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Last updated: 06/19/2026

Journal title: Pensar – Journal of Legal Sciences

Abbreviated title: Rev. Pensar

Acronym: PENSAR

ISSN: 0102-6712 (print, discontinued) | 2317-2150 (online)

Indexing and evaluation: Qualis A2 in the 2021–2024 CAPES Quadrennial Evaluation. Indexed in Latindex Catalogue 2.0 (IBICT), DOAJ, ERIH PLUS, REDIB, Diadorim, Miguilim, among others. See the full list under Indexing.

Published by: Superior Council of Editorial Affairs – University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR)

Supporting institution: University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) – Edson Queiroz Foundation

Place of publication: Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Periodicity: Uninterrupted publication since 1992. Quarterly issue model (4 issues/year) until 2024, migrated to continuous publication as of 2025, with a minimum volume of 35 articles per year and at least 30% of international authorship.

Format: Electronic (online)

Access: Open and free of charge (Open Access)

Seals and Certifications: Pensar has been recognised by Miguilim (IBICT) with the Open Science Practices Seal and the Diamond Journal Seal, certifications that attest, respectively, to the journal's alignment with international Open Science principles and to its adoption of the diamond open access model, in which neither authors pay publication fees nor readers pay for access. The journal also holds the Seal of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC Brasil).

Licence: Articles published under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 International licence.

Publication languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian and French.

Year of creation: 1992

Official website: https://ojs.unifor.br/rpen

Archiving and digital preservation: Pensar maintains preserved copies in two distributed and independent systems: the Cariniana Network (IBICT) and the PKP Preservation Network (LOCKSS). See the Digital Preservation Policy.

Access policy and editorial ethics: The journal adopts the best practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Open Science Guidelines of SciELO, and the scientific integrity principles defined by the CSE – Superior Council of Editorial Affairs of UNIFOR.

Open Science Policy: Supports transparency at all stages of the editorial process, the publication of research data in open repositories, the possibility of open peer review, the deposit of preprints, and the public sharing of reviewer reports. See the Open Science Editorial Policy.

Preprints accepted: Yes. Manuscripts may be previously deposited in preprint servers such as SciELO Preprints. See the Preprint Submission Policy.

Registration of editorial policy: The editorial and access policy of Pensar is registered in Diadorim (Directory of Editorial Policies of Brazilian Scientific Journals, maintained by IBICT) and in the Open Policy Finder (formerly Sherpa Romeo, JISC – United Kingdom), ensuring public and international consultation regarding publication, licensing and self-archiving conditions.

Interoperability: Pensar exposes its metadata through the OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol, allowing automatic harvesting by indexers, aggregators and institutional repositories. See the Interoperability page.

CNPq classification: According to the CNPq knowledge area classification, the journal's thematic coverage is in:

  • Major Area: Applied Social Sciences (6.00.00.00-7)
  • Area: Law (6.01.00.00-9)
  • Subareas: Constitutional Law, Theory of Law, Administrative Law, Political and Economic Law, Civil and Commercial Law, among others, with secondary interfaces with Sociology and Computer Science, depending on the approach of individual articles.

Thematic scope: The editorial line is structured around three permanent thematic axes — Law, Democracy and Social Justice; Constitution, Institutions and Democracy in Brazil; and Law, Technology and Society in Transformation — complemented by a cross-cutting section on International Articles. For full details, see the Mission, Focus and Scope page.

Highlights

  • The journal does not charge submission, processing or publication fees (diamond open access model). See details in the Open Science Policy.
  • Agile editorial workflow: first editorial decision in 13 days on average; final acceptance in 58 days (under two months); average time to rejection of 27 days. Metrics measured for the 2026.1 semester. See the Editorial Workflow.
  • Encouragement of the open availability of research data and materials (case law, normative bases, interviews, scripts, etc.) to reinforce scientific transparency, as set out in the Open Science Policy.
  • Average annual output: at least 35 articles per year, distributed across the three thematic axes, with at least 11 international articles as of 2025.
  • Adherent to Open Science, to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and to the IDEIA principles: Impact, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility.
  • File types made available with each national article (see details in the Open Science Policy):
    • PDF/A (Portuguese version)
    • XML (SciELO/DOAJ JATS standard)
    • Article translation (English)
    • Editorial Decision Note
    • Data Submission Form
    • Authors' video presentation

All issues are available in digital format on the UNIFOR journals portal.

e-ISSN: 2317-2150

Main Contact

Editors-in-Chief: Katherinne de Macêdo Maciel Mihaliuc / Sidney Soares Filho

E-mail: revistapensar@unifor.br

Phone: +55 (85) 3477-3805

Address:
Universidade de Fortaleza – UNIFOR
Av. Washington Soares, nº 1321
Edson Queiroz neighbourhood
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Postal code: 60.811-905