About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Italian Labour Law e-Journal is an open-access peer-reviewed Journal aiming at the advancement of comparative studies on current labour law topics.

The journal is published in English on a biannual basis. Each issue includes a main section dedicated to a specific theme, and a miscellaneous reserved to spontaneous submissions.

Italian Labour Law e-Journal is a scientific journal recognized by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) for disciplinary area 12 (Law Studies, including Labour Law). It has also achieved the “Class A” rating for all the recruitment fields of the same area.

Peer Review Process

The peer review process is aimed to verify that each contribution for which publication is requested, corresponds to the Journal’s qualitative parameters of originality, methodological correctness and scientific validity; that it complies with the relevant ethical standards and that it is of interest for the Journal’s objectives.

Each contribution proposed for publication must satisfy the requirements of scientific interest, originality, methodological correctness and scientific validity adopted by the Journal. The contribution must also comply with the Code of Conduct adopted by the Journal.

For each proposed contribution the Editorial Team will carry out a preliminary evaluation in order to verify the originality of the work, its respect of the Journal’s editorial guidelines and its interest with regard to the Journal’s objectives.

For each contribution that has passed the preliminary evaluation by the Editorial Team, the Editor-in-chief will identify two referees. The choice of the referees shall be based on their scientific competence and on the absence of situations of incompatibility or conflict of interest with respect to the Author(s)’ contribution subject to peer review.

The referee to whom the contribution is submitted must confirm his/her availability to fulfill the proposed task no later than five days after receiving the invitation.

The peer review follows a “double blind” process which guarantees anonymity of the Author(s) in respect to the Referees and of the Referees in respect to the Author(s).

The referee is required to maintain confidentiality with respect to the contributions submitted to his examination. To guarantee an impartial judgment, the referee should promptly report any personal situations of conflict of interest or incompatibility.

The peer review is carried out by filling in a questionnaire, in which the referee expresses a judgment with respect to the formal as well as the substantive aspects of the contribution subject to the procedure.

The Referee commits him/herself to complete the peer review and to send the completed questionnaire to the Editorial Team within twenty days following the receipt of the peer review proposal.

As required by the Code of Conduct, the Referee should report the existence of any case of plagiarism or the lack of minimum requirements of interest, originality, methodological correctness and scientific validity which may have not been recognized by the Editorial Team during the preliminary screening.

The peer review can lead to the following outcomes:

  • Accept Submission (with no revisions);
  • Revisions Required: acceptance with minor revisions;
  • Resubmit for Review: major revisions are required before evaluating the acceptance of the manuscript;
  • Decline Submission.

In case the opinions expressed by two Referees are discordant, the final decision should be taken by the Editor-in-chief.

In the event that no revisions are required, the contribution will be published in the Journal.

In case of acceptance with minimal revisions, the adequacy of the changes made by the Author(s) will be evaluated by the Editorial Team.

In case of acceptance with significant revisions, the suitability of the corrections made by the Author(s) will be evaluated by the Referees, who have previously carried out the peer review, on condition he/she has agreed to be available for this.

In case of rejection, the contribution will not be published in the Journal.

The Author(s) has the right to contact the Editorial Team to request clarification concerning the Referees’ comments. In any case the Editorial Team’s decisions remain final.

Publication Frequency

The Journal publishes two issues per year.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

This journal adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:

Journal History

Founded in 1999 by prof. Franco Carinci, Italian Labour Law e-Journal (ISSN 1561-8048) was the first electronic journal on labour law in Italy. Under Carinci direction the journal published with the following frequency:

1999–2001: from Vol.1 to Vol.3, six issues;
2002: Vol.4, five issues;
2003–2004: Vol.5 and Vol.6, quaterly;
2005–2009: from Vol.7 to Vol.11, annually.

The journal suspended its publications in 2009. Past issues are still available in the former website: http://www.dirittodellavoro.it/public/current/ejournal/index.htm.

In 2019 the Journal resumed publications under the direction of Emanuele Menegatti, with a semi-annual frequency.

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Dipartimento di Sociologia e Diritto dell'Economia – SDE
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Strada Maggiore, 45
40125 - Bologna, Italy

Partnership

Fondazione Marco Biagi

Largo Marco Biagi 10
(già viale Storchi 2)
41121 - Modena (MO), Italy