1 Date: 12/02/2020 To, UGC - CARE and UGC journal committee members, PMO Public Grievances, Ministry of Higher Education, India. Sub: Complain about UGC-CARE list of journals without quality - improper checking, and less Indian Journals. I have already complained 2-3 times about journals on UGC-CARE portal with journal TITLE and ISSN and mentioned proof with links and screenshots, why again and again your committee asking proofs? From your side your committee can not check journals? It clearly looks partiality and miss practices going on by UGC CARE committee itself in current list from June-2019. In past UGC list there was also partialities and miss practices found. I am also sending this same letter with proofs to PMO public grievance cell and higher education ministry with same details. UGC CARE committee should recheck my prior complaints carefully, because this a matter of inequality and underestimation in published research consideration, future research publication scope and also publishing field of our country. Many journals with quality publication from India still not added in UGC CARE list after all 6 months time over. UGC-CARE consideration and checking policy is looking improper, that If any citizen complain about any journal with proof, then only UGC-CARE office will check that journal quality and proofs, so this shows purely inability of UGC CARE committee about journals list. I am sure that by UGC – CARE (June-2019) directly added listed around 700 journals without proper checking, because some of journals showing status as discontinue from Sept-2019 on UGC-CARE portal. If prior - all journals were checked properly with their quality and criteria, there’s no need to discontinue / remove it now. Even there is recommendation form which need to submit with proper setup channel through University / College IQAC. Then how those 700 journals directly added? UGC-CARE and UGC committee members should know that from Indian ISSN Agency web portal : 23,459 ISSN assigned from 1986 to 2018. This mean nearly 12000 to 15,000 ISSN journals may be running properly with regular publications in India. UGC CARE Group - 1 :- Science – 333, Social Science – 266, Arts & Humanities – 287, Multidisciplinary – 35, Indian languages – 171, In all categories many journals are from Abroad publishers, It’s nearly 35% journals are from India. Only 109 in Web of Science and 430 in Scopus journals are from India in their whole list of journals from beginning of both agencies evaluation history. This is also not a good practices going on for other journals which are run by Indian publishers and universities although fulfilled past UGC criteria, and UGC-CARE criteria. Last year UGC removed many journals without proper checking, although those journal with quality publication and fulfilled past criteria too. This way, almost researchers, professors, students published research work, with given efforts, time and money, now becomes less important as per new UGC - CARE circulars. As per JULY-2018 gazette for API score, in criteria clearly mentioned Peer-Reviewed OR UGC listed journal publication consideration, now many universities head authority, interview committee members are asking for only UGC CARE listed journal publication papers will be considered for score
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Date: 12/02/2020
To,
UGC - CARE and UGC journal committee members,
PMO Public Grievances,
Ministry of Higher Education, India.
Sub: Complain about UGC-CARE list of journals without quality - improper checking, and less
Indian Journals.
I have already complained 2-3 times about journals on UGC-CARE portal with journal TITLE and
ISSN and mentioned proof with links and screenshots, why again and again your committee asking
proofs? From your side your committee can not check journals? It clearly looks partiality and miss
practices going on by UGC CARE committee itself in current list from June-2019. In past UGC list
there was also partialities and miss practices found.
I am also sending this same letter with proofs to PMO public grievance cell and higher education
ministry with same details. UGC CARE committee should recheck my prior complaints
carefully, because this a matter of inequality and underestimation in published research consideration,
future research publication scope and also publishing field of our country. Many journals with quality
publication from India still not added in UGC CARE list after all 6 months time over.
UGC-CARE consideration and checking policy is looking improper, that If any citizen complain about
any journal with proof, then only UGC-CARE office will check that journal quality and proofs, so this
shows purely inability of UGC CARE committee about journals list.
I am sure that by UGC – CARE (June-2019) directly added listed around 700 journals without proper
checking, because some of journals showing status as discontinue from Sept-2019 on UGC-CARE
portal. If prior - all journals were checked properly with their quality and criteria, there’s no need to
discontinue / remove it now. Even there is recommendation form which need to submit with proper
setup channel through University / College IQAC. Then how those 700 journals directly added?
UGC-CARE and UGC committee members should know that from Indian ISSN Agency web portal :
23,459 ISSN assigned from 1986 to 2018. This mean nearly 12000 to 15,000 ISSN journals may be
running properly with regular publications in India.
UGC CARE Group - 1 :- Science – 333, Social Science – 266, Arts & Humanities – 287,
Multidisciplinary – 35, Indian languages – 171, In all categories many journals are from Abroad
publishers, It’s nearly 35% journals are from India. Only 109 in Web of Science and 430 in Scopus
journals are from India in their whole list of journals from beginning of both agencies evaluation
history. This is also not a good practices going on for other journals which are run by Indian publishers
and universities although fulfilled past UGC criteria, and UGC-CARE criteria. Last year UGC
removed many journals without proper checking, although those journal with quality publication and
fulfilled past criteria too. This way, almost researchers, professors, students published research work,
with given efforts, time and money, now becomes less important as per new UGC - CARE circulars.
As per JULY-2018 gazette for API score, in criteria clearly mentioned Peer-Reviewed OR UGC listed
journal publication consideration, now many universities head authority, interview committee
members are asking for only UGC CARE listed journal publication papers will be considered for score
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only. Often UGC circulars also not clearly clarify and making confusions. In this practices almost
researchers and universities teaching staff in hesitation and suffering.
Journals without proper publication ethics (many journals with only 1 page policy), publication and
other policies, journal description, indexing proof, impact factor proof and criteria of UGC, such
journals do not fulfilling present UGC-CARE criteria, or past UGC criteria although included directly
in UGC-CARE list. Why your committee doing such practices?
UGC committee even depends on abroad organization listings like Web of Science, SCOPUS. These
both agencies having their own specific limited criteria for evaluation of print and online journals,
which are also varied. Web of Science and Scopus listed journals publishing research papers, articles
the same way as other non listed journals publishing. There are many journals which listed as specific
1 year period in Web of Science OR Scopus listing, and not selected - listed in other year listing. So
what type of criteria do UGC decided for such journals. SCOPUS, and Web of Science both agencies
considering DOI, Citations etc. DOI is also one type of extra income generated source created by
abroad developer, which is providing digital number / link with charging yearly fees with per document
fee. Institutions, organizations, Journals need to purchase with cost in USD/Euro. It reflect as extra
cost considered in publication. Some of organization providing free service for uploading of research
document like Google Scholar, Academia, Internet Archives etc. Why researchers need to pay extra
for only such digital number, link rather than giving important to own research work. As for print
publication there is not such requirements, no need of any DOI and it consider same point score for
online and print publication.
Abroad Journal publishers, Scopus and Web of Science journals charges $ 70 USD to 700 USD for
only 1 research article / paper publication - such high fee, our Indian researchers, students and even
teaching faculties can not afford. Your committee should think over such different aspects as per Indian
situation. While, Indian publishers journal with quality publications with fulfilment of UGC
criteria, which are not considered still in UGC CARE list, they are charging nominal - affordable
Rs.500 to 2500 per article/paper. Only few are free journals with yearly, biannual publication, Often
cases arise that journal , publisher website showing free publication on their web portal, Not given any
fee details on their website, after author’s submission – process – acceptance, they are indirectly
charging processing fee, which is also miss practices. Even there is no difference in online publication
of journals which are listed or non listed, in online journal publication there’s PDF copy, XML view,
which are downloadable, some publishers are not even offering free view – download option after all
charging high publishing fee. It mean they run as only a business. Some journals publish with
protected options, shows only title, author details and abstract as free view, while open access journals
which provides free to view and download options. It also come to know that now in online
publications uploads of PDF/XML/word-PPT file format, open access journals published
papers/articles theory and contents can be found/caught easily in plagiarism checkers. While protected
published papers/articles theory and content matter can not be easily searchable. Then how we can
consider exactly plagiarism matter with percentage. In online world some any details can be share
online easily and removed too. Print publications theory and content matter are not available online
or searchable, then how can be consider it is original or not? So concept of consideration of plagiarism
is also looking limited thinking peoples work.
As far as in our country almost 900+ universities, 38,000+ colleges, 11,900 stand-alone institutions
and thousands of researchers, teaching faculties. Your committee should think over first about Indian
students, researchers, teachers perspectives. In present list of UGC-CARE abroad journals are more
than Indian journals. What it mean? Other journals of Indian universities and publishers are not given
more important. On name of abroad agency listing and quality only. Weather abroad private agencies
listing is authentic ? Let give answer if UGC and UGC-CARE committee has check each journal.
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In the same last 4-5 months after UGC CARE list arise, some of the listed publishers also doing miss
practices in publication offering fast publication with extra charges, few people working as third parties
to help in publication in UGC CARE, Scopus, Web of Science journals – offering in social media
openly with extra charges and in this way researchers also insist for higher payment and some fraud
practices too.
This is just from random checking and observation and found.
Find below Journals: weather they are with ISSN, Proper guidelines, Editorial
board, proper criteria and publication policies as per UGC, Indexing, online availability….
1)
24 Comparative Constitutional Law and
Administrative Law
http://rxshop-24-
online.com/search.html?key=kamagra&lang=en
http://calq.in/
https://www.livelaw.in/lawschool/call-for-
papers/call-for-papers-comparative-
constitutional-law-administrative-law-
quarterly-vol-4-issue-4nlu-jodhpur-
143407?infinitescroll=1
National
Law
University
NA E-ISSN
2347-4351
Nothing available online on National Law University website, about this journals, some of same
TITLE matching website , links available in google search - its confusing without ISSN.