The University Grants Commission (UGC) has informed that it has constituted a Standing Committee, under the chairpersonship of Prof. V.S. Chauhan, Member, UGC for the purposes of preparing a “List of Journals” as required under clause 6.0.5(i) of 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. The regulations are available at http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2016/170658.pdf .
As per these regulations only those research papers that are published in the journals included in the “List of Journals” are eligible for scoring on the research and academic contribution category of the Academic Performance Indicators (API) for teacher and academic staff.
The identification of journals by the committee is an ongoing and continuous process. The regulations have been notified on 11th July, 2016.