The UGC has received complaints
about inclusion of poor quality or questionable journals from faculty,
researchers, other members of academic community as well as from press and media
representatives. Considering these
complaints, the Standing Committee on Notification of Journals re-evaluated every journal title
recommended by universities as well as those indexed by Indian Citation Index on filtering
criteria defined by the Standing Committee. Based on careful scrutiny and
analysis, 4305 journals are removed from the current UGC Approved List of
Journals because of poor quality / incorrect / insufficient information/ false
claims. The list of journals removed from approved list is
available at https://www.ugc.ac.in/journallist/4305_Journals.pdf
In addition to these journals, 191
titles covered in Indian Citation Index are pending for evaluation by the
Standing Committee on Notification of Journals. The list of 191 journals pending
for evaluation is available at
