In a list of names of 4000 journals, journals of Delhi University’s Department of Commerce and Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) have managed to find their spot. However; it is not a proud moment as the list contains the names of the journals, which are no longer recognized by the UGC.
According to the UGC, these journals have been removed “because of poor quality/incorrect / insufficient information/ false claims.”
“The UGC has received complaints about the inclusion of poor-quality or questionable journals from faculty, researchers, other members of the 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,” UGC said while notifying these journals.
Teachers and students are against the move by the UGC and said that UGC cannot impose such restrictions on the higher education.
“The advertisement for recruitment came in December last year. The screening was held and I have articles published in some of them. So, during the interview I do not know if my points will be calculated,” said an ad hoc geography teacher at a DU college.
The other journals from DU in the list are Indian Journal of Geography and Environment, Department of Geography, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, Thematics Journal of Geography.
“The journals were removed arbitrarily. The government wants to destroy research. Nowhere in the world does such a practice exist,” said Aaditya Narayan Mishra, DU teacher and former president, DUTA.
The All India Students’ Association is also against the new move by the UGC and said “the most important criterion for rejection is whether the journal has a website which provides full postal or email addresses of Chief Editor and Editors. Several journals were rejected on this flimsy ground… Why would the research scholars and faculty members pay the price for UGC’s whims and fancies?”
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