Editors in provinces or different big cities like Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, etc. should meet regularly, both at social and academic gatherings.

They should exchange copies of their journals and get feedback and review. They should also act as reviewers for each other’s journals, thus helping overcome the shortage of good reviewers.

In this age of development when the world is shrinking into a global village each journal should have its own website and the editors should communicate with other using fax, internet and on-line facilities to the maximum.

This will not only promote co-operation and friendship but lead to have the development of editor’s kinship and editors’ fraternity. These groups or forums can later become branches or chapters of a national organization.

Co-operation between Editors at National level: As mentioned editors co-operation at local level can proceed to the development of a national organization, the local groups in turn becoming its branches or chapters.

Regular national meetings, seminars, symposia, workshops and on-line conferences can lead to the promotion and solidifying of co-operation at the national level.

Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, with the aim of streamlining medical journals and blacklisting fake and sub-standard journals, called a couple of meeting of the editors and started some movement in this direction by forming the Pakistan Association of Medical and Dental Editors (PAMDE).

Id did not work as it was a half hearted approach and had the usual tits, being bureaucratic and state sponsored.

Pakistan medical journalists Association (PMJA) can become the platform of a national organization, as it is around for some time with neutral people and policies, and quite a few editors as its members.

Co-operation between Editors at International level: Once the editors gather on a national platform, life can be much easier as one can get involved at regional level with organizations like Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (SAARC), as well as international level with organizations like World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Pubmed, etc.

Holding regular conferences, seminars and workshops at these levels will definitely help elevate the standards of the local editors and journals.

Who, especially its EMRO section, can play very important part in the development of this strategy, as this will lead to a fruitful symbiosis; the elevation of the medical editors and journals will have an important, positive and direct impact on the national health of the countries, and hence the world at large.

It is not difficult to visualize that co-operation between Editors is need of times. However, looking at the status of the current co-operation amongst editors in Pakistan, it is worth commenting that the topic of the paper should be How to Create Co-operation between editors, rather than How to Improve Co-operation between Editors?

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