Abstract
It is extremely painful not to accept a couple of manuscripts from researchers for further processing almost daily because of increased submissions and our financial as well as human resource constraints. At present we get almost about two hundred fifty submissions every month not only from Pakistan but from overseas from many countries in South East Asia and Asia-Pacific in particular while we have the facilities to process, manage and publish just about three hundred fifty to four hundred manuscripts every year. It leads to annoyance with authors whose papers are not accepted despite the fact that some of them are of very good quality since we already have many manuscripts in that speciality pending and under process. This is a real dilemma for the Editor. Editor colleagues of the other two Impact Factor medical journals published from Pakistan are faced with a similar situation. While on one hand the authorities claim to promote research culture but at the same time the authors find it extremely difficult to get their studies published in good standard peer reviewed biomedical journals in Pakistan as they are too few just three. IF journals in Pakistan is their first preference to meet requirements of the regulatory bodies like Higher Education Commission which says that all PhD scholars and medical university faculty members should publish their work in Impact Factor Journals. Publication in IF journals overseas is very expensive which many authors cannot afford. Hence, the only way forward is to relax the rules and regulations by the regulatory bodies like HEC or include few more good quality medical journals in its list which even do not enjoy an Impact Factor at present but have applied, are included in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) and are hopeful of getting an IF in the coming years.
Shaukat Ali Jawaid. (2021) Problems faced by Researchers and pressure on Impact Factor Journal Editors, Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, Volume-37, Issue-3.
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