🏛️ DIRECTORATE OF RESEARCH BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI-620 024, TAMIL NADU, INDIA
ANNEXURE – I: UGC SUGGESTIVE PARAMETERS COMPLIANCE
Welcome to the official compliance and ethics portal for KALANJIYAM – International Journal of Tamil Studies (ngmtamil.in). As a premier, open-access academic journal dedicated to the advancement of multidisciplinary Tamil research, we strictly adhere to the highest global standards of publication ethics and academic integrity.
To ensure complete transparency for our authors, reviewers, and accrediting academic institutions, we have mapped our journal’s structural and editorial policies directly against the UGC Suggestive Parameters (Annexure-I) mandated by the Directorate of Research, Bharathidasan University.
Below is our comprehensive evaluation matrix, providing direct links 🔗 to the respective institutional policies and journal metrics.
| No. | Evaluation Criteria | For Office Use Only (Compliance Data & Links) |
| 1 | Journal Title |
📖 KALANJIYAM – International Journal of Tamil Studies |
| 2 | ISSN Number (Print/Online) | ✅ E-ISSN 2456-5148 |
| 3 | Periodicity and Continuity | 📅 Quarterly Publication (Feb, May, Aug, Nov). Published continuously since the first issue in May 2016 – ten years in 2026. |
| 4 | Contact and Publication Details |
🏢 Published via Dept. of Library, NGM College, Pollachi. |
| 5 | Transparent Review Policy |
🛡️ Double-Blind Peer Review Process |
| 6 | Website on a Certified Domain |
🌐 Certified Secured Domain |
| 7 | Open Access / Subscription Policy |
🔓 100% Open Access (CC BY 4.0 License) |
| 8 | Integration with Repositories |
🗂️ Integrated with CrossRef (DOI), Google Scholar, IRINS. |
| 9 | Archival Policy |
🗄️ Digital Preservation & Archiving Active |
| 10 | Editorial Board Details |
👨🏫 Publicly Listed Advisory & Editorial Members |
| 11 | Editorial Board Composition | 🎓 Diverse & Expert Composition (Includes members from Sahitya Akademi and NGM College Faculty). |
| 12 | Efficient Editorial & Review Process | ⚙️ Managed via Open Journal Systems (OJS) to ensure a streamlined workflow. |
| 13 | Aims, Objectives & Scope |
🎯 Promoting Global Tamil Studies & Research |
| 14 | Subject Areas Covered | 📚 Tamil Literature, Linguistics, Epigraphy, Folklore, and Translation Studies. |
| 15 | APC Transparency (if any) |
💳 Transparent Article Processing Charge Policy |
| 16 | Publishing Timeline | ⏱️ Strict adherence to the Quarterly schedule. |
| 17 | Acceptance Rate | 📊 Regulated through rigorous peer-review filtering. |
| 18 | Academic Contribution | 💡 High-impact contributions to multidisciplinary Tamil history and civilization. |
| 19 | Conformity to Journal Scope | 🔎 Checked continuously during the initial editorial desk-review stage. |
| 20 | Bibliographic Data & Citation | 📑 Standard academic citation formatting required for all submissions. |
| 21 | Font & Design | 🖋️ Standardized Unicode Tamil Fonts and high-quality PDF publishing. |
| 22 | Infographics & Exhibits | 🖼️ Supported natively within HTML galleys and PDF articles. |
| 23 | Citation Record | 📈 Trackable and maintained via Google Scholar metric profiles. |
| 24 | Print Continuum | 💻 Digital-First Focus (E-ISSN 2456-5148). |
| 25 | Quality of Website | 🖥️ Professional Academic Standard (Hosted on OJS infrastructure). |
| 26 | Multilingual Availability | 🌍 Bilingual (Tamil [தமிழ்] & English metadata/abstracts). |
| 27 | Ethical Guidelines for Authors |
⚖️ Adherence to International Research Ethics |
| 28 | Plagiarism Prevention |
🚫 Zero Tolerance Policy (Similarity must be <10%) |
| 29 | Conflict of Interest Disclosure |
🤝 Mandatory Declaration for all Authors and Reviewers |
| 30 | AI Generated Content Policy | 🤖 Governed under overarching academic integrity and COPE standards. |
| 31 | Impact Factor or Similar Metric | 📊 Not displayed. The journal does not publish impact factors or similar scores from unrecognised providers (see Indexing & Abstracting). |
| 32 | Indexation in Reputed Databases | 🔍 Crossref (DOI prefix 10.63300), Google Scholar and the Internet Archive. Only services where inclusion can be verified are listed. An application to Scopus was submitted in January 2026. |
| 33 | Self-Citation Score | 📉 Strictly monitored by the editorial board to prevent metric manipulation. |
| 34 | Total Citation Rate | 📊 Not reported. Citations to individual articles can be seen in Google Scholar. |
| 35 | CiteScore | 📌 Not yet available. An application to Scopus was submitted in January 2026; a CiteScore is calculated only after a journal is included in Scopus. |
| 36 | COPE Compliance |
✅ Strict adherence to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. |
🌟 Commitment to Scholarly Excellence
At KALANJIYAM, we believe that academic publishing is built on trust, transparency, and rigorous evaluation. By structurally aligning our journal with the Bharathidasan University UGC Suggestive Parameters, we ensure that our authors’ intellectual properties are protected, globally accessible, and recognized by premier academic institutions worldwide.
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