IJCRR

Instructions to Author (s)

IJCRR Policy on Commercial Considerations: 

All financial activities of IJCRR functions on monetary help received from authors as publication fees and journal subscription charges. IJCRR does not accept any donations/grants/advertisements from any commercial organization to maintain sanctity in the publication of unbiased research. Remunerations, Software cost, Website Management Charges, Membership fees of Associations, Print charges, and other miscellaneous expenditures are managed from the monetary help received as of publication fees and journal subscription charges.

The publication fee is calculated based on the following parameters and revised every year. Parameters to calculate publication fees-

1. Total manuscript published last year
2. Total revenue generated from publication fees
3. The total expenditure for last year
4. Estimated expenditure for the current year (10 % increase than last year)
5. Estimated publications for the current year (Considered same numbers as last year)

Authors of accepted manuscript need to pay INR 10,000 (USD 300 for foreign authors) as publication charges for publishing their manuscript in IJCRR

IJCRR Policy on Hard Copy of Journal: 

The articles in IJCRR are open access articles licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. We strongly encourage the “Online” publication model to minimize the additional carbon footprints resulting from printing on papers. But we also understand that ‘Hard Copy’ of the journal is required by some authors, students, and institutions. Therefore, we distribute hard copies of journals to authors and institutions/libraries (subscribers) as per demand raised by them. Charges for hard copy are separate from Article Processing Charges or Publication Charges. Authors and subscribers are requested to submit separate ‘Hard Copy’ request applications to IJCRR editorial office.

IJCRR Policy on Informed consent: 

Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should identify Individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance.

Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt.

For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note.

IJCRR Policy on Conflict of interest: 

Public trust in the peer-review process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how well conflict of interest is handled during writing, peer review, and editorial decision making. Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author's institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties). These relationships vary from those with negligible potential to those with great potential to influence judgment, and not all relationships represent true conflict of interest.

The potential for conflict of interest can exist whether or not an individual believes that the relationship affects his or her scientific judgment. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal, the authors, and of science itself. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion.

IJCRR Policy on Human and Animal Rights: 

When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5) or further. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

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