na-adjective
academic; scholarly; scientific
Describes something related to academic study, research, or scholarship; often used to characterize approaches, discussions, or fields.
彼の研究は非常に学術的だ。
His research is very scholarly.
この問題
This issue should be discussed from an academic perspective.
科学的 means 'scientific' in the natural-science sense, whereas 学術的 covers a broader range of academic disciplines including humanities.
Compound of 学術 (gakujutsu, 'science, learning') + 的 (-teki, '-like, -al'). The suffix 的 derives from Chinese 的 (de), used to form adjectives.