Impact metrics

The metrics presented here are produced by different databases and reflect a variety of methods for measuring the citation impact of research published in a journal.

Data retrieved from the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate) profile of Revista Direito GV.

Journal Citation Reports
Journal Impact Factor (2023)Citations received in 2023 by articles published in 2021 and 2022, divided by the number of citable items published in those two years. 0.2
5-Year Impact Factor (2023)Same calculation, considering citations received in 2023 by articles published from 2018 to 2022. 0.4
Category in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) Law
Total citations received (2021)Total number of times the journal was cited by all journals included in the database in the JCR year. 138
Immediacy Index (2022)Citations received in a given year by content published in that same year. Consistently high values indicate journals that attract citations quickly. 0.1
Cited Half-Life (2022)Median age of the journal’s articles that were cited in the year. 6.2 years
Citing Half-Life (2022)Median age of the articles cited by Revista Direito GV in the JCR year. 11.2 years

Data retrieved from the Revista Direito GV pages on Scopus and the SCImago Journal Rank.

Scopus and SCImago
CiteScore (2023)Average citations received, over a four-year window, by five peer-reviewed document types (research articles, review articles, conference papers, data papers and book chapters) published in the journal in those same four years. 0.6
SJR (2023)The SCImago Journal Rank measures a journal’s influence by weighting the citations it receives according to the prestige of the citing journals, over a three-year window. 0.171
SNIP (2023)Source Normalized Impact per Paper compares the citations received with the citations expected for the journal’s subject field, allowing comparison across disciplines. 0.425
h-index (2023)A journal has an h-index of h when h of its articles have received at least h citations each. For example, an h-index of 12 means 12 articles with at least 12 citations each. 4

Data retrieved from the Google Scholar ranking of Portuguese-language publications.

Google Scholar
h5-indexThe h-index for articles published in the last five complete calendar years: h articles from that period with at least h citations each. 17
h5-medianThe median number of citations for the articles that make up the h5-index. 28
Google Scholar: Revista Direito GV profile
Citations (all time)All citations received by the journal’s articles. 15,308
Citations since 2017Citations received since 2017. 7,888
h-index (all time / since 2017)h articles with at least h citations each. 53 / 38
i10-index (all time / since 2017)Number of articles with at least 10 citations. 291 / 190

Editorial workflow metrics

Acceptance rate and average processing times. Click a year to see earlier data.

Data for 2025
Articles submitted 323
Articles sent to reviewers 93
Articles published 37
Average time from submission to desk review decision (articles published in the year) 290 days (about 10 months)
Average time from submission to final decision (acceptance, rejection or reject and resubmit) 230 days (about 8 months)
Average time from submission to publication 441 days (about 14 months)
Data for 2024
Articles submitted 252
Articles sent to reviewers 65
Articles published 40
Average time from submission to desk review decision (articles published in the year) 318 days (about 10 months)
Average time from submission to final decision (acceptance, rejection or reject and resubmit) 282 days (about 9 months)
Average time from submission to publication 517 days (about 17 months)
Data for 2023
Articles submitted 218
Articles sent to reviewers 86
Articles published 41
Average time from submission to desk review decision 7 months
Average time from submission to final decision (acceptance, rejection or reject and resubmit) 13 months
Average time from submission to publication 23 months

Readership

Journal platform (OJS)
Views and downloads (2023)Sum of abstract views (HTML) and article PDF downloads on the journal platform. 87,716

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