No.F.1-2/2016 (PS) Amendments

10th January, 2017
NOTIFICATION

The UGC Regulations on Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and Other Academic Staff and Other Measures for the Maintenance of Standards of Higher Education, 2010 have been amended vide University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) (4th Amendment) Regulations, 2016 and the same have been notified in the Gazette of India on 11th July 2016.

In the aforementioned UGC (4th Amendment) Regulations, 2016, Category III of the API Tables of Academic Performance Indicator (API) for Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) and Direct Recruitment, alongwith other conditions, provides for API score for Refereed Journals, as notified and identified by the UGC. 

The Standing Committee constituted by the University Grants Commission for identifying journals in different domains of knowledge has approved the List of Journals attached along with for the purpose of Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) and Direct Recruitment of teachers and other academic staff as required under the University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) (4th Amendment) Regulations, 2016.

UGC Notice Regarding UGC approved List of Journals for the purpose of Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) and Direct Recruitment of Teachers and other academic staff as required under the UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges) can be downloaded from the following links

• List of Journals from S.No.: 1 to 9333
• List of Journals from S.No.: 9334 to 19792
• List of Journals from S.No.: 19793 to 27363
• List of Journals from S.No.: 27364 to 34682
• List of Journals from S.No.: 34683 to 38653

Recent Updates: The recent notification from UGC under the heading Journals Removed from UGC-Approved List of Journals  says that "The UGC has received complaints about inclusion of poor-quality or questionable journals from faculty, researchers, other members of academic community as well as from press and media representatives. Considering these complaints, the Standing Committee on Notification of Journals re-evaluated every journal title recommended by universities as well as those indexed by Indian Citation Index on filtering criteria defined by the Standing Committee. Based on careful scrutiny and analysis, 4305 journals are removed from the current UGC-Approved List of Journals because of poor quality / incorrect / insufficient information/ false claims."

The list of journals removed from approved list is available at https://www.ugc.ac.in/journallist/4305_Journals.pdf

In addition to these journals, 191 titles covered in Indian Citation Index are pending for evaluation by the Standing Committee on Notification of Journals. The list of 191 journals pending for evaluation is available at https://www.ugc.ac.in/journallist/191_Journals.pdf

Recent Updates (08/01/2019): The UGC approved / recognized / recommended journals in all subjects can be viewed and downloaded from the following link

https://www.ugc.ac.in/journallist/