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Indian researchers are told to publish in a “UGC-CARE or Scopus” journal as though the two overlap. We hold both lists, so we counted.
73.1% of UGC-CARE Group I journals are not listed in Scopus. Of the 1,481 ISSNs on the UGC-CARE Group I list, 399 also appear in Elsevier’s Scopus Source List. The other 1,082 do not. Counted by direct comparison of the two lists on 2026-10-05 — no sampling, no estimate.
Gold: the 26.9% of UGC-CARE Group I that Scopus also lists.
| Measure | ISSNs | Share of UGC-CARE |
|---|---|---|
| UGC-CARE Group I, total | 1,481 | 100% |
| In both UGC-CARE and Scopus | 399 | 26.9% |
| In UGC-CARE but not Scopus | 1,082 | 73.1% |
| Scopus Source List, total | 77,683 | — |
Both lists are published by the bodies that maintain them. We hold each as a set of ISSNs and intersected them directly — every ISSN on the UGC-CARE Group I list was checked against every ISSN on the Scopus Source List. There is no sampling, no modelling and no estimation step, so the figures are reproducible by anyone holding the same two files.
ISSNs were normalised to their hyphenated eight-character form and validated by check digit before comparison, so a mistyped or mis-scanned identifier cannot count as a match.
This is not a quality judgement. UGC-CARE and Scopus are separate lists built on different criteria with different coverage. A journal on UGC-CARE but not in Scopus may be a perfectly legitimate Indian or regional peer-reviewed title that Scopus has never indexed. Absence from a list is absence of evidence, not evidence of a problem.
An ISSN list carries nothing else. It does not record a journal’s publisher, country, discipline, article processing charge, review time or acceptance rate. None of those appear on this page because we cannot compute them from these files, and a page like this is only worth anything if every figure on it can be checked.
Web of Science is not included. Clarivate’s Core Collection lists are available to subscribers only, so we do not hold them and make no claim either way about WoS coverage.
Avloryn Labs LLP (2026). UGC-CARE Group I and Scopus overlap, by ISSN. LivoDraft.
Retrieved from https://livodraft.com/ugc-care-scopus-overlap
The figures are free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0). If you are writing about Indian journal indexing and want the underlying counts broken down differently, write to [email protected].
If you have one journal in mind rather than the whole list, the free ISSN indexing checker answers the same question for that ISSN — against the same lists, with no login and no payment. The Journal Finder goes further and suggests journals that fit a finished paper.