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Permalink Reply by VISHNU K. GUPTA on March 24, 2015 at 18:11

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Permalink Reply by VISHNU K. GUPTA on March 24, 2015 at 18:13

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on March 24, 2015 at 19:13

Dear Sri Yogesh Singh Dangi,

I have gone through your post.

Impact factors are assigned primarily by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia) only to those journals which are included in their Citation databases (Like SCI,  SSCI or A&HCI)

They regularly publish Journal Citation Reports and assign ranking list of journals according to their importance (productivity vis-a-vis citations per article) .

"Granthalaya Vigyan" as I understand is not included in their database. (In fact most of the Indian Journals irrespective of subjects are not covered in ISI databases) 

As such, you can not find any impact factor for the particular journal you have asked for.

Summarily, if there is no impact factor for a journal, it is mathematically presumed that its impact factor is Zero (Meaning NO IMPACT FACTOR!!

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by үσgεsн sιηgн ∂αηgι on March 24, 2015 at 19:34

ok sir i understood.

thanx.. 

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Permalink Reply by Ravindra Suryakant Kale on March 25, 2015 at 0:14

This is the Great Information. We all professionals still confused regarding the impact factor. The recent News came from UGC that they seriously thinking API should remove as a factor for Promotion.

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on March 25, 2015 at 5:17

Dear Sri Ravindra Suryakant Kale,

Thanks for your post.

However, honestly speaking, the later part of your post about the news of UGC's considerations to withdraw API for promotional factors. It has irked three questions in my mind:

1. About the reasons for Removal of API for promotion of incumbents

2. If it happens, whether there will be any different criteria for evaluation?

3. Whether the removal practices will be limited for Promotions only? (meaning, will it remain as it has been for new requirements??)

Admittedly, the API warrants certain confusions, especially, the marking systems and minimum qualifying (total) marks (200 for Dy. Librarians/Assoc. Prof.s or 300 for Librarians/Prof.s in Universities) which is more pronounced for Publication counts, participation in Seminars etc.

Since the context of our posts relates to Impact factors (IF), I intend to analyse the API in this particular context. It is known that IF of Scientific journals (belonging to STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering & Medicine) are by and large considerably higher than those belonging to Humanities &/or Social Sciences, and among Scientific disciplines, we notice a big difference in IFs among journals of Life/Biomedical Sciences than those of physical Sciences or Engineering. The IF curve of Nature has been steadily rising from 31.25 for the year 2008 (data released in June 2009) to 42.35 for the year 2013 (data released on 29th. July, 2014) for the same period, IF of Science, another Flagship science journal were 28.10 & 31.47 during these dates. Now taking the example from Economics (being supposedly most dynamic among Social Science Subjects) the periodical named Journal of Financial Economics (holding #2 position in Business Finance Ranking & #6 position in Economics Ranking,) the IF had been 5.20 (in 2008) to 5.71 (in 2013). One can very well notice the huge difference existing between IFs of the journals of two different disciplines!!

As such, in case same points are given to publications in these two sets of journals as "Publication in Peer Reviewed Foreign Journals" it will certainly create anguish among persons belonging to Science Disciplines.

Similarly, Regarding Books, a fairly large proportion of Indian Books are taught in University level in the field of Social Science & humanities while in Science subjects Indian books are miniscule in comparison.(if one visits Libraries of higher educations on Science one will find over 90% books are authored by foreign authors and published abroad while in the case of Humanities & Social Sciences, nearly 75% of the books are Indian (both authored and published). It gives impression that publishing books in the fields of Humanities & Social Sciences is comparatively easier, and never-the-less quality of Indian books (& journals as well) except a few specific publishers, are rather dubious!! (The guide to Indian Periodical Literature consists of over 335 Humanities & Social Sciences journals and with the UGc's dictum about publication in ISSN assigned journals has sky rocketed the number during last couple of years!! ) while there has been no conceit effort to ascertain their quality) It is quite natural therefore to mathematically assign marks to all such books and give undue credit to their authors!!

The participation in Conferences/Seminars is another questionable event. So also contribution of papers in such events. It has virtually became a custom in many such conferences that payment of Registration fees are prerequisite for publication of contributed papers!! And surprisingly some of the International Conferences too are not free from this practice!!

However, the API has been successful to initiate some "action" among the academicians and with certain modifications and strengthening of some of the prevailing norms, (like publication of a list of Recommended Indian & Foreign Journals and Publishers for books and monographs with a provision of time bound reviews at definite intervals) can make the system quite workable. But abolishing the system altogether especially without any replacement of evaluative criteria may not be a very wise decision as I feel.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by umesh sharma on March 26, 2015 at 21:57

yes ur right sir

 

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