Is Vilakshan – XIMB Journal of Management UGC-CARE approved?

Vilakshan – XIMB Journal of Management was on the UGC-CARE Group I list that was archived on 10 February 2025. The list was then discontinued by UGC on 11 February 2025, so that listing is a historical reference and does not indicate current validation. We hold Elsevier’s official Scopus Source List and this journal’s ISSN is not in it. That is the absence of a Scopus listing, not a judgement on the journal — many legitimate regional, humanities and newer journals are not indexed by Scopus.

Journal	Vilakshan – XIMB Journal of Management
ISSNs	`0973-1954` · `2633-9439`
Publisher	Emerald Publishing Limited
UGC-CARE Group I (archived list, frozen 10 Feb 2025)	Listed — historical reference only
Scopus (Elsevier Source List, 77683 ISSNs)	Not in the list we hold
DOAJ (open access directory)	Listed
Web of Science	Unknown — we do not hold that list

What this means for your submission

With the CARE list withdrawn and no Scopus listing, there is no national or index-level list we hold that currently validates this journal. That does not make it a bad journal — it means the burden moves to the eight areas UGC named when it replaced the list: journal preliminaries, editorial board, editorial policy, content quality, journal standards, research ethics, visibility and impact. Those are read from the journal itself, not looked up.

In every case the institution’s own ordinance governs. Many universities wrote the CARE requirement into their regulations and have not amended them, so a department may still ask for a CARE-listed journal even though the list no longer exists.

How this page was built

Two lists, both held locally and both checked by ISSN: the archived UGC-CARE Group I list (1481 ISSNs, frozen 10 February 2025) and Elsevier’s official Scopus Source List (77683 ISSNs). Journal names and DOAJ status come from OpenAlex. Nothing here is inferred: discipline, publication fees, review time and acceptance rate are not knowable from an ISSN list, so they are not stated. Where a list is not held — Web of Science — the answer is “unknown”, never a guess. Data generated 2026-10-13.

Of the 1481 ISSNs on the archived CARE list, 709 resolve to a named journal with an entry here; 413 are ISSNs no public source could name, so they get no page rather than a page titled by a number. Across the full archived list, 73.1% are not in Scopus.

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Questions

Is the UGC-CARE list still valid in 2026?

No. UGC discontinued the CARE list by a public notice dated 11 February 2025, following a decision at its 584th meeting on 3 October 2024. The archived list, frozen 10 February 2025, is a historical reference only. UGC replaced it with suggestive parameters across eight areas rather than a list of approved journals.

Is Vilakshan – XIMB Journal of Management indexed in Scopus?

Not according to Elsevier's official Scopus Source List, which is the list we check against. A publisher's own "Scopus indexed" badge is a claim rather than evidence; the source list is the evidence.

My university still asks for a UGC-CARE journal. What do I do?

Ask the department which rule currently applies, because the institution's ordinance governs and many retained the clause after the national list was withdrawn. Where a current index listing is accepted instead, a Scopus or DOAJ listing can be shown and checked independently.