Publication count resources

Click on the links below to download the respective documents. Please contact the Research Office if you have any queries.  

Department of Higher Education (DHET) policy-related information

• DHET Research Outputs Policy (updated version 2015)
• Research Output Policy 2015 and DHET communication: A summary

Journals

DHET-accredited journal list and indexes for the 2018 publication count cycle.
Click on the links below for the DHET-accredited list and indices for the current reporting period.

• DHET List of Accredited Journals for 2018 Publication Count Cycle
  • Web of Science Indexes:
    • Arts and Humanities Citation Index
    • Science Citation Index
    • Expanded Social Sciences Citation Index 
  • Scopus
  • The Norwegian list
  • International Bibliography of the Social Science (IBSS)l
  •  SciElo

  Accreditation of South African journals

  • Guidelines for the inclusion of journals to the DHET list of South African journals

  Useful templates and guides

  • Author Affiliation letter template
  • Template for requesting peer review information on books and proceedings  
  • Checklist for hardcopy submission
  • Publication count guidelines

  DHET-approved conferences

  The DHET has decided to suspend the DHET list of accredited conferences until more stringent and permanent criteria are introduced. Only conference proceedings publications that meet the criteria laid out in the DHET’s research outputs policy will be subsidised.

  

   

  For more information on the publication count contact the Research Support Services