About the Journal

International Journal of Digital Law

I. J. Digital Law

IJDL

 

FOCUS AND SCOPE

The International Journal of Digital Law (ISSN 2675-7087) is an electronic scientific journal with open access and published every four months, promoted by NUPED – Center for Research in Public Policies and Human Development of the Postgraduate Program in Law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná and published by Editora Fórum. The Editorial Board is composed of renowned professors linked to higher education institutions in Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Colombia, Spain, Egypt, France, The Netherlands and India. Its objective is to publish scientific articles in the area of ​​Digital Law, innovation and regulation of technologies, by authors of different nationalities.

EDITORIAL LINE

The journal's editorial line focuses on Digital Law issues involving legal and political institutions typical of the Rule of Law, linked to innovation, technology and human development through the digital revolution. The themes that best define the scope of the journal are: access to information, Big data, Blockchain, Smart cities, Smart contracts , Crowdsourcing, Cybercrimes, Digital democracy, Right to privacy, Fundamental rights, E-business, Digital economy, Digital Education, Administrative efficiency, E-Government, Ethics, Fake News, Gig economy, Digital inclusion, Infrastructure, Innovation, Artificial intelligence, Public interest, Internet, Internet of things, Jurimetry, Lawfare, New technologies, Digital profiling, Multimedia research, Electronic administrative process, Data protection, Administrative regulation, Economic regulation, Risk, Public services, Information Systems, Information Society, Government transparency, and Telecommunications.

THEMATIC COVERAGE (CNPQ CLASSIFICATION)

Major area: Applied Social Sciences 6.00.00.00-7/ Area: Law 6.01.00.00-1/ Subarea: Special Rights 6.01.04.00-7

Major area: Applied Social Sciences (6.00.00.00-7/ Area: Information Science 6.07.00.00-9/ Subarea: Information Theory 6.07.01.00-5

Major area: Exact and Earth Sciences 1.00.00.00-3/ Area: Computer Science 1.03.00.00-7/ Subarea: Computer Systems 1.03.04.00-2


BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE JOURNAL'S HISTORY

The journal was created in 2020 in an initiative taken over by Editora Fórum, which invited Prof. Emerson Gabardo to be its Editor-in-Chief. Its objective is to fill a gap in the scope of scientific journals in the area of Law and Technology. It was observed that there was no magazine in Brazil with this profile, focused on Digital Law (which ended up becoming a mandatory course in Law schools in 2021, by decision of the Federal Council of the Brazilian Lawyers' Association).

LANGUAGES

Articles written in Portuguese, Spanish or English may be submitted.

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

The Journal publishes one issue every four months:

  • Issue n. 1 (January/April)
  • Issue n. 2 (May/August)
  • Issue n. 3 (September/December)


PEER REVIEW PROCESS

1. Articles submitted to the journal are analyzed in two stages: desk review and peer review.

2. In the desk review stage, it is verified whether the article strictly complies with all Author Guidelines. In case of non-compliance with any of the guidelines, whether for reasons of form or content, the article will be rejected outright.

3. Once approved in the desk review stage, the article undergoes the double blind peer review procedure, being sent without identification of authorship to at least two reviewers holding a PhD who are members of the journal's Board of Reviewers, affiliated with national and foreign higher education institutions.

4. To be approved, the article must obtain two favorable opinions for publication, either as it is or through corrections suggested by the reviewers. If there is at least one opinion for disapproval, the article may be rejected. In case of controversy between the two reviewers, the article is submitted to a third one.

5. The criteria used in the evaluation form are as follows:

1) Is the content of the article original, that is, does it imply an addition, advancement, innovation to the theme, subject or discipline addressed?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

2) Is there research done by presenting a problem consistent with the parameters of scientific methodology?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

3) Are the title, abstract, body of the text and references consistent with each other?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

4) Does the title demonstrate clarity of the study and can it be considered attractive to the reader?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

5) Do the abstract and keywords correspond to a reliable summary of the study presented?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

6) Are the mandatory elements of the article present in the file? Does it have a title, summary, abstract, keywords, and references?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

7) Are the objectives of the research clear?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

8) Is the method used appropriate to the objectives pursued?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

9) What types of analysis were used in the methodology? Check all that apply

(more than one item may be selected).

  • theoretical analysis
  • legislative analysis
  • jurisprudential analysis
  • field research
  • case study
  • statistical analysis
  • document analysis
  • other analyses

10) Does the article adequately achieve the objectives it set out to achieve?

  • yes
  • Partially
  • no

11) Does the reasoning behind the article follow a logical sequence?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

12) Is the article written clearly and appropriately from a spelling and grammar point of view?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

13) Is the quality of the theoretical framework used compatible with the postgraduate level?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

14) Were the journal's guidelines satisfactorily followed?

  • yes
  • partially
  • no

6. The possible outcomes of the assessment process are as follows:

a) I recommend publishing the article
b) I recommend publishing the article with reservations
c) I do not recommend publishing the article

OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT

This journal provides immediate open access to its content following the principle that scientific knowledge freely available to the public supports a greater democratization of knowledge worldwide. It adheres to the DOAJ definition of open access: Open Access is the condition "where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent). This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose". (https://doaj.org/apply/guide/).

The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish in this Journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal the right of first publication with the article simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International which allows sharing the work with recognition of the authors and its initial publication in this Journal.

2. Authors are able to take on additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the paper published in this Journal (eg.: publishing in institutional repository or as a book), with a recognition of its initial publication in this Journal.

3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish their work online (eg.: in institutional repositories or on their personal website) at any point before or during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as increase the impact and the citation of the published work (see the Effect of Open Access).

Authors are free to:

  1. Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
  2. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  3. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the author follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

  1. Attribution — Authors must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . Authors may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the authors or their use.
  2. No additional restrictions — Authors may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices:

Authors do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where their use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation .

No warranties are given. The license may not give the authors all of the permissions necessary for their intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how the authors use the material.

PRESERVATION AND ARCHIVING

The preservation of all the content of the electronic domain of the IJDL is carried out by means of a backup system outsourced to a specialized company that follows the following methodology: permanence of the content in the directory 1 (online access 24h) and saving in redundancy in the directory 2 (backup of the backup).

The journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and allows them to create permanent archives of the journal for the preservation and restoration. Learn more...


LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit.

In addition to the methodology adopted by the preservation service provider and LOCKSS system, all issue numbers are deposited in full at: Zenodo, Open Science, Academia.edu, Wisdom, Mendeley and Zotero.

PLAGIARISM

The journal uses the iThenticate software to check for plagiarism in submitted articles.

ARTICLE PROCESSING AND PUBLICATION CHARGES (APCS)

Submission, processing and publication of articles are free of charges, so there are no fees to be paid by the authors.