About the journal
Journal for Digital Legal History is an open-access journal published by Ghent University in Belgium, publishing in dutch and italian and french and english. It is listed in DOAJ according to the sources read. Declared review time at DOAJ: 16 weeks. Facts are reproduced as recorded at their sources with their capture dates; PublishLens indicators are available after sign-in.
Basic facts
- Publisher
- Ghent University
- ISSN
- 2796-0226
- Country
- Belgium
- Languages
- dutch, italian, french, english
- Access
- Open access
- Articles in DOAJ
- 24
- Declared review time
- 16 weeks
- Declared peer-review model
- double_blind
- Official website
- https://openjournals.ugent.be/dlh/
Index listings
- DOAJ · 2024-03-28
- Indexing
- DOAJ
- APC
- —
- Declared review time (DOAJ)
- 16 weeks — journal-declared only (not measured)
- Activity (OpenAlex)
- Active — latest works 2025
- PublishLens list status
- Shown after sign-in
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Articles in DOAJ
24
Most recent article
9 months ago
Average review time (journal-declared via DOAJ)
16weeks
Works in OpenAlex
31
Last recorded publication year
2025
h-index
1
i10-index
0
From OpenAlex open data (CC0).
Editorial & policy11
- Last DOAJ review date
- 2024-03-28
- Added to DOAJ
- 2024-03-28
- Declared plagiarism screening
- Not declared
- Other fees beyond APC
- No
- Declared digital preservation
- CLOCKSSLOCKSS
- Observed digital preservation (Keepers registry)— snapshot 2026-10-05
- CLOCKSS
- Editorial board
- Official page ↗
- Open references deposited at Crossref
- 0%
- ORCID iDs in current deposits
- 64%
- Enrolled in Crossref Similarity Check
- ✓
- Deposits licence metadata at Crossref
- ✓
- Peer-review policy
- View policy
Identity & continuity1
- Source type
- journal
Classification2
Subjects (DOAJ)
LCC codes
Subject areas
- Historical Legal Studies and Society
- Historical Legal Studies and Society
- Law in Society and Culture
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Law in Society and Culture
- Historical Economic and Legal Thought
- Historical Economic and Legal Thought
Show all subjects (50)
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- History, Culture, and Diplomacy
- Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
- Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Open Education and E-Learning
- Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
- Online Learning and Analytics
- European Criminal Justice and Data Protection
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Australian History and Society
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Law and Political Science
- European Political History Analysis
- Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- European Political History Analysis
- Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
- Linguistics and language evolution
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies
- History, Culture, and Diplomacy
- Online Learning and Analytics
- Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
- Open Education and E-Learning
- Law and Political Science
- Australian History and Society
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- European Criminal Justice and Data Protection
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Publishing and Scholarly Communication
Keywords (DOAJ)
- digital legal history
- digital humanities
- legal studies
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