  Defining and measuring internationality as a function of influence diffusion
of scientific journals is an open problem. There exists no metric to rank
journals based on the extent or scale of internationality. Measuring
internationality is qualitative, vague, open to interpretation and is limited
by vested interests. With the tremendous increase in the number of journals in
various fields and the unflinching desire of academics across the globe to
publish in "international" journals, it has become an absolute necessity to
evaluate, rank and categorize journals based on internationality. Authors, in
the current work have defined internationality as a measure of influence that
transcends across geographic boundaries. There are concerns raised by the
authors about unethical practices reflected in the process of journal
publication whereby scholarly influence of a select few are artificially
boosted, primarily by resorting to editorial maneuvres. To counter the impact
of such tactics, authors have come up with a new method that defines and
measures internationality by eliminating such local effects when computing the
influence of journals. A new metric, Non-Local Influence Quotient(NLIQ) is
proposed as one such parameter for internationality computation along with
another novel metric, Other-Citation Quotient as the complement of the ratio of
self-citation and total citation. In addition, SNIP and International
Collaboration Ratio are used as two other parameters.
