Internationalizing Local Research Journals

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.