Periodicity and Continuous Flow

PIDCC follows continuous publication within a single annual volume. Each year corresponds to one volume, opened in January and closed in December, and articles are published individually, as soon as the editorial process is complete — without waiting for an issue to be assembled.

Why an annual volume rather than fixed issues. Under continuous publication, dividing the year into issues only creates artificial delay: an article accepted in May would wait for the next issue to be built. With a single volume, it is published the day it is ready, with its own DOI and pagination, and becomes part of the current year's volume.

How it works

  • One volume per year

    Opened on 1 January, closed on 31 December. Volume numbering follows the journal's historical sequence.

  • Published on acceptance

    Once copy-editing is complete, the work goes online immediately, with a DOI, full metadata and its own publication date.

  • Individual dates

    Each article carries its own publication date — the real date it became available, and the one that counts for citation and priority.

  • A living table of contents

    The current volume grows through the year. Readers always see what has been published, never an issue in preparation.

Citation

References to continuously published articles do not require an issue number. Volume, year, pagination (or article identifier) and DOI suffice:

SURNAME, Name. Article title. PIDCC — Journal of Intellectual Property, Contemporary Law and Constitution, v. 15, 2026. DOI: 10.16928/…

Earlier volumes

Volumes published up to 2025 keep the issue structure under which they were actually released. Nothing is reorganised retroactively: each issue's record stands as it was published.