This often happens.

The criteria should be: indicate the indexing status just when the paper was published. It is the more reasonable way.

I have to say I can't understand the question. Why is it important for an article to be in a journal indexed by Scopus? What about the recent belief of the academic community that it is important for an article to be of good quality within the appropriate scientific domain? Personally, I am deeply convinced that the existence of the concept of indexing journals in so-called serious platforms has little to do with the scientific excellence of authors but, above all, with the preservation of general present discrimination between nations, unfortunately, in the field of scientific creativity and scientific publication. Of course, this belief of mine does not mean that I am against indexing scientific journals. It seems to me that I understand the editorial boards of journals that try to attract more quality texts by referring to fictitious claims that the text is of good quality by being published in such an indexed journal. The current existence of indexing scientific journals is a condescension of the academic community to the political establishment, which wants to bypass the inflexibility of prominent scientists and to independently assessing the quality of scientific periodicals.

As can be seen, my reflection on this paradigm is not a direct answer to your question.

Dear Rob Keller,

Please go through attachment.

Dear Nishad T M ,

Your paper http://scik.org/index.php/jmcs/article/view/5495 is published in volume nr. 11, issue nr 3 in 2021. According to https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100944441 (if you click on Scopus content coverage) they indexed 175 papers in 2021. Unfortunately, this is not the final ‘verdict’ (yet).

If you go to the latest list of discontinued titles (see enclosed file), row nr. 474 column H and I Scopus will (in the near future) indicate which issue nr. will be included (if your lucky this will be all issue nr. published in 2021).

The thing is that this journal (after they received a Scopus index) ‘all of a sudden’ accepted and published four times more papers, this is often a reason for Scopus to raise ‘a publication’ concern. Logic behind it is that the Scopus team has doubt on how a journal can handle so many more manuscripts (according to all required scientific standards).

Back to your question, suppose your volume and issue nr. will remain indexed then I would say that you are entitled to say that you have a paper in a Scopus indexed journal (although it is currently no longer indexed your paper will remain indexed in principle forever). It would be ridiculous if it is not because sometimes a title is ‘simply’ terminated (because of lack of sufficient number of submissions or because of commercial reasons etc.), this does not mean that papers in such a journal all of sudden are not good anymore, they were and are properly indexed papers.

Unfortunately, I do not know how UGC handles these type of issues, perhaps someone else can comment on this.

Best regards.

PS. You need to keep track on the next list of discontinued titles to see whether Scopus determined the final volume and issue nr. for this journal they will index (and after that will stop the indexing). You can check for the latest list(s) here https://www.scopus.com/home.uri (scroll down and you can click on the “Scopus source list”).

Hai, The above mentioned article is Published in March 2021. In UGC Care list it shows Scopus Coverage from June 2019 to April 2022. So this article comes under Scopus Coverage and in UGC Care list.

Every Problem has a Solution.

Ramon Piloto, Daniel Romano and Rob Keller.

My Problem was - I completed my First Doctoral Committee meeting in 2019 June presenting my topic as synopsis.I received Application for PhD Registration in March 2020. Then again Doctoral committee meeting to decide my course work syllabus. Then 6 months I had to do course work. In December 2020 I completed my course work exams.We need to score minimum 75% in each exam. If score is low in any exam, all the exams should be repeated or Registration will be cancelled. I could Score 85% and above in each. After exam our target is to present two papers in international conference. I did that and the extended version of the paper submitted to Scopus Indexed journal Since 2019. Submission was on Jan 2021. In March I received its acceptance and thus got published. So I felt happy. As per our PhD Regulation the Research student should have atleast 2 articles in Scopus database thus in UGC CARE LIST, Or in SCI, Web of Science, or in UGC CARE journal.

But later some of my co researchers informed me. There is a problem. If you submit thesis after getting one more article published in Scopus and finishing the target, University will not consider the thesis now since your submission time is Jan2023. There is another problem. We cannot trust Scopus. Scopus updates every year and removes and includes various journals. If the journal is removed then university may again demand article in Scopus which is active in thesis submission time. So you do not try to publish next article soon.

This is why I posted the question. Now I got a solution. I means ( the researchers under Bharathidasan University Tamilnadu ) there is a circular from university. The researcher can report this issue to the university and the university UGC CARE committee will check all details and during research period if the journal was under Scopus and before thesis submission time it was removed then through the reporting, that article will be credited as one article in the target that given to the researchers. Order in Tamil. I did its procedures. In the application form there is instruction to the UGC CARE committee to check the cloned/ hijacked/ fake journal or not. So if any one come up with cloned journal, the UGC CARE committee will report and the PhD registration might be cancelled.

In my case I am very happy by seeing that Solution from University. The circular is in Tamil. But my friends gave ne its proper explanation. See attachment.

Now I have unhappiness. Its because at that time one more article was accepted in other Scopus but I didnot take further steps to get it published.

Now its modified version is under review.

This is why I got enough time to prove 5 world famous conjectures apart from my PhD work. Articles were easy targets to me.

My First Research Supervisor Dr A Prasanna is very simple and Humble. He informed me, I had read your articles in independent research so I hope you can achieve targets from university. In your first DC, Dr. Soaliraju, Dr. NagoorGhani and Dr. Ismail are convinced on your topic. So don't wait till you get confirmation from university. Start your work on articles. If you can try Nishad Prasanna Algorithm I will be happy to read it.After confirmation, you have to start course work 6 months so you will not get time for one aticle. After coursework exams you can present papers and articles. During that time lag I could prepare one article. The second one was required required support of a guide who has experience in application. So after publication of first one Prasanna Sir informed me select Change of Guide option, Dr. B Mohamed Harif Govt College Thanjavur will best suitable to you. In govt college fees is less than Aided Autonomous.

See attachment.

Perhaps the reader of this thread might have curiosity to know the brief of my first Doctoral Committee. What idea I presented and why?

It is nothing but my one published article in MPhil completion time. At that time the journal had UGC, Thomson Reuters etc.See attachment and conclusion.