UGC CARE Journal List

About the 273 rows marked ⚠

Those rows print their title or publisher in Devanagari, Bengali or Gurmukhi in the original. The PDF embeds those scripts with a broken character map, so the text copies out garbled from every extractor — including Adobe’s. The rows are kept because the number, source, subject, ISSN, E-ISSN and country are all still correct, and each marker names the PDF page so you can read the original. Nothing on this page has been transliterated or guessed.

UGC-CARE was created in 2018 to give Indian academia a single reference list of peer-reviewed journals. In practice one central list could not keep pace with the range of disciplines and languages it had to cover, and an expert committee recommended replacing it. The Commission accepted that recommendation at its 584th meeting on 3 October 2024, published the decision on 11 February 2025 in supersession of the 2018 notice, and invited feedback until 25 February 2025. After that feedback the 591st meeting on 24 June 2025 approved the replacement, and the notice of 16 July 2025 confirmed both the final parameters and the archiving of the list.

The shift is from a list you check to criteria you apply. Responsibility moves to higher educational institutions, faculty and students, who are asked to judge a journal against the parameters below and, where useful, through internal committees that adapt those parameters to their own disciplines.