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 that have an impact on legal scholarship, such as a movement from national-oriented research towards a more European and international focus, a shift in focus from monodisciplinarity to multi- and interdisciplinarity in legal research, and a potential shift from financing legal research via lump sum budgeting towards more competition for research funding. These developments are important for the identity of Dutch academic legal research. This is the reason why we undertook a survey among Dutch legal scholars in order to ask them how they feel about the quality of research in general and publications in particular, as well as how this quality should be valued and assessed.

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评估荷兰学术法律出版物的质量：一项调查的结果

在荷兰，法律作为一门学科似乎正在从人文学科转向社会科学。这种转变对如何看待和评估法律研究的质量产生影响。在什么才算是学术出版物或专业出版物方面，法律学者似乎有不同的认识论和战略议程，法律期刊和法律出版者是否应该选择同行评审或使用度量标准来评估法律研究的质量以及目的是什么？法学院应进行研究评估。其背后是对法律学术产生影响的长期发展，例如从以国家为导向的研究向更加注重欧洲和国际的方向转变，将法律研究的重点从一门学科转向多学科和跨学科，并可能从通过一次性预算资助法律研究转向竞争更多的研究经费。这些发展对于荷兰学术法律研究的身份至关重要。这就是我们为什么要对荷兰法律学者进行调查的原因，以询问他们对一般研究，尤其是出版物的研究质量有何看法，以及应该如何评价和评估这种质量。