All Journal Policies

₹1501 INR for Indian authors, $59 USD for international authors — disclosed here in full, charged only after acceptance, never at submission.

Accepted payment modes, invoice/receipt issuance, currency conversion basis and what happens if a payment fails or is delayed mid-process.

The general terms under which authors submit to and publish with IJCRT, covering usage of the submission portal and site.

Exactly which situations qualify for a refund of publication charges, the process to request one, and realistic turnaround time.

How Goods & Services Tax applies (or does not apply) to publication charges for Indian and international authors, and how it is reflected on receipts.

Current Impact Factor of 09.17, calculated from Google Scholar citation data, with the exact methodology explained.

UGC CARE approval status, indexing databases, DOI registration and every licence IJCRT holds, laid out with verification links.

Step-by-step submission format, manuscript template requirements and the full editorial workflow from upload to publication.

The transparent peer-review model used for every submission, reviewer assignment criteria and how decisions are communicated to authors.

Eligibility, nomination process and selection criteria for the Best Research Paper Award given each cycle.

How to propose a conference partnership for special-issue publication of accepted conference papers.

Reviewer eligibility, responsibilities, confidentiality obligations and how to join the reviewer panel.

Every submission is screened before review. The similarity thresholds, what is excluded from the count, and exactly what happens at each level of overlap.

Generative AI may assist with writing but cannot be an author. What must be disclosed, what is permitted, and why fabricated citations get papers rejected.

The four ICMJE criteria, author order, gift and ghost authorship, and why the author list is fixed at the moment a paper is accepted.

What authors, reviewers and editors must declare. Disclosure is not disqualification — concealment is what causes the problem.

Fabrication, falsification, image manipulation and paper mills — how allegations are investigated under COPE flowcharts, and why honest error is treated differently.

Ethics committee approval, informed consent, the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE reporting. Approval obtained after the research is not approval.

Trials must be registered publicly before the first participant is enrolled. Accepted registries, required reporting and the rules on outcome switching.

Every paper carries a Data Availability Statement. Where to deposit, the FAIR principles, and the legitimate reasons data cannot always be shared.

Errata, corrigenda and addenda. Published papers are never edited silently — every change is a public, linked, permanent notice.

Grounds for retraction and the process behind it. A retracted paper is marked permanently, never deleted — removing it would break every citation to it.

The interim notice used while a serious question is investigated. It warns readers without pre-judging the outcome, and is always temporary.

How to challenge a decision or report a problem — acknowledged in 3 working days, resolved in 30, assessed by someone not involved originally.

Permanent article URLs, Crossref DOIs, daily backups and print copies — plus what happens to the archive if the journal ever ceases publication.

Preprints are welcome and there is no embargo. Because you keep copyright, all three versions may be deposited anywhere, immediately.

Authorship criteria, conflict-of-interest disclosure, plagiarism handling and misconduct investigation, aligned with COPE guidelines.

Every article is free to read, download and reuse under Creative Commons licensing, with no reader-side paywall of any kind.

What author, reviewer and visitor data is collected, how it's stored and encrypted, and how to request access or deletion.

Scope of liability for content, views expressed by authors, and the limits of what IJCRT can guarantee about third-party links.

Journey & Wisdom Publications, parent company of IJCRT.ORG — site terms, digital delivery, hard-copy dispatch, privacy and refunds in one place.

The CC BY 4.0 licence every published paper carries, what any reader may do with an article, how to credit it, and what authors warrant on submission.

Licensing terms for published content and the exact process to report a suspected copyright infringement for investigation.

No advertiser, sponsor or conference partner influences what is reviewed or published. The separation between commercial arrangements and editorial decisions, written down.

Answers to the questions authors ask most often about submission, review timelines, fees and publication.

Direct editorial office contact — email editor@ijcrt.org and WhatsApp +919429458311 — for anything not covered by a written policy.

A full, structured index of every page on the IJCRT website, useful if you can't find something from the menus.