Cheating trick-1 used by bogus journals : UGC Approved!

By keeping a old/fake UGC search results, any one can claim it is listed in UGC approved list. 

For example click on the below journal page(ijcrt.org), it shows it is listed in UGC approved list. 

Here authors should search whether really it is listed in UGC approved list. For this authors should first visit UGC website(https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/apps1/home/index)

But the below (fake) image listed in their website shows that the journal is listed in UGC approved list. Please click the image below for the verification. In future the image link may be removed, but here we wish to provide awareness to the research community. 

How to search or identify a journal is UGC approved in UGC website?

First you must register with UGC website for searching a journal in the approved list. Also it is useful for identifying the fake journals. 

Select either title of the journal or ISSN of the journal. After entering the title of the journal, the results shows as as follows.

Also we can do search using ISSN number. The results shows as below.

From this analysis, one can conclude that this journal, International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT) https://ijcrt.org/ and its claim that it is in the UGC approved journal's list is false, so one can avoid publishing in this kind of journal.

As a note, other authors can also comment here about what you have identified to conclude fake journals. It helps in creating and maintaining a block listed journals for other authors.

- Thanks, keep on providing awareness to other authors.