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

Call for Research Publications: 2025 Publication Count

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 2026 publication count cycle and for publications to be made in 2026 (Click the link below to download)

• DHET Accredited Journals for 2026

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
• Template for requesting peer review information on proceedings
• Template for requesting peer review information on books/chapters
• Checklist for submission
• Publication count guidelines
• Template for Author affiliation

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