The UGC Standard

UGC standard Appraisal

The UGC Standard Appraisal Matrix covers the following

(1)   Teaching

(2)   Administrative Work and

(3)   Research

UGC API Matrix

The UGC Standard Appraisal Matrix covers the

Sno	Contribution	Details	API Score	Unit	Specifications
Teaching
1	Lecture, Seminars, tutorials, practicals, contact hours Undertaken taken as percentage of lectures allocated*		50
2	Lectures or other teaching duties in excess of UGC norms		10
3	Preparation & Imparting of knowledge / instruction as per curriculum; syllabus enrichment by providing the additional resources to students.		20
4	Use of participatory & innovative teaching-learning methodologies;updating of subject content, course improvement, etc		20
5	Examination duties(invigilation; Question paper setting, evaluation / assessment of answer scripts)as per allotment.)		25
Admin
1	Student related co-curricular, extension and field based activities (such as extension work through NSS/NCC and other channels, cultural activities, subject related events, advisement and counseling)		20
2	Contribution to Corporate life and management of the department and institution through participation in academic and administrative committees and responsibilities.		15
3	Professional Development activities (such as participation in seminars, conferences, short term, training courses, talks, lectures, membership of associations, dissemination and general articles, not covered in Category III below)		15
Research
	Research Publication (Journal)
1		Refereed Journal	15		Per Publication
2		Indexed Journal	5		Per Publication
3		Impact factor between 1 and 2	10		Per Publication
4		Impact factor between 2 and 5	15		Per Publication
5		Impact factor between 5 and 10	25		Per Publication
6		Non-refereed but recognized and reputable journals and periodicals having ISBN / ISSN	10		Per Publication
7		Conference - State level	10		Per Publication
8		Conference- National level	10		Per Publication
9		Conference- International level	10		Per Publication
	Research Publication (Books, Chapter in books, Other than refereed journal, articles)
10		Text or Reference Books Published by International Publisher with an established peer review system and with ISBN/ISSN numbers	50	Author	per sole author
11		Text or Reference Books Published by International Publisher with an established peer review system and with ISBN/ISSN numbers	10	Editor	per chapter in an edited book
12		Subjects Books by National level publishers/ State and Central Govt. Publications with ISBN/ISSN numbers	25	Author	per sole author
13		Subjects Books by National level publishers/ State and Central Govt. Publications with ISBN/ISSN numbers	5	Editor	per chapter in an edited book
14		Subject Books by other local publishers with ISBN/ISSN numbers	15	Author	per sole author
15		Subject Books by other local publishers with ISBN/ISSN numbers	3	Editor	per chapter in an edited book
16		Chapters contributed to edit knowledge based volumes published by International publisher	10		per chapter
17		Chapters in knowledge based volumes by National/International publisher with ISSN/ISBN numbers of national and international directories	5		per chapter
	Research Project (Sponsored)
18		Major	20	Above 500000	per project
19		Major	15	Above 300000 upto 500000	per project
20		Minor	10	Above 25000 to 300000	per project
21	Consultancy Project (Sponsored)		10	Above 200000
22	Patent / Technology transfer / product / process		30	per national level
23	Patent / Technology transfer / product / process		50	per international level
24	Research Guidance
25		PhD-Completed	10	Per Candidate
26		PhD Pursuing	7	Per Candidate
27		Mphil Completed	3	Per Candidate
28	Training Course/Conference/Working Paper		10	per international level	each
29	Training Course/Conference/Working Paper		5	per national level	each

API Calculation

As and when an employee updates his Profile an alert goes to the research admin to verify his contribution.

The research admin accepts or rejects the contribution and calculates the API point according to UGC Matrix

If their are co-contributors, the Research admin, divides the scores among them.