In the current time, credibility of the journal play a crucial role. That's why UGC that is University Grant Commission established Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics in 2019 with the purpose of creating a list of credible journals. UGC assures that a journal meet a certain standards of quality.
It has created and maintained a list of high quality and credible journals across various academic fields. This list serves as a reference to researchers and academicians to identify quality journal. The list comprises of two groups. Group one with journals found to be qualified enough through UGC CARE protocol. And Group two with Journals indexed in globally recognized database.
UGC CARE list is of high importance to the researchers in India, and here are the reasons:
It ensures credibility: When a journal is listed in UGC CARE, it signifies that the journal is of high quality and credibility. Which is crucial for researchers when publishing their research.
Avoiding Predatory Journals: UGC CARE list helps researchers to avoid the predatory journals. Publishing in UGC CARE list journal means publishing in a journal that adheres to ethical standards.
Meeting academic requirements: Many a times, institutions requires researchers to publish in UGC CARE list journal only.
Making Academic profile strong: A publication record with the UGC CARE journal helps researchers in their career growth.
The fact that IJIRT is listed in UGC CARE signifies that we are committed to academic excellence and ethical practices. Making us an ideal journal for research publications.
Great Peer review process: We have a stringent peer review process. This ensures all the research meet the quality that is required.
Higher Reach: UGC approval combined with high impact factor make our journal ideal to get higher reach for the researcher publishing with us.
Global reach: While being UGC CARE list journal, we are also ISSN approved journal. This ensures that the research published with us gets global readership which increases the research's impact.