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National Medical Council (NMC) Criteria For Publication
National Medical Council (NMC) is the apex body which controls the medical education within the union territory of India. It prescribes various rules regulating medical education throughout india.

It has come up with the regulations about the type of research papers which can be considered for promotions in various medical colleges in India.

NMC in its gazette notification dated 22/02/2022 has come up with the rules for publications which is going to be considered for promotional purposes in various teaching posts across medical colleges in india.

According to this gazette notification only Original Research Paper, Meta-Analysis, Systematic Review or Case Series are valid for promotional purposes and case report is no longer going to be considered for the purpose of promotions.

Not only the paper should either be Original Research Paper, Meta-Analysis, Systematic Review or Case Series but also it should be published in a journal which fulfills the indexing criteria as prescribed in gazette notification dated 22/02/2022. And the indexing criteria mentioned in the relevant gazette notification includes journals either indexed in pubmed or Medline, Central Citation Index,Science citation Index, Expanded Embase, Scopus, Directory Of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Earlier journals indexed in index Copernicus were also considered valid but now recent criteria doesn't include index copernicus indexed journals.

Only 1st, 2nd and 3rd author as well as corresponding author will get benefit of publication and 4th author onward will not get such benefit.