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Will the new Recognition and Rewards system of academics have a negative effect on the international position of Dutch science? That is what a majority of the House of Representatives - led by the VVD (liberal party) - wanted to know from the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (AWTI). In a letter to the House in December, it announced that it saw no indication of this and instead felt this might be an opportunity for the Netherlands to be an international frontrunner on this issue.

The extensive letter also addressed the shortcomings of peer review, the "disadvantages of the Journal Impact Factor and the h-index" and the "problematic use" of rankings. A joint development of a pluralistic palette of methods and indicators is needed, according to the AWTI, to better map the quality of science: exactly what the international movement towards recognition and rewards aims to achieve.