Frequently Asked Questions

IJCRT is the International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, a peer-reviewed, open-access, multidisciplinary research journal published monthly at IJCRT.ORG under ISSN 2320-2882. It has published continuously since 2013.

International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts. "IJCRT" is the journal's standard abbreviation and the form you should use when citing it.

2320-2882. The ISSN is the reliable key for verifying any journal: titles can be imitated, but an ISSN maps to one registered publication.

2013. The journal has maintained a monthly publication schedule since then, and the archive can be checked issue by issue.

IJCRT Publication. The publisher is responsible for the journal's infrastructure and finances; editorial decisions on individual manuscripts rest with editors and reviewers.

Monthly. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year rather than against a single annual deadline.

The journal is multidisciplinary, covering engineering and technology, computer science, basic and applied sciences, mathematics, management and commerce, humanities and social sciences, education, health sciences, agriculture, environment and law. The full list is on the Research Area page.

Yes. Every article is free to read from the day of publication, with no paywall and no embargo, under a CC BY 4.0 licence.

Mainly English, and also Indian and foreign languages. For a language other than English, first confirm with the editorial office that a language editor and reviewers are available, and send the font details and font file to editor@ijcrt.org.

Online. Every article has a permanent article page; a Crossref DOI is available on request.

Email editor@ijcrt.org or message +91 94294 58311 on WhatsApp. Always quote your paper ID if you have one.

The Journal Information page carries the complete specification: ISSN, publisher, established year, frequency, language, access model, review model, licence, identifier policy and subject coverage.

Prepare the manuscript using the journal template, then upload it through the submission portal at ijcrt.org. You will receive a paper ID; quote it in all later correspondence.

Word or PDF, as specified by the submission portal. Check the portal for the current requirement rather than relying on a figure quoted elsewhere.

No single deadline. The journal publishes monthly and accepts submissions on any day. A paper that misses the cut-off for one issue is carried into the next.

No. Simultaneous submission to more than one journal wastes reviewers' time and is treated as a breach of publication ethics.

No. Manuscripts must be original and unpublished. Reusing your own previously published text without citing it is self-plagiarism.

Title, authors with affiliations, abstract, keywords, introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion and a complete reference list, plus the required declarations.

Most journals specify between 150 and 300 words. Check the submission portal for the exact current requirement.

Usually four to eight. Choose terms your intended readers would actually search for, and avoid repeating words already in your title.

You may suggest reviewers or request exclusions in a covering note, with reasons. The editor is not bound by either suggestion.

Your manuscript is screened for scope, completeness, required declarations and similarity before any reviewer is invited.

Common reasons: out of scope, incomplete, missing ethical declarations, similarity above the policy limit, or already published elsewhere.

Yes, in writing, quoting the paper ID. Withdraw before rather than after acceptance wherever possible, since editorial and review work has already been performed by that point.

Yes, provided it is reworked into a standalone article, the thesis is cited, and any institutional restrictions are respected.

Yes. Review articles must state how the literature was selected, and must synthesise rather than list.

Yes. A case study should explain what makes the case instructive to readers working in other settings.

Yes, for concise reports of significant early findings, with enough method detail to assess the claim.

Double-blind review. Author identities are withheld from reviewers and reviewer identities from authors.

This is for all acceptance and publication time: your paper is evaluated by expert reviewers, and acceptance or rejection notifications are sent via email and SMS. Duration depends on reviewer availability and the revisions required, so no fixed turnaround is promised.

A guaranteed turnaround would mean the review was not what determined the outcome. Genuine assessment by volunteers takes the time it takes.

By email and SMS to the contact details supplied at submission. Keep those details current.

Accept, minor revision, major revision or reject.

The conclusions hold, but specific clarifications or corrections are needed. This is normally re-checked by the editor rather than returned to reviewers.

The work has merit but something substantive must change — additional analysis, a re-framed claim, or a serious gap addressed. It usually returns to the original reviewers.

Answer every comment individually in a separate response letter, say what you changed and where with section and page numbers, and explain with evidence where you disagree.

Yes. A reasoned disagreement supported by evidence is legitimate. Silently ignoring a comment is not.

Remove author names, affiliations and acknowledgements from the main file, refer to your own prior work in the third person, and strip identifying metadata from the file properties.

The handling editor. Reviewers advise; the editor decides.

Yes, if you believe the decision rested on a factual error or a misunderstanding. Write within a reasonable period quoting the paper ID and setting out specifically what was misunderstood, with evidence.

No. Appeals address factual errors or misunderstandings, not differences of opinion.

Write to editor@ijcrt.org with your research area and a link to your publication record.

Originality, significance, methodology, evidence, engagement with the literature, clarity, ethical compliance and presentation.

No. Uploading a manuscript under review to a public AI service breaches confidentiality, and reviewers are instructed not to do it.

₹1501 INR for Indian authors and $59 USD for foreign authors, per accepted article.

Per accepted article, covering a maximum of 5 authors. Each additional author after the 5th is charged ₹500 extra.

Only after your paper has been accepted. Nothing is payable at submission, during screening or during peer review.

No. The editorial decision is made by reviewers and the editor before any payment is requested. Payment cannot cause acceptance.

The publication charge is ₹1501 INR for Indian authors and $59 USD for foreign authors, per accepted article, payable only after acceptance. That is low relative to typical article processing charges, and more importantly it is published openly before you submit rather than disclosed afterwards. Judge affordability against the figure, not against a marketing phrase.

₹1501 INR for Indian authors and $59 USD for foreign authors. One charge per accepted article covering up to 5 authors (₹500 extra for each author after the 5th), with nothing payable at submission or during review.

Because nobody pays to read it. With no subscription income, editorial handling, similarity screening, copy editing, DOI registration and permanent hosting are funded by a one-time charge after acceptance.

Editorial handling, plagiarism screening, double-blind peer review, copy editing and proofing, publication with a permanent article page, Crossref DOI registration (on request), open-access hosting, publication certificates and metadata supply to indexing services.

Acceptance, substantive language editing, bank and currency conversion fees, third-party permission fees for reused figures, and indexing outcomes, which rest with the services themselves.

Yes, but request it before paying and supply the exact billing details required. Reissuing an invoice afterwards is slower and sometimes not possible.

Where a waiver or concession applies, eligibility and evidence are confirmed by the editorial office. Any request must be made before payment; it cannot be applied retrospectively.

The fee is charged only after acceptance, and once the paper is accepted and the fee paid it is not refundable. If you paid more than the amount due or paid twice, email editor@ijcrt.org with your paper ID and payment details; the editor checks the payment and returns the extra amount. See the Refund Policy.

Wait for the acceptance email, confirm the total in writing, pay only through the channels named in that email, and quote your paper ID in the payment reference.

No. If anyone requests money before acceptance while claiming to act for this journal, do not pay. Verify with editor@ijcrt.org first.

No. The amount published on the Publication Charges page should match what the submission portal and your acceptance email say. If the three ever differ, ask before paying.

A Crossref DOI is available on request for articles published in IJCRT; once requested, Crossref mints a permanent DOI for the article.

A Digital Object Identifier is a permanent name for a published work. Unlike a plain URL, which breaks when a site is reorganised, a DOI stays attached to the article because the publisher keeps the pointer up to date.

A resolver, a prefix beginning “10.”, and a suffix. An IJCRT DOI looks like https://doi.org/10.56975/ijcrt.v14i9.400073: 10.56975 is IJCRT’s Crossref prefix, and the suffix carries the volume, issue and article identifier. Anything not beginning “10.” after the resolver is not a DOI.

Title, all authors in order with affiliations, abstract, journal title and ISSN, volume, issue, pages, publication date, licence, article URL and the reference list.

Because they enter the permanent deposited record and flow out to indexing services and author profiles. Correcting them afterwards requires a formal correction.

Check for a copy-paste error, allow a short time if the article is very new, try the resolver directly, then email editor@ijcrt.org with your paper ID and the exact DOI.

No. A DOI is a permanent identifier for one article. Indexing is coverage of the journal's content by a search or abstracting service. They are separate things.

No. It proves an article exists as published and that its identifier resolves.

A registered DOI is intended to be permanent. A retracted article keeps its DOI and gains a retraction notice rather than disappearing.

ORCID is a free, persistent identifier that distinguishes you from researchers with similar names. Supplying it at submission attaches your work to the right person in every downstream database.

As a full link, for example https://doi.org/10.56975/ijcrt.v14i9.400073, and in the same form every time. When sharing your work, share the DOI link rather than a PDF so views and citations attach to the article record.

No. IJCRT is not currently indexed in Scopus. If your requirement specifically demands a Scopus-indexed journal, this journal does not satisfy it.

No, not currently. IJCRT is indexed in Google Scholar and registers Crossref DOIs. You can check any journal’s Web of Science status in the Clarivate Master Journal List.

No, not currently, although IJCRT follows open access practices such as CC BY 4.0 licensing. You can check any journal’s listing by searching doaj.org.

Because a coverage claim you cannot verify is worthless, and an honest statement lets you make an informed decision. The Indexing Verification page lists status with the steps to check each entry.

Go to the service's own website by typing its address, search by ISSN as well as title, confirm that real article records appear, check the publisher name matches, and note the date of your check.

No. Those are research-sharing platforms where researchers upload their own work. Listing them under "Indexed In" is misleading, and this site does not do it.

9.17, calculated from the journal’s Google Scholar citation data (h-index based) — 61,542 citations, an h-index of 96 and an i10-index of 1,341 on the profile, read on 30 Sep 2026. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. The Impact Factor Details page gives the method and the link to check it.

Open the journal’s Google Scholar profile and compare its citations, h-index and i10-index with the figures on the Impact Factor Details page. A figure quoted without its source cannot be checked; this one names its source so that you can.

The Clarivate figure is a specific proprietary metric computed only for journals in its database. Other "impact factors" are different calculations from different data and should always name their source.

A researcher has an h-index of h if h of their publications have each been cited at least h times. It combines output and citation, but cannot decrease, varies by field, and ignores author contribution.

Because each counts a different corpus of publications and citations. Neither figure is wrong; they answer different questions. Always name the source and date.

No. It is phrasing that implies coverage without claiming it. Either a journal is indexed or it is not. This site does not use the phrase except to warn against it.

IJCRT is a Transparent, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access Journal (Refereed Journal). Following the discontinuation of UGC and UGC-CARE journal listing, IJCRT is aligned with UGC’s Suggested Parameters for Choosing Peer-Reviewed Journals. See UGC CARE / UGC Approved Status and the UGC public notice.

Yes. The journal follows the UGC CARE guidelines for peer-reviewed journals - registered ISSN, transparent double-blind peer review, refereed status, published ethics and plagiarism policies, charges disclosed before submission, open access, regular monthly publication and accurate Crossref metadata. Each point is mapped to where you can verify it on the UGC CARE / UGC Approved Status page.

The University Grants Commission public notice is published at ugc.gov.in and is linked directly from the UGC CARE / UGC Approved Status page: https://www.ugc.gov.in/pdfnews/6124898_Public-Notice-CARE-Journals.pdf - read the primary source rather than any journal's summary of it.

Transparent means the review process is documented publicly rather than merely asserted. Peer-reviewed and refereed mean every research submission is assessed by subject experts before any decision to publish. Open access means the published article is free to read with no paywall or embargo.

The Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics, a University Grants Commission initiative maintaining a reference list of journals considered acceptable for academic assessment in India.

Not as a current listing. UGC discontinued the UGC-CARE journal list, and institutions now assess journals against UGC’s Suggested Parameters for Choosing Peer-Reviewed Journals. IJCRT is aligned with those parameters — see UGC CARE / UGC Approved Status.

Read the official UGC public notice on CARE journals, then check the journal against UGC’s Suggested Parameters — ISSN, editorial board, peer review, ethics policies, published charges and indexing — and note the date of your check. Journal Verification walks through each parameter. Ask your institution which criteria it applies.

A registered ISSN, an identifiable editorial board, a documented peer review process, published ethics and plagiarism policies, transparent charges, punctual publication, accurate metadata and the absence of misleading claims.

Yes. Lists are reviewed periodically. Your article remains published, but how an institution credits it depends on that institution's rules, so keep dated evidence of the status at the time.

No. They are separate processes with separate criteria.

Your institution's list governs how your publication is credited to you. Check with them before submitting anywhere.

Every manuscript is screened for similarity before review. The Plagiarism Policy states the threshold applied and what happens when it is exceeded.

No. Software detects textual similarity, not plagiarism. A high score can be driven by standard methodological phrasing; a low score does not clear appropriated ideas. Editors read the match report, not just the number.

Copying text, ideas, data, figures or code without attribution; close paraphrasing that keeps another author's sentence structure; and reusing your own published text without citing it.

Reusing your own previously published text without citing it. Some reuse is acceptable — an identical method may reasonably resemble your earlier paper — provided the earlier work is cited.

Those who contributed substantially to the conception or design, the acquisition or analysis of data, or the drafting and revision, and who approve the submitted version and accept responsibility for it.

Changes after submission require the written agreement of all authors. Changes after publication require a formal correction notice attached permanently to the article.

No. AI tools cannot take responsibility for the work or approve its submission. Disclose any use, naming the tool and what it was used for; you remain accountable for every sentence and citation.

That is the author's responsibility, not the tool's. Check every reference a tool produces against the actual source.

The journal issues a correction, an expression of concern or a retraction as the evidence warrants. Articles are never silently edited or deleted; the notice stays permanently attached.

Email editor@ijcrt.org with the article title or identifier and a clear explanation of the evidence.

Research involving human participants, patient data or animals must state the approving ethics committee and the consent obtained. Submissions reporting such work without these declarations are returned before review.

Funding with grant numbers, competing interests (or explicitly none), author contributions, ethical approval, consent, data availability and any use of AI tools.

You do. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to publish and distribute the article.

CC BY 4.0. Others may read, download, copy, distribute and build upon the work provided the authors and the journal are credited.

Yes. Under CC BY 4.0 you may deposit the published version immediately, with no embargo. It also adds an independent preservation copy.

Yes. Share the DOI link rather than a PDF so that views and citations attach to the article record.

Yes, for the authors named on the accepted manuscript.

It is maintained on the journal website with a permanent article page; a Crossref DOI (available on request) keeps citations resolving. Authors are encouraged to add a repository copy.

Only through a formal correction. The version of record cannot be silently edited.

Discovery depends on the service's own crawl schedule and on accurate deposited metadata. If your article has not appeared after several weeks, email the editorial office with your paper ID so the deposit can be checked.

Confirm the article page and DOI resolve, then check the deposited metadata for errors in author names or affiliations, which are the commonest cause.

Check that you can name the editor, that peer review is described specifically, that charges are published before submission, that ethics and correction policies exist, and that every indexing claim can be verified at the service's own site.

Unsolicited flattering invitations, guaranteed acceptance, extremely fast turnaround advertised as a feature, fees demanded before review, unverifiable metrics, walls of logos without verification links, unfindable editorial boards and a scope covering everything.

A site that copies a legitimate title, ISSN and design to intercept authors and collect fees. Reach any journal by typing its official domain directly, and confirm payment details independently.

No. A journal that states plainly it is not in Scopus is being straight with you. The distinction that matters is honesty and service, not prestige.

Before you finish. Knowing the venue shapes length, structure and framing, and avoids a late reformatting exercise.

Ask your research office or supervisor. Only your institution can tell you which lists it recognises and how a publication will be credited.

Request retraction in writing if it is published, do not submit the same work elsewhere while it remains published, tell your supervisor or research office early, and keep every email and receipt.

The IJCRT journal blog and Researcher Resources carry practical guides on writing, formatting, indexing, identifiers, metrics and research integrity.

Prepare the manuscript as set out in the Publication Guidelines, submit it online (or email it to editor@ijcrt.org), and it goes through screening and double-blind peer review. The decision is sent by email and SMS. After acceptance you complete the copyright form, the camera-ready copy and the charge of ₹1501 / $59, and the paper is published in the current monthly issue.

Open the submission page, enter every author exactly as they should appear in print, upload the Word or PDF file, and note the paper ID issued on submission. Quote that ID in every message.

Yes. Email the manuscript to editor@ijcrt.org with the title, authors, affiliations and subject area. The editorial office confirms receipt and the fit. The online portal is quickest because it issues the paper ID immediately.

Use Track Your Paper with your paper ID, or write to editor@ijcrt.org quoting it. Do not resubmit — that creates a duplicate record.

Only after acceptance. Pay online on the payment page or through the channels named in your acceptance email, and quote your paper ID. Nothing is payable at submission or during review.

Request it on the DOI & Hard Copy page — it is optional and registered on request (₹300 / $20). The DOI, under IJCRT’s prefix 10.56975, appears on your article page once Crossref has registered it.

Certificates are issued to the authors named on the accepted manuscript once the paper is published. If yours has not arrived, write to editor@ijcrt.org with your paper ID.

On the DOI & Hard Copy page: a hard copy of the certificate is ₹500 / $100, and the bundle of journal hard copy, certificate and DOI is ₹1100 / $170. Both are optional and on request.

Use Request Review Report. The formal Transparent Peer Review Report is available on request, and the review record is kept on Scholar9 — see Transparent Peer Review.

Run your manuscript through a similarity check. The accepted similarity is below 15%; quote and cite any text you reuse, including your own earlier work.

State the question, the method, the main finding and why it matters — usually in 150–300 words, with no citations. The guide How to Write an Abstract walks through each sentence.

Pick four to eight terms your intended readers would actually type, without repeating the title. See How to Choose Keywords.

Use the journal template, one consistent citation style, numbered figures and tables with captions, and SI units. The Research Paper Format guide and the Publication Guidelines cover the details.

Copy each reviewer comment into a numbered list or table, answer it directly underneath, and say exactly what you changed and where (section, page or line). Where you disagree, explain politely and with evidence. Upload the letter with a revised manuscript in which the changes are highlighted. See Responding to Reviewers.

Give the authors, year, title, “International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT)”, volume and issue, pages, and the DOI link where one is registered — for example https://doi.org/10.56975/ijcrt.v14i9.400073. Use one citation style consistently.

Search by title, author name, paper ID or issue — see How to Find Your Published Paper, or browse the current issue and past issues.

Open the ISSN Portal record for 2320-2882 and confirm the title and publisher match this site.

The figure is 9.17, calculated from Google Scholar citation data. Compare the citations, h-index and i10-index on the Impact Factor page with the journal’s Google Scholar profile.

Published IJCRT articles are crawled from their permanent article pages; accurate author names and affiliations are what make them attach to the right profile. See Getting Indexed in Google Scholar.

Write a findable title, state the finding in the first two sentences of the abstract, choose searchable keywords, use ORCID, and share the DOI link rather than a PDF so citations attach to the article record.

Apply on Join as Reviewer with your research area and publication record. Reviewers receive a Transparent Peer Review Certificate and a verifiable record on Scholar9.

Rework a chapter into a standalone article — see From PhD Thesis to Journal Article — or read the options in How to Publish a Thesis.

Send a proposal through Conference Proposal; the editorial office replies with the scope, timeline and terms.

Through a formal correction notice. Email editor@ijcrt.org with the paper ID, the exact correction and the agreement of all authors. The published record is annotated, not silently edited.

Keep it to one page addressed to the editor: the paper’s title and article type, two or three sentences on what it finds and why it suits IJCRT’s readers, confirmation that the work is original and not under review elsewhere, and any declarations such as funding, conflicts of interest or a preprint. Sign it as the corresponding author.

Number figures and tables in the order they are first mentioned and refer to each one in the text. Give every figure a caption and every table a title, label axes with units, use a resolution that stays readable when printed, and credit any third-party material you have permission to reuse. See the Publication Guidelines.

Use one consistent style throughout — the Publication Guidelines show a complete journal reference in APA style. Include DOIs where they exist, cite only works you have read, and check that every in-text citation appears in the reference list and every reference is cited.

Add a short statement before the reference list naming the tool and what it did — for example, improving grammar and readability — and confirm that the authors wrote, reviewed and verified all content. AI tools cannot be authors and must not be used to generate results, data or unchecked citations. See the AI Content Policy.

At submission, state any financial or personal relationship that could reasonably be thought to influence the work — employment, consultancy, funding, patents, shareholdings or a close relationship with those involved. If there are none, say so explicitly, for example “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

Add it before the reference list. Say where the data can be found (a repository and identifier), that it is available on request, or why it cannot be shared — for example “No new data were created” or “Data cannot be shared for ethical reasons”. Every paper needs one.

Register free at orcid.org, include your ORCID iD with your name and affiliation in the author details of your manuscript, and add the published article to your ORCID record once it is online, so your work stays linked to you even if your name appears in different forms.

Rewrite borrowed passages in your own words and cite the source, put exact wording in quotation marks with a citation, cite your own earlier work, and summarise standard methods briefly with a reference. Never use paraphrasing tools or hidden-character tricks to disguise copying — that is misconduct. IJCRT requires similarity below 15%, checked before review.

Post it on a recognised preprint server, then declare it when you submit. IJCRT does not treat a preprint as prior publication; declaring it simply avoids confusion when the similarity check matches your own preprint.

IJCRT publishes in English and in Indian and foreign languages. Before submitting, confirm with the editorial office that a language editor and reviewers are available for your language, and send the font details (name, version, Unicode or legacy) and the font file (.ttf or .otf) to editor@ijcrt.org.

Make it specific and searchable: state the topic, the setting or population and, where possible, the main finding or method, in about 10 to 15 words. Avoid unexplained abbreviations, puns and vague openings such as “A study on”.

Original research reports new findings; a review article synthesises published work; a case study analyses a specific case in depth; a short communication reports a brief but important result. Choose the type that matches your contribution and state it in your cover letter.

Use the same email address and mobile number throughout, because decisions and notices are sent by email and SMS to the contact details given at submission. If they change, write to editor@ijcrt.org with your paper ID.

Send a message to +91 94294 58311 on WhatsApp, or email editor@ijcrt.org. Quote your paper ID if you have one, so the editorial office can find your record quickly.