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Consortium for Academic Research and Ethics CARE 7

Apart from these, a list of Indian journals, especially from disciplines of Arts, Humanities, Languages,
Culture and Indian Knowledge Systems, needs to be prepared. For this purpose, the UGC-CARE
has established an Empowered Committee (EC) to create and maintain the UGC-CARE List.

OBJECTIVES
3 To promote the quality research by the faculty members and creating credible
research

3 To promote academic and research integrity as well as publication ethics.
3 To promote high quality publications in reputed journals that would help in
achieving higher global ranks and overall improvement of the quality of research
and education.

3 To Develop an approach and methodology for identification of good quality
journals.

3 To prevent publications in dubious / sub-standard journals which reflect adversely
and tarnish the image of research work and thus lead to a long term academic
damage.

3 To create and maintain a “CARE Reference List of Quality Journals” for various
academic evaluations.

CARE-Empowered Committee
The EC comprises representatives of Statutory Councils / Academies/ Government bodies in
Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts and Fine Arts, Science, Medical, Agriculture, Engineering and
the Association of Indian Universities (henceforth named as UGC-CARE members) and Regional
Universities identified by the UGC (henceforth named as UGC-CARE Universities). The UGC
has entrusted the responsibility of journal analysis to the Centre for Publication Ethics, Savitribai
Phule Pune University, Pune for creating and maintaining the UGC-CARE List.

CARE Members
Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (CARE)consists of Statutory Councils/ Academies/
Government bodies in Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts and Fine Arts, Science, Medical,
Agriculture, Engineering and the Association of Indian Universities. Members of CARE as on
January 1, 2019

1. Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
2. Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)

3. Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)
4. Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS)

5. Central Institute for Indian Languages (CIIL)
6. Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)

7. Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts (IGNCA)
8. Central Hindi Sansthan, Agra

9. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, JanakPuri, New Delhi
10. National Council for Promotion for Urdu Language, New Delhi