Scholarly rigour
Every submission is assessed on method, evidence and contribution — never on the standing of its author.
Islamabad · Established 2025
Advancing global research from Pakistan
Bridging Pakistani academic rigour with international standards — through six peer-reviewed journals, structured research training, and partnerships that carry our scholars into conversations far beyond the region.
Double-blind peer review
Diamond open access
SECP registered
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- Peer-reviewed journals
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- Affiliated researchers
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- Partner institutions
All double-blind reviewed
Across all volumes
In 34 countries
Universities and think tanks
2025
Year of establishment
Our mandate
A globally respected centre of research
IRIP was founded to close a specific gap: Pakistani scholarship of real quality that never reached an international readership because the infrastructure around it — editorial, methodological, institutional — was missing.
We build that infrastructure. Six peer-reviewed journals operating at international standard. Training programmes that treat method as a craft to be learned rather than a box to be ticked. And a partnership network that gives researchers here the same access to collaboration, data and audience that their counterparts elsewhere assume.
Publish
Six double-blind reviewed journals, free to authors and readers alike.
Train
Six programmes spanning method, writing and policy translation.
Connect
A partnership network reaching across four continents.
Advise
Commissioned evidence reviews for government and civil society.
How we work
Six principles that govern our work
These are not aspirations posted on a wall. They are the criteria against which every submission, application and partnership is actually judged.
Research ethics
Consent, attribution and data integrity are preconditions of publication, not afterthoughts.
International standards
Our editorial and review processes are benchmarked against established indexing criteria.
Open participation
Early-career researchers sit alongside senior scholars in every programme we run.
Disciplinary breadth
Law, economics, Islamic studies, Arabic letters and computational science are treated as neighbours, not silos.
Clarity of writing
We hold that unclear prose is usually unclear thinking, and we edit accordingly.
Peer-reviewed journals
All journals
Six journals, one standard
Every title is double-blind reviewed and diamond open access — no fee to publish, no fee to read.
IJLSS
International Journal of Law and Social Sciences
Constitutional law, human rights, criminal justice, governance and the social sciences that inform them.
- Frequency
- Bi-annual — June and December
- Language
- English
- Access
- Diamond open access
GIRJ
Global Islamic Research Journal
Qur'anic and hadith studies, Islamic jurisprudence, intellectual history and contemporary Muslim societies.
- Frequency
- Bi-annual — June and December
- Language
- English and Arabic
- Access
- Diamond open access
IJBAI
International Journal of Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence
Computational biology, genomics, machine learning in the life sciences, and the ethics of applying it.
- Frequency
- Bi-annual — May and November
- Language
- English
- Access
- Diamond open access
LISĀN
al-Majalla al-Duwaliyya Lisān al-ʿArab
Arabic language, literature and linguistics — published in Arabic, with English abstracts for every article.
- Frequency
- Bi-annual — June and December
- Language
- Arabic, with English abstracts
- Access
- Diamond open access
IJEGD
International Journal of Economic Growth and Development
Growth, trade, labour and development economics, with an emphasis on evidence from emerging economies.
- Frequency
- Bi-annual — April and October
- Language
- English
- Access
- Diamond open access
IIFCJ
International Islamic Finance Center Journal
Islamic banking, sukuk, takaful and the Shariah governance that underpins them — theory tested against practice.
- Frequency
- Bi-annual — March and September
- Language
- English and Arabic
- Access
- Diamond open access
Academic programs
All programmes
Publication support, taught properly
Structured mentorship from proposal to indexed publication — delivered in cohorts small enough that your own work gets read.
8 weeks · part-time
Research Methodology Certificate
Design a defensible study: research questions, sampling, instruments, analysis and the ethics review that ties them together.
Programme detail
10 weeks · part-time
Academic Writing & Publication
Take one manuscript from a rough draft to a submission that survives desk review, with structured feedback at every stage.
Programme detail
6 weeks · part-time
Quantitative Analysis Workshop
Applied statistics for social scientists: from descriptive work through regression, with an emphasis on interpretation over ritual.
Programme detail
Upcoming events
All events
Conferences and convenings
Where the institute's work is argued in public — and where most of our collaborations begin.
18
Mar
Registration open
In person & livestreamed
International Seerah Conference 2026
Two days on Seerah scholarship and historiography, with panels on method, sources and the teaching of early Islamic history.
18–19 March 2026 Islamabad Convention Centre
09
May
Call for papers
In person
Conference on Law, Governance & Reform
Constitutional practice, judicial reform and the institutions that carry them, with a focus on the last decade in Pakistan.
9 May 2026 IRIP Auditorium, G-11 Markaz
14
Aug
Save the date
Hybrid
South Asia Social Science Symposium
A regional convening on migration, urbanisation and social policy, hosted jointly with three partner universities.
14–15 August 2026 Islamabad & online
In their words
What researchers say
“The review I received was the most useful editorial feedback of my career — specific, unsentimental and entirely about the argument.”
“I arrived with a thesis chapter and left with a submitted article. The structure of the writing programme is what made the difference.”
“As an international partner we found IRIP unusually rigorous about ethics and data governance. That is rarer than it should be.”
Work with the institute
Bring your research to a standard the world reads
Apply to a programme, submit to a journal, or open a conversation about partnership. We reply within 24–48 hours.