Evaluating the Quality of Dutch Academic Legal Publications: Results from a Survey

In the Netherlands, law as an academic discipline seems to be moving from the humanities towards the social sciences. This transition has an impact on how the quality of legal research is perceived and assessed. Legal scholars appear to have different epistemic and strategic agendas with regard to what counts as an academic or professional publication, whether law journals and legal publishers should opt for peer review or the use of metrics to evaluate the quality of legal research, and what the purpose of research evaluation by law schools should be. Behind this are long-term developments th... Mehr ...