A workshop titled ‘Internationalizing Local Research Journals’ was exclusively organized for research editors by IPS LEAD – the learning, excellence and development program of IPS – on November 29, 2019.
The workshop was facilitated by Professor Dr Roger van Zwanenberg, a veteran scholar of history and political economy based in London and the founder of Pluto Journals, UK, who was visiting Pakistan to participate in two international seminars on Kashmir crisis organized earlier in Islamabad and Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) by IPS.
The aim of the workshop was to bring together the research editors in Pakistan to evaluate the emerging trends of internationalization of Social Sciences Research Journals, as well as to understand and explore ways and means to address these challenges.
Addressing the workshop, Dr Zwanenberg said that the idea behind internationalizing research output is to enrich the existing research, uplift quality, enhance visibility, gain Impact Factor, attract international authorship, benefit from global best practices and disseminate the indigenous evidence-based perspective transnationally.
Dr Zwanenberg also shed light on various questions put forth by the workshop participants, imparting how to pitch the research for publication and how to evaluate it? what are the best editorial practices and publishing policies? and what are the latest trends and requirements for internationalization of a research work.
