Guidelines for scoring points in category 3
- 1. UGC GUIDELINES FOR SCORING IN CATEGORY-III: RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS Brief Explanation: Based on the teacher s self-assessment, API scores are proposed for research and academic contributions. The minimum API score required by teachers from this category is 300 points for Associate Professor and 400 for Professor for Direct recruitment. S.No. APIs Faculties of Languages Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences/Library/ Physical education/Management Max. points for University and college teacher position III A Research Papers published in: Refereed Journals* 15 / publication Non-refereed but recognized and reputable journals and periodicals, having ISBN/ISSN numbers. 10 / Publication Conference proceedings as full papers, etc. (Abstracts not to be included) 10/ publication III (B) Research Publications (books, chapters in books, other thanrefereed journal articles) Text or Reference Books Published by International Publishers with an established peer review system 50 /sole author; 10 /chapter in an edited book Subject Books by / national level publishers/State and Central Govt. Publications with ISBN/ISSN numbers. 25 /sole author, and 5/ chapter in edited books Subject Books by Other local publishers with ISBN/ISSN numbers. 15 / sole author, and 3 / chapter in edited books Chapters contributed to edited knowledge based volumes published by International Publishers 10 /Chapter Chapters in knowledge based volumes in Indian/National level publishers with ISBN/ISSN numbers and with numbers of national and international directories 5 / Chapter III (C) RESEARCH PROJECTS III (C) (i) Sponsored Projects carried out/ ongoing Major Projects amount mobilized with grants above 5.0 lakhs 20 /each Project Major Projects Amount mobilized with minimum of Rs. 3.00 lakhs up to Rs. 5.00 lakhs 15 /each Project Minor Projects (Amount mobilized with grants above Rs. 25,000 up to Rs. 3 lakh) 10/each Project III (C) (ii) Consultancy Projects carried out / ongoing Amount mobilized with minimum of Rs. 2.0 lakhs 10pereveryRs.10.0 lakhs and Rs.2.0lakhs, respectively III (C) (iii) Completed projects: Quality Evaluation Completed project report (Accepted by funding agency) 20 /each major project and 10 / each minor project III (C) (iv) Projects Outcome / Outputs Major Policy document of Govt. Bodies at Central and State level 30 / each national level output or patent/ 50 /each for International level,
- 2. S.No. APIs Faculties of Languages Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences/Library/ Physical education/Management Max. points for University and college teacher position III (D) RESEARCH GUIDANCE III (D) (i) M.Phil. Degree awarded only 3 /each candidate III (D) (ii) Ph.D. Degree awarded 10 /each candidate Thesis submitted 7 /each candidate III (E) TRAINING COURSES AND CONFERENCE/SEMINAR/WORKSHOP PAPERS III(E) (i) Refreshercourses, Methodologyworkshops, Training, Teaching- Learning-Evaluation TechnologyProgrammes, Soft Skills development Programmes, Faculty Development Programmes (Max:30points) (a) Not less than two weeks duration 20/each (b) One week duration 10/each III (E) (ii) PapersinConferences/ Seminars/Workshops, etc.** Participation and Presentation of research papers (oral/poster) in (a) International conference 10 each (b) National 7.5 / each (c) Regional/State level 5 /each (d) Local University/College level 3 / each III (E) (iv) Invited lectures or presentations for conferences/ symposia (a) International 10 /each (b) National level 5 *Wherever relevant to any specific discipline, the API score for paper in refereed journal would be augmented as follows: (i) indexed journals by 5 points; (ii) papers with impact factor between 1 and 2 by 10 points; (iii) papers with impact factor between 2 and 5 by 15 points; (iv) papers with impact factor between 5 and 10 by 25 points. ** If a paper presented in Conference/Seminar is published in the form of Proceedings, the points would accrue for the publication (III (a)) and not under presentation (III (e)(ii)). The API for joint publications will have to be calculated in the following manner: Of the total score for the relevant category of publication by the concerned teacher, the first/Principal author and the corresponding author/supervisor/mentor of the teacher would share equally 60% of the total points and the remaining 40% would be shared equally by all other authors.