[GOAL] Submission to UGC (India) on IF, DORA and DOAJ

[Sridhar Gutam]

Dear All, 

As you may be aware that the University Grants Commission (UGC) has set 
up a committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. V.S. Chauhan, Member, UGC 
and former Director, ICGEB (New Delhi) 
<http://www.ugc.ac.in/page/commission-members.aspx> to prepare the
 list of journals in which authors should be publishing in-order to gain
 score for Academic Performance Indicators (API) system. It is reported 
that this attempt is being made to address the sub-standard publishing 
by the authors from colleges/universities. It is also mentioned in the 
news that they may use give weight-age to the journal’s Impact Factor. 
(Source: 
http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/tight-norms-soon-for-journal-publications/article8657169.ece)

On
 the other hand earlier in December 2012, The San Francisco Declaration 
on Research Assessment (DORA) <http://www.ascb.org/dora/> an 
initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) had put forth a
 recommendation that “the need to eliminate the use of journal-based 
metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and 
promotion considerations” and had asked the individuals and 
organizations to sign the DORA declaration 
<http://www.ascb.org/files/SFDeclarationFINAL.pdf>.

It is seen that taking call from DORA, DBT/DST might have mentioned in their Open Access policy that they are not going to consider Impact 
Factors in career assessments, promotions or appointments (of 
individuals in research and academics) 
<http://www.dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/APPROVED%20OPEN%20ACCESS%20POLICY-DBT%26DST(12.12.2014)_1.pdf>.

I therefore, I would like to submit to you all my proposal of writing to UGC and Dr. Chauhan that as the DOAJ is 
improving in terms of quality and 
services, UGC may consider in giving 
weight-age to the DOAJ Indexed Journals while recommending the List of 
Journals and also not to consider Impact Factors for the 
assessment/appointments/promotions.

Please reply with comments/suggestions.

Thanking You

With Kind Regards
Sridhar

​Sridhar Gutam, PhD, ARS
Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) ｜ ​Associate Editor, DOAJ​​ ｜ Convener, Open Access India 
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