and Self-Archiving
Gli autori possono auto-archiviare la bozza finale post-refereeing e i file finali pubblicati nei loro archivi istituzionali.Si veda Copyright Notice - Per gli Autori.Led on Line collabora con www.portico.org per garantire una sicura e permanente conservazione delle riviste. Authors may self-archive the final draft post-refereeing and the final published files in their institutional repositories.S…
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
- LED Edizioni Universitarie
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- German, Italian, French, Spanish, English
- ISSN
- 2039-9677
- Electronic ISSN
- 1720-3694
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- 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 Rivista di Diritto Romano
How long does peer review take at Rivista di Diritto Romano?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 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 Rivista di Diritto Romano?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Rivista di Diritto Romano is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Rivista di Diritto Romano open access, and what is the APC?
Rivista di Diritto Romano 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: .