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What is UGC CARE : UGC has set up a Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (CARE) to match global standards of high-quality research in all academic disciplines under its purview and to ensure prevention of academic misconduct that includes plagiarism in academic writing among students, faculty, researchers, and staff.
The UGC CARE has been set up to identify, continuously monitor, report and maintain “UGC-CARE Reference List of Quality Journals”. It’s a standard quality that every journal must follow.
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A journal not following this reference list is considered invalid.
As we know that UGC is the apex statutory body which controls the functioning of the Universities, but how does it do that? The main aim & role of UGC in higher education is to provide funds to universities.
It is also supposed to coordinate, determine & maintain the ethics in institutions of higher education. It ensures that every university follows certain rules if it is supposed to function as a UGC approved university.
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It also promotes and coordinates university education, frame rules on minimum standards of education, and setting standards for examination like ICAR NET, UGC NET & CSIR UGC NET. UGC’s ultimate goal is to bring every approved university to become standardized and under the same umbrella so there are no discrepancies in the quality of education being provided and that no student feels cheated.
The commission upholds the interpretation and cooperation among the universities, government and the community.
There is supposed to be minimum discrepancies among the expectations and deliverance among them. UGC has also set some standards and rules for the universities for being ‘UGC Approved Universities’. With the growth of higher education in India, many top, medium, and small universities are being established day by day. Every university that wishes to be UGC approved must meet its criteria if it’s supposed to get the tag of quality and excellence.
Among all these universities, there are many universities that are fake and not fit as per the UGC standards and are ineligible to award degrees to students. Therefore, UGC releases a list of such fake universities to help students identify these rejected universities.
Journals are the medium through which budding candidates publish their articles about their research. These sources are made available because of the UGC.
If the aspirants choose any private journal except for UGC care list for their research other than that, it is not considered as valid. As of now, the UGC Approved Journals list has now been replaced by UGC – CARE.
UGC aims to stimulate, empower and help grow the Indian academia through its “Quality Mandate”. UGC aims to eradicate any plagiarised and sub-par material that might damage the reputation and standards of international research.
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If you are looking for the publication of the paper in UGC approved journal then in the following there is the complete information, for this, you have to follow all the steps.
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Q. What is UGC care list?
Ans. A-list journal: Note that all the journals in the Consortium for Academic Research and Ethics (CARE) list of journals created by the University Grants Commission (UGC), India’s regulatory body for higher education, are regarded as reputed or quality journals. The list has been created by UGC based on various protocols.
Q. How can I check if a journal is UGC approved?
Ans. First you check whether the journal is listed in Web of Science (UGC-CARE List Group II). If it is listed, no more questions, the journal is UGC approved. If the journal is not listed in WOS, then check whether it is in the Scopus source list.
Q. What are cloned journals?
Ans. This phenomenon is also commonly known as “hijacked journals” or “clone journals.” Clone journal web pages are a counterfeit mirror of an authentic journal that exploit the title and ISSN of legitimate journals.
Q. What is Scopus index?
The Scopus is the number one abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed journals which contains more than 70 million items like scientific articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, lecture notes, and books.