Proceedings of First International meeting of Research Journal Editors organized by Islamic World Science Citation Center at Shiraz, Iran (October 23-24th 2012)

Shiraz (Islamic Republic of Iran): Islamic World Science Citation Center in Shiraz in collaboration with ISESCO hosted the First International meeting of Research Journal Editors at ISC campus on October 23-24th 2012. It was attended by a select gathering of Research Journal Editors in different subjects from many Islamic countries including Malaysia, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, and Bangladesh besides Islamic Republic of Iran. Research Journal Editors from Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, Economics, Agriculture, Environment, library sciences etc., were invited to share their knowledge and experience and introduce them to the functioning of Islamic World Science Citation (ISC) to strengthen this research database representing the Islamic Countries. to the impact of such academic activities has on improvement of science and technology as well as research. We collect information and provide it to ISESCO which then passes it on to the whole Islamic world which is the purpose of establishing this ISC. Islamic countries, he further stated, have their own values, problems and they need one body to evaluate performance of these countries in the scientific area. This conference will provide an opportunity to the experts to have face to face discussions in the related areas. ISC is still in infancy, it needs lot of improvement. There are obstacles and challenges in enhancement of quality of research and we hope to make progress in the days to come, he added. Prof. Abbas Hoori Faculty member from Tehran Conference Proceedings doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.291.3181