Conducted a specialized training workshop targeting editors-in-chief of academic journals, which introduce the basic steps needed to meet indexing requirements that journals should have to be indexed in international journal databases such as Scopus, entitled “Important Steps for Indexing Journals in Scopus”.
As part of the Arab Journals Platform (AJP) project events and workshops, AJP conducted a series of interactive workshops for editors and researchers, where this workshop was held in the headquarter of AArU. More precisely, the AJP project was established in 2018 through the cooperation between AArU and Elsevier. In this project, journals are hosted in AJP and evaluated by the AJP team and the Strategic Journal Council of AArU under the Scopus criteria. Intensively, the journals were led to follow up on the Scopus criteria and encouraged to be indexed in Scopus.
Prof. Dr. Abdelrahim A. Hunaiti, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Association of Arab Universities (AArU) and the Director of the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Council, welcomed all the participants especially Prof. Abdelmajid Benamara, the Secretary General of the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils (FASRC), and the two instructors, Prof. Mahmoud Abdelaty, the founder of Arab Impact Factor (AIF), and Mr. Wael Mansour, the Regional Customer Consultant Research Intelligence in Elsevier. Moreover, he pointed out the importance of scientific publishing, and he also highlighted the role of AArU in helping Arab journals to be on the right track of indexing and encouraging and preparing them to be indexed in international databases.
In his part, Prof. Benamara stressed the necessity for improving and increasing scientific publishing, and also he mentioned the importance of the strategic and financial support of scientific research. He also thanked AArU for offering such workshops that serve in developing scientific research in the Arabic region.
In her part, Dr. Omayya Murad, the AJP Project Manager, presented a full presentation about the AJP project and highlighted its brilliant aims. Murad encouraged the Arab journals to participate in the AJP project to improve their journals’ quality and to follow the international criteria of indexing journals. She also highlighted the AJP Project achievements mainly the recent indexing of An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities) in Scopus. This journal has participated in the AJP project since October 2020, was evaluated and trained by the AJP team, and then indexed in Scopus in August 2022
On the other hand, Prof. Mahmoud Abdulaty, presented a series of presentations describing and introducing the criteria of several international and Arabic databases such as Scopus, Calrivate, AIF, Arabic Citation Index (ARCI), and Arab Citation & Impact Factor (Arcif).
Moreover, in his speech, Mr. Wael Mansour presented a practical example of a journal submission process in Scopus, and he explained the whole process by going through all the required steps.