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 2020 publication count cycle. (Click the link below to download)

• DHET List of Accredited Journals for 2020 Publication Count Cycle

Accreditation of South African journals

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

Useful templates and guides

• Motivation for claiming subsidy of authored books/chapters

• Requesting justification from the editor for chapters

• 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.

Useful forms for logging an eRA system’s related issue

• Adding an unlisted UCT author to the eRA system
• Adding a journal to the eRA system