NOTIFICATION

(Proposal for Consideration of the Paper under the Q1 Category Classification for Institute Research Fellow (IRF) application)

The Board of Academics (BoA), in its 63^rd meeting held on 16^th February 2026, vide Item No. 63.5, discussed the proposal to formulate standard criteria for verifying whether a paper falls under the Q1 category. After due deliberation, the BoA resolved to approve the following:

“For Q1 journal papers, the journal category shall be determined based on the best available classification in recognized databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, or an equivalent indexing service, as applicable on the date of submission, considering the overall journal category. If the journal is classified as Q1 in any one of these databases, the paper shall be considered a Q1 publication.”