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Group A : Research journals from all disciplines indexed in Scopus (Source list) or Web of Science
(Arts and Humanities Citation Index Source Publication, Science Citation Index
Expanded Source Publication, Social Science Citation Index Source Publication). No
further analysis of these journals shall be done by UGC Cell and all such journals shall
be included in the UGC-CARE List.

Group B : Journals from the previous “UGC-Approved List” which are qualified as per the
analysis protocols.

Group C : Journals from all disciplines recommended by UGC-CARE Council members, which
are qualified as per the analysis protocols.
Group D : Journals from all disciplines and languages submitted by UGC-CARE Universities,
which are qualified as per the analysis protocols.

CARE PROTOCOL (PART – I)

Selection and Addition of Journal Title/s
Every title submitted by UGC-CARE Council members and UGC-CARE Universities, will be
analyzed by the UGC Cell at SPPU, as per the protocols for journal analysis approved by the
Empowered Committee of UGC-CARE,

A stringent methodology would be used for analysing new titles. It consists of three parts:

3 UGC-CARE Protocol Part I: Basic information
3 UGC-CARE Protocol Part II: Primary Criteria

3 UGC-CARE Protocol Part III: Secondary Criteria
Part I of the analysis protocol is designed to obtain basic information about the journal (given
below) from universities/ colleges/ individuals or publishers :

1. Journal title
2. Journal broad discipline and focus subject
3. Name of publisher
4. Country of origin and registered address
5. Journal language/s

6. Publishing frequency
7. Editor name, editorial office address, phone, email and website
8. Current status (date of last publication) (print/ online/ both)
9. ISSN/ eISSN

10. Other registrations/ memberships such as RNI/ COPE/ UGC-CARE
Part II and III of the protocol are to be used for internal analysis and assessment purpose, which
includes due diligence, verification process and critical appraisal using sequential algorithmic
elimination process and weightage-based metrics on a scale of 10.

The objective assessment of the quality of any journal as per Part II and III of the protocol is
based on verification of information regarding its history, consistency, peer recognition, market
reputation, academic credentials of the editors, peer review process, indexing, citations, charges/
fees and related financial matters, etc. The information required for journal analysis as per Part II