NQHR June 2018
| Author | Leonie Huijbers,Antoine Buyse |
| DOI | 10.1177/0924051918772898 |
| Date | 01 June 2018 |
| Published date | 01 June 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editorial
NQHR June 2018
Data and statistics become increasingly important in legal scholarship. Quantitative legal empirical
research and quantitative empirical legal research are on the rise. These kinds of research focus on
the idea that reality can, at least to a certain extent, be measured in numbers. In that light, statistics
might not only strengthen legal argumentation or provide new insights for international human
rights research, but they can also provide an indication of accomplishment. While we should be
cautious to attribute too much significance to numbers as such, they help us to gain some insights
into our readership and its preferences. The NQHR is therefore proud to share some statistics of its
own.
In 2017, the four NQHR issues included one published lecture, four columns, and eleven
articles. In the period between March and December 2017,
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the NQHR had a number of 11,922
full-text downloads. Whilst the NQHR is proud of all contributions to the journal, some of the 2017
contributions deserve special mention as they reached a particularly large readership. In particular,
the article of Janneke Gerards and Lize Glas on ‘Access to Justice in the European Convention on
Human Rights System’, published in April 2017, had been downloaded over 1,600 times by the end
of March 2018. At that same date, just four months after its publication, the column of Tarlach
McGonagle on ‘‘‘Fake New’’: False Fears or Real Concerns’ reached nearly 3,000 downloads. In
addition to these statistics, in the context of the NQHR’s readership, and as a human rights journal,
we are particularly happy that our new publisher is dedicated to affordable or even free access to
academic publications for institutions in developing countries, including as a partner in
Research4Life.
Understandably, the NQHR is delighted with these numbers and developments, and aims to
maintain these positive results. And, whereas statistics might provide some insight in the perfor-
mance of the NQHR, our key objective remains to give scholars a platform to publish as well as to
read excellent research on international human rights law. Indeed, also in 2018 and the years to
come, the NQHR intends to present its readership with new in-depth articles, inspiring columns
and thought-provoking lectures.
Antoine Buyse, Editor-in-Chief
Leonie Huijbers, Managing Editor
1. Due to the switch from our former publisher Intersentia to SAGE in 2017, the first two months are not accounted for.
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2018, Vol. 36(2) 85
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