UGC CARE List: The Short Answer Before the History
If you are searching for the UGC CARE list today, the most useful sentence comes first: the University Grants Commission no longer maintains it. UGC decided at its 584th meeting on 3 October 2024 to discontinue the UGC-CARE journal listing, announced the decision in a public notice dated 11 February 2025, and in July 2025 notified a replacement framework called the Suggestive Parameters for Peer-Reviewed Journals. The last list, with 1,474 journals as on 10 February 2025, was uploaded for reference only. UGC says that being on or off that frozen list implies no validation or endorsement.
That does not make the history irrelevant. The CARE list was the reference point for PhD submissions, faculty appointments, promotions and research assessments across Indian higher education for roughly six years, and the standard it tried to enforce is exactly the standard the new parameters now ask you to check for yourself. Understanding what the UGC CARE list was, why it existed, how its two groups worked and why it ended is the fastest way to understand what a good journal looks like in 2026.
What the UGC CARE List Was and Why UGC Created It
UGC CARE stands for the University Grants Commission Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics. UGC announced it through a public notice on 28 November 2018 as part of what the Commission called its Quality Mandate, a push to raise the standard of research coming out of Indian universities and colleges. The consortium brought together UGC, statutory councils and selected universities, with a UGC-CARE Cell hosted at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) that analysed journals and maintained the list from 2019 onward.
The problem CARE was built to solve was concrete. Before 2018, UGC ran an "Approved List of Journals" that institutions used to decide which publications counted for Academic Performance Indicator (API) scores in appointments and promotions. That list grew by accepting recommendations from universities, and over time a large number of titles with no real peer review, no editorial transparency and, in some cases, no genuine existence beyond a website were added. When UGC re-evaluated the list in 2018 it removed thousands of titles, and the credibility of the whole mechanism was damaged. CARE was the replacement: a curated reference list, built on an analysis protocol rather than on recommendations alone.
A reference list, not a ranking
CARE described its list as a reference point for institutions. It never ranked journals against one another, and its two groups were explicitly not tiers.
Run by an academic cell
The UGC-CARE Cell at SPPU analysed journals against the CARE protocol, handled clone complaints and published periodic updates.
Fed by universities and councils
Universities and statutory council members submitted journals for analysis. Submission was not inclusion; the cell could and did decline titles.
Used for high-stakes decisions
PhD pre-submission requirements, faculty recruitment, promotion and research grant reporting all came to depend on it.
UGC CARE List History, 2017 to 2025: A Complete Timeline
The UGC CARE list history is really the history of three different ways of answering one question: which journals count? The timeline below is drawn from UGC's own notices and from the UGC-CARE portal, and it is the sequence you need when someone insists that a 2026 list exists or that a journal "was added to CARE last year".
- 2017
UGC publishes an Approved List of Journals for API scoring. Universities recommend titles, and the list grows quickly.
- 2018
After complaints about quality, UGC re-evaluates the approved list and removes thousands of journals. A study by the SPPU cell later finds that a large share of the earlier list did not meet basic publishing standards.
- 28 November 2018
UGC public notice establishes the Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics. The UGC-CARE Cell is set up at SPPU, Pune.
- 2019
The first UGC-CARE Reference List appears, initially organised into four groups (A to D), and the ugccare.unipune.ac.in portal opens with search by title, ISSN, subject, language and publisher.
- 2020 to 2023
The list is simplified into Group I (journals qualified through CARE's own protocol) and Group II (journals indexed in recognised global databases). Updates are released periodically, titles are added and removed, and separate clone-alert pages are published for each group.
- 3 October 2024
At its 584th meeting UGC decides to discontinue the UGC-CARE listing, following an expert committee review.
- 11 February 2025
UGC's public notice announces the discontinuation, publishes draft suggestive parameters and invites stakeholder feedback until 25 February 2025.
- 24 June 2025
The Commission approves the final Suggestive Parameters for Peer-Reviewed Journals after considering the feedback received.
- 16 July 2025
UGC notifies the parameters (as Annexure-I) to higher education institutions and uploads the list of 1,474 CARE journals as on 10 February 2025, marked for reference only.
The CARE list did not fail because the idea of quality was wrong. It ended because a single central list could not keep pace with a system as large and varied as Indian higher education, and because responsibility for judging journals now sits with institutions and authors.
Objectives of the UGC CARE List
UGC stated the objectives of UGC CARE clearly, and every one of them still describes what a credible journal should be doing. Reading them as a checklist rather than as history is the most practical use of this section.
Promote quality research and integrity
Encourage publication in journals that run genuine peer review and follow ethical publishing practice, across every discipline including Indian languages and Indian knowledge systems.
Remove predatory and dubious titles from academic use
Stop publications in fake, cloned or pay-to-publish-without-review journals from counting toward degrees, appointments and promotions.
Create a transparent analysis protocol
Judge journals on documented criteria such as editorial board, peer review policy, regularity, ethics statements and archiving, rather than on recommendation alone.
Recognise global indexing without duplicating it
Carry journals already covered by recognised international databases through Group II, so that CARE did not have to re-assess what Scopus or Web of Science had already assessed.
Support Indian-language and humanities scholarship
Give Arts, Humanities, Languages, Culture and Indian Knowledge Systems journals, which global databases cover thinly, a route to recognition through Group I.
Keep the standard alive
Review titles periodically, remove those that stopped meeting the protocol, and publish clone alerts, so the list stayed a living reference rather than a one-time certificate.
UGC CARE Group I vs Group II: What the Difference Was
The question "what is the difference between UGC CARE Group I and Group II?" still appears in viva voce examinations and promotion interviews, so it deserves a precise answer. The two groups described two different routes onto the list. They were not ranks, and the UGC-CARE Cell said so explicitly.
| Aspect | Group I | Group II |
|---|---|---|
| Basis for inclusion | Journals analysed and found qualified by the UGC-CARE Cell under the CARE protocol | Journals already indexed in globally recognised databases such as Scopus and Web of Science |
| Typical origin | Mostly Indian journals, with special reference to Arts, Humanities, Languages, Culture and Indian Knowledge Systems | Journals from every country and discipline carried by the recognised databases |
| Who assessed them | The UGC-CARE Cell at SPPU, on submissions from universities and council members | The database's own content selection process; CARE did not re-assess them |
| How to verify today | Only through the frozen reference list, which UGC says carries no endorsement | Directly in the database source lists, which continue to operate as before |
| Relation between groups | Not hierarchical. A Group I journal was not "lower" than a Group II journal; it simply reached the list by a different route. | |
The earlier four groups (A to D)
The first CARE list in 2019 used four groups. Group A held journals indexed in Scopus or Web of Science, and the other three held journals qualified through CARE analysis, with Indian-language journals treated separately. The four-group arrangement was replaced within the first year by the simpler Group I and Group II structure, which is why most references after 2020 mention only two groups. If a journal's website still displays "Group A" or "Group D", the badge is from the earliest months of the list and is in any case no longer current.
Subject spread of Group I
The companion article on this site preserves a widely cited snapshot in which Group I held 1,456 journals across five subject categories. The bar chart below shows the share of each category in that snapshot; it is a list-era figure kept for reference, not a current count.
What a UGC CARE Listed Journal Was Expected to Show
The CARE protocol was never published as a single scoring sheet, but the features it looked for were consistent across UGC's notices, the cell's communications and the reasons given when titles were removed. Those features are worth memorising, because the Suggested Parameters that replaced the list are, in effect, the same expectations written out in more detail.
A listed journal was expected to
- Hold a valid ISSN whose registered title and publisher matched the journal's website
- Run a documented peer review process with a named, checkable editorial board
- Publish on a regular, stated frequency with a browsable archive
- State its access model, fees and licensing openly before submission
- Publish ethics, plagiarism and retraction policies
- Appear in recognised indexes or databases appropriate to its field
A journal was removed or refused if it
- Published low-quality or plagiarised content
- Could not show how peer review actually happened
- Displayed indexing claims that did not match any database record
- Existed as a cloned online version of a print-only title
- Was found, after complaints, to breach publication ethics
- Stopped publishing on schedule or let its archive lapse
Why UGC Discontinued the CARE List
The question "why was the UGC CARE list discontinued?" has an official answer and a practical one. Officially, an expert committee reviewed the mechanism and the Commission accepted its recommendation at the 584th meeting. Practically, the reporting around the February 2025 notice and the UGC chairman's own comments point to a set of recurring problems that a central list could not solve.
- Over-centralisation: one cell in one university was deciding, for the whole country, which journals in every discipline counted.
- Delays: new or improving journals, especially in Indian languages and emerging fields, waited long periods for analysis, and researchers waited with them.
- Predatory titles still slipped in: despite the protocol, some journals on the list were later found to run no genuine review, and clones of listed journals multiplied because the badge was valuable.
- Opacity: the criteria and the reasons for individual inclusions and exclusions were not fully public, which made the list hard to challenge or improve.
- Narrow coverage: many credible regional-language and discipline-specific journals never reached the list, so good work went unrecognised while list-chasing distorted where people published.
What Replaced the UGC CARE List: The Suggestive Parameters
The replacement is not a new list. UGC's Suggestive Parameters for Peer-Reviewed Journals are a set of criteria, grouped into categories, that faculty, students and institutions are asked to apply when choosing where to publish. UGC calls them suggestive because institutions may adapt them to their disciplines, and it recommends that each higher education institution form an internal committee to do so. In practice, most university circulars issued since mid-2025 reproduce the categories almost unchanged.
| Category | What UGC asks you to look at | Two-minute check |
|---|---|---|
| Preliminary criteria | Valid ISSN, clear title and scope, stated periodicity, publisher details, access and fee policy, a professional website with archiving arrangements | Search the ISSN at portal.issn.org and compare title, publisher and country with the website |
| Editorial board | Named members with genuine affiliations and expertise matching the scope | Look up two editors on their institutional pages |
| Editorial policy | Described peer review process, authorship rules, correction and retraction policy, realistic timelines | Find the review model and typical duration in writing |
| Content quality | Published articles that are original, rigorous and within scope | Read two recent papers from different issues |
| Journal standards | Consistent formatting, article metadata, references, persistent identifiers such as DOIs, regular issues | Click three DOIs and confirm they resolve to the journal |
| Research ethics | Plagiarism screening, conflict of interest handling, misconduct policy, disclosure rules for AI use | Locate the ethics and similarity-check statements |
| Visibility | Presence in databases, repositories and discovery services suitable to the field | Search the journal and a recent article in Google Scholar and any claimed index |
| Impact | Citation behaviour comparable to peer journals, with self-citation in a reasonable range | Ask what any impact figure is based on and who calculated it |
Three consequences follow. First, there is nothing for a journal to "apply to" any more; any agency offering paid UGC listing is selling something that does not exist. Second, your institution's written rule now matters more than any national document, so read the circular your university issued and keep a copy. Third, verification has become a personal skill. The next section turns the parameters into a routine you can run in about twenty minutes per journal.
How Authors Should Choose a Journal Now
Without a list, the practical question is how to choose a journal that your committee will accept and that you will not regret. The flow below is the one our editorial team recommends to authors who write in asking whether a journal is "UGC approved". It maps onto UGC's parameter categories, so the evidence you collect is the evidence a committee wants to see.
- Define the purposePhD requirement, promotion, grant report or simply reaching readers. Each has a different written rule.
- Read your institution's circularNote what it requires: parameters, databases, or a committee's approval.
- Shortlist by scopePick three to five journals whose recent issues contain papers like yours.
- Verify identityISSN Portal, publisher contact, domain age, editorial board affiliations.
- Verify processPeer review policy, fee timing, ethics, licence, DOI behaviour, issue regularity.
- Record and decideSave dated screenshots, then submit to one journal only.
Questions worth asking every journal before you submit
- Who reviews papers, under which model, and how long does a decision usually take?
- Is the full fee, including any add-ons such as DOI or print copies, published before submission, and is it payable only after acceptance?
- Under which licence will my article be published, and do I keep copyright?
- Where is the archive kept, and will my article remain available if the journal closes?
- Which indexes or databases list the journal, and can I find it there myself by ISSN?
- What is any impact figure based on, and does the journal say plainly whether it is a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor or a calculated metric?
Cloned Journals: The Problem That Outlived the List
Because a CARE badge was valuable, criminals copied it. A cloned journal takes the title, ISSN, logo and sometimes whole pages of a genuine journal and places them on a different domain, where it collects manuscripts and fees. The UGC-CARE Cell published separate clone alerts for Group I and Group II titles, and those pages remain online as a historical record on the portal. The clone problem did not end with the list, so the habit of checking must not end either.
Start from the ISSN, never the name
A clone shares the name. The ISSN record at portal.issn.org shows the registered publisher and, usually, the genuine URL. If the domain in front of you differs, stop.
Reach the journal through a database
If a journal claims Scopus or Web of Science coverage, open its record in that database and follow the link from there rather than from a search engine or an email.
Test the DOIs
Open several DOIs from different issues. Clones frequently reuse the genuine journal's DOIs, which resolve to the real publisher, not to the site asking for your money.
Contact an editor independently
Find a named editor and write through the address on their institutional page, not through the contact form on the site you are checking.
The historical UGC clone-alert pages are at the Group I clone alert page and the Group II clone alert page. Our dedicated guide on detecting cloned and fake journals expands these four checks into a twenty-point checklist and explains what to do if you have already paid.
Where You Can Publish: Journals Aligned with UGC's Parameters
Readers of this guide usually want a practical destination as well as an explanation. The three journals below belong to the same publishing network as this site. JMVRA, the Journal of Modern and Versatile Research Approach, was established in June 2023, never held a CARE listing and does not claim one. What it does is document, parameter by parameter, how it meets UGC's Suggested Parameters for Choosing Peer-Reviewed Journals: a verifiable ISSN (2984-8911), a published double-blind peer review policy, a named editorial board, Crossref DOIs under the prefix 10.56975, CC BY 4.0 licensing, a monthly schedule, and a fee of 971 rupees for Indian authors or US$41 for international authors that is payable only after acceptance.
Journal of Modern and Versatile Research Approach (JMVRA)
- ISSN 2984-8911 Verify ISSN
- ESTD 2023 · Publisher JMVRA Publication · Website jmvra.org
- Impact Factor 11.25* · Crossref DOI prefix 10.56975
- Publication fee ₹971 Indian authors · US$41 international — payable only after acceptance
- Aligned with UGC’s Suggested Parameters for Choosing Peer-Reviewed Journals
TIJER – International Research Journal
- ISSN 2349-9249 Verify ISSN · ESTD 2014 · Website tijer.org
- Publication fee Low cost ₹970 INR Indian · $50 USD international
- UGC CARE Approved, Transparent Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journal as per new UGC Notification
- Multidisciplinary · Monthly · Crossref DOI · Indexing in all major databases & metadata
Journal of Novel Research and Innovative Development (JNRID)
- ISSN 2984-8687 Verify ISSN · ESTD 2023 · Website jnrid.org
- Publication fee Low cost ₹970 INR Indian · $50 USD international
- UGC CARE Approved, Transparent Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journal as per new UGC Notification
- Multidisciplinary · Monthly · Crossref DOI · Indexing in all major databases & metadata
* JMVRA’s 11.25 is a calculated metric based on citations from Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar. It is not an official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor (JCR). TIJER and JNRID details are as stated by their publisher. Full comparison: Our Journals.
Apply the verification routine from this guide to all three journals before you submit. JMVRA's own parameter-by-parameter record is on the UGC CARE discontinued page, and its review process is described on the peer review policy page. If your institution requires a specific database rather than parameter alignment, confirm that requirement first; no journal in this network claims Scopus, Web of Science or DOAJ coverage.
Common Mistakes and Myths About the UGC CARE List
Most confusion about the UGC CARE list in 2026 comes from a handful of repeated errors. Correcting them saves authors money and saves committees embarrassment.
Myths still in circulation
- "UGC releases a new CARE list every year." It does not; the last list was frozen as on 10 February 2025.
- "A journal can apply for CARE listing." No application route exists since the discontinuation.
- "Group II was better than Group I." The groups were routes, not ranks.
- "A UGC approved journal number proves quality." Those numbers belonged to the pre-2018 list, which UGC itself cut back.
- "UGC issues impact factors." UGC has never calculated or published an impact factor for any journal.
- "Google Scholar indexing equals UGC approval." Google Scholar is an automated crawler with no selection process.
What is actually true
- The frozen reference list exists for reference only and carries no endorsement.
- The Suggestive Parameters are the live UGC yardstick, applied by institutions.
- Scopus, Web of Science and DOAJ continue exactly as before; they were never UGC bodies.
- Your university's own circular is the document that decides what counts for you.
- A journal can state that it is aligned with the parameters and show the evidence; it cannot hold a CARE certificate.
- Clone alerts from the list era remain a useful historical warning.
Glossary of terms used in this guide
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| UGC | University Grants Commission, the statutory body that coordinates and sets standards for higher education in India. |
| CARE | Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics, the UGC initiative that built and maintained the reference list from 2019 to early 2025. |
| UGC-CARE Cell | The unit at Savitribai Phule Pune University that analysed journals, maintained the portal and published clone alerts. |
| Group I / Group II | The two routes onto the list: CARE-assessed journals, and journals carried from recognised global databases. |
| Reference list | The 1,474-journal snapshot as on 10 February 2025, uploaded by UGC for reference only. |
| Suggestive Parameters | UGC's July 2025 criteria for choosing peer-reviewed journals, applied by institutions and authors. |
| API score | Academic Performance Indicator, the points system for which the pre-2018 approved list was originally built. |
| Cloned journal | A fraudulent website that copies a genuine journal's title, ISSN and branding to collect fees. |
| ISSN | International Standard Serial Number, the registered identifier for a serial publication; the first thing to verify. |
Conclusion: Use the History, Apply the Parameters
The UGC CARE list was a serious attempt to fix a real problem, and for six years it did useful work: it pushed Indian journals toward documented peer review, it gave humanities and Indian-language scholarship a route to recognition, and it made cloning and predatory publishing harder to ignore. Its objectives were sound; its structure, a single central list, could not scale. UGC's decision of October 2024, announced in February 2025 and completed with the July 2025 parameters, moved the responsibility for judging journals to the people best placed to do it: institutions and authors.
For you, that means three things. Keep the history so you can explain it. Keep the parameters as your checklist. And keep the verification habit, because the clone problem is permanent. If you are looking for a journal that publishes its evidence openly, JMVRA and its network partners welcome your manuscript; the step-by-step guide and the questions below will help you decide whether to submit your paper.
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How to choose a journal now that the UGC CARE list is gone: step by step
Confirm the current UGC position
Read the 11 February 2025 notice and the July 2025 parameters on ugc.gov.in so you are working from the official position rather than from a forwarded message.
Get your institution's written rule
Ask the research cell or IQAC for the circular that implements the parameters locally and note any database or committee requirement it adds.
Shortlist journals by scope
Read the last two issues of each candidate and keep only those publishing work like yours at a comparable standard.
Verify the ISSN
Search each journal's ISSN at portal.issn.org and compare the registered title, publisher and country with the website in front of you.
Check the editorial board
Look up two or three editors on their institutional pages and confirm they acknowledge the role.
Read the review and fee policies
Confirm the review model, typical timeline, the full fee including add-ons, and that payment is due only after acceptance.
Test persistence and visibility
Open three DOIs from different issues and search a recent article in Google Scholar and in any claimed index.
Screen for clones
Compare the domain with the ISSN record, search the journal name with the word "clone", and contact an editor independently if anything looks off.
Record your evidence
Save dated screenshots and a short note against each parameter category; this file is what a committee will ask for.
Submit to one journal only
Prepare the manuscript to that journal's template, run a similarity check, and submit through its own portal rather than an emailed link.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the UGC CARE list?
The UGC CARE list was a reference list of quality journals maintained by the University Grants Commission's Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics from 2019 until early 2025. Universities used it to decide which publications counted for PhD requirements, appointments and promotions. UGC discontinued it following a decision in October 2024 and replaced it with Suggestive Parameters for Peer-Reviewed Journals.
Is the UGC CARE list still valid in 2026?
No. UGC discontinued the listing, announced the decision on 11 February 2025, and uploaded the final list of 1,474 journals as on 10 February 2025 for reference only. UGC states that inclusion or exclusion on that frozen list implies no validation or endorsement. Institutions now apply UGC's Suggestive Parameters, usually through their own circulars and committees.
Why was the UGC CARE list discontinued?
An expert committee reviewed the mechanism and UGC accepted its recommendation at the 584th meeting on 3 October 2024. Reporting around the decision cited over-centralisation, delays in assessing journals, predatory titles that still slipped through, limited transparency about criteria, and thin coverage of Indian-language and discipline-specific journals. UGC chose to decentralise the judgement to institutions using published parameters.
What was the difference between UGC CARE Group I and Group II?
Group I held journals analysed and found qualified by the UGC-CARE Cell under its own protocol, mostly Indian journals and with special reference to Arts, Humanities, Languages and Indian Knowledge Systems. Group II held journals already indexed in recognised global databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. The cell stated plainly that the groups were not ranked; they were two routes onto the same list.
What were the objectives of UGC CARE?
To promote quality research and academic integrity, to remove predatory and cloned journals from academic use, to assess journals through a transparent protocol rather than recommendation alone, to recognise global indexing through Group II without duplicating it, to support Indian-language and humanities scholarship through Group I, and to keep the standard current through periodic review and clone alerts.
What replaced the UGC CARE list?
UGC's Suggestive Parameters for Peer-Reviewed Journals, approved on 24 June 2025 and notified to higher education institutions on 16 July 2025 as Annexure-I. They group criteria into categories such as preliminary criteria, editorial board, editorial policy, content quality, journal standards, research ethics, visibility and impact. UGC recommends that each institution form a committee to apply and adapt them.
How do I check whether a journal was on the UGC CARE list?
Search the journal's ISSN in the frozen reference list that UGC uploaded in July 2025, and remember that UGC attaches no endorsement to it. For Group II journals, the stronger check is the database itself: search the ISSN in Scopus Sources or the Clarivate Master Journal List. For any journal, the parameters matter more than past list status.
Can a journal still be "UGC CARE approved" or "UGC CARE listed" today?
No journal can hold a live CARE listing, because the list is discontinued. A journal may honestly say it was on the reference list during the list era, or that it is aligned with UGC's Suggested Parameters and show the evidence. Treat any claim of being newly added to UGC CARE in 2025 or 2026 as false.
Was JMVRA ever on the UGC CARE list?
JMVRA was established in June 2023 and has never been on the CARE list, so it does not claim a listing. JMVRA is aligned with UGC's Suggested Parameters for Choosing Peer-Reviewed Journals and documents each parameter on its UGC CARE discontinued page: verified ISSN 2984-8911, published double-blind peer review, named editorial board, Crossref DOIs, CC BY 4.0 licence and fees payable only after acceptance.
Does my university still accept journals that were on the UGC CARE list?
That depends on your university's current circular. Many institutions now apply the parameters directly, some still reference the frozen list as a transitional measure, and some add database requirements of their own. Ask your research cell for the written rule before you submit anywhere, and keep a copy with your verification evidence.
How do I avoid cloned UGC CARE journals?
Start from the ISSN rather than the journal name, compare the registered publisher and URL with the site you are on, open several DOIs and watch where they resolve, reach the journal through a database record rather than a search result, and contact a named editor through their institutional address. The historical clone-alert pages on the UGC-CARE portal remain a useful reference.
What should I do if I already paid a journal that claimed UGC CARE listing falsely?
Stop any further payment, write to withdraw the manuscript and keep every message, report the website to your institution's research cell, and raise a dispute with your bank or card provider promptly, because the window is short. Then resubmit the manuscript to a verified journal, since a withdrawn paper is not a published one.
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