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"Preface" [2019] ELECD 842; in van Gestel, Rob; Lienhard, Andreas (eds), "Evaluating Academic Legal Research in Europe" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) ix

Book Title: Evaluating Academic Legal Research in Europe

Editor(s): van Gestel, Rob; Lienhard, Andreas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Preface
This book on the evaluation of legal research follows prior research projects in
both Switzerland and the Netherlands. The Swiss Rectors Conference (swis-
suniversities) was the first body to provide a strong incentive for this debate by
funding a research project to study the state of the art with respect to the eval-
uation of legal research in Switzerland, but with an eye open to developments
abroad. A research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation enabled
us to bring academics from different European countries together and conduct
surveys. The surveys of legal academics in Switzerland and the Netherlands
were among the first in Europe to collect data about how legal scholars feel
their research should be evaluated by journals, publishers, funding bodies, law
faculties, and local or national research assessment exercises. One of the strik-
ing similarities in both countries appeared to be a strong distrust of quantitative
assessment methods, such as citation counts.
The surveys in Switzerland and the Netherlands taught us that evaluation
cultures and practices in the field of law might also reveal strong differences
throughout Europe. This fuelled the idea of a book that would present the
evaluation practices applied and the debates underway in different countries.
We are very grateful to each expert who took the effort to participate in this
project. We also want to express our gratitude for all the work done by Karin
Byland, who was responsible for a large part of the project organization, but
also for contributing content ...


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