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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

CATEGORY-III: RESEARCH AND RELATED CONTRIBUTIONS

Sl. APIs Engineering/Agriculture/ Faculties of Max. points for University and
No. Veterinary Science/ LanguagesArts/ college teacher position
Sciences/Medical Sciences Humanities/ Social
Sciences/Library/ API Score Selfappraisal Verified
Physical education/ allotted Score API Score
Manage ment
III(a) Research Refereed Journals with Refereed Journals which 20 /
Publicatio n impact factor 1.0 and below are indexed publications publication
(Journals) 2.0 with Impact factor less
than one
Refereed Journals with impact Refereed Journals with 30 /
factor 2.1 and below 5.0 impact factor 1.0 and publication
below 2.0
Refereed Journals with impact Refereed Journals with 40 /
factor 5.1 and below 10.0 impact factor 2.0 and publication
below 5.0
Refereed Journals with Refereed Journals which 15 /
impact factor less than one are not indexed without publication
indexed any impact factor
Vernacular & Indian Vernacular & Indian 10 /
language journals in all language journals in all Publication
disciplines without any disciplines without any
impact factors included in impact factors included
the list of journals prepared in the list of journals
by the university and hosted prepared by the university
in its website and hosted in its website

Non impact factor National National level research 10 /
level research papers in non- papers in non-refereed/ publication
refereed/ journals but having non Journals but having
ISBN/ISSN numbers and the ISBN /ISSN numbers
list of journals prepared by and the list of journals
the university and hosted in prepared by the university
its website. and hosted in its website.
Full papers in conference Full papers in (b) 10 /
proceedings, etc. (Abstracts Conference proceedings, publication
not to be included) etc. (Abstracts not to be
included)
III(b) Research Text or Reference Books Text or Reference 50 /sole
Publication Published by International Books Published by author; 10/
s (books, Publishers with an established International Publishers chapter in
chapters in peer review system an edited
books, other book
than

refereed journal Subjects Books by National Subject Books by / national 25 /sole author, and 5/
articles) level publishers/State and level publishers/State and chapter in edited books
Central Govt. Publications Central Govt. Publications
with ISBN/ISSN numbers with ISBN/ISSN
Subject Books by Other local Subject Books by Other 15 / sole author, and
publishers with ISBN/ISSN local publishers with 3 / chapter in edited
numbers ISBN/ISSN numbers books
Chapters in knowledge Chapters in knowledge 5 / Chapter
based volumes by Indian/ based volumes in Indian/
National level publishers National level publishers
with ISBN/ISSN numbers & with ISBN /ISSN numbers
with numbers of national & & with numbers of national
international directories & international directories
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