About the Journal

Journal of Traditional and Folk Practices (JTFP)

Biannual (June & December) | Peer-Reviewed | Open Access | No Submission Charges | ISSN: 2278-5906 |DOI Prefix: 10.25173/jtfp |Publisher: KSCSTE - Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI)

CURRENT STATUS: CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN

Manuscript Submissions are Now Actively Open

• Please view our Announcements Tab on the main navigation menu for extensive details regarding deadlines, volume themes, and specific loop cycles.

• Before initiating your submission workflow, please ensure your manuscript packet fully satisfies the updated anti-plagiarism mandates and bioethics frameworks detailed below.

Core Journal Matrix

Mandatory Submission Policies

To satisfy international indexing criteria and maintain our standing in elite databases like the UGC-CARE List, JTFP enforces strict compliance pipelines immediately upon submission:

1. Mandatory Plagiarism Certificate

Authors must upload a formal Plagiarism Certificate (Similarity Report Summary) as a supportive supplementary file during initial submission. This certificate must be generated from an officially recognized, premium evaluation platform (such as iThenticate by Turnitin or Ouriginal / Urkund).

• The overall cumulative similarity index must be less than 15%.

• Text overlap from any single published source must not exceed 2%.

• Manuscripts uploaded without a valid similarity report will face automatic desk rejection prior to reviewer assignment.

2. Ethical Clearances & Research Safeguards

Methodologies tracking folk medical procedures, community-wide field surveys, ethnopharmacological trials, or laboratory animal models must document rigid bioethics frameworks within the text:

• Human Subjects Research: Studies involving human participants must comply with the Declaration of Helsinki. Authors must confirm that written informed consent was obtained from all participants and that approval was granted by an appropriate ethics review committee or institutional review board.
• Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge/Data Collection: Research involving traditional, Indigenous, local, or community-held knowledge and records must be conducted with respect for community rights, cultural protocols, and data sovereignty principles. Authors must confirm that prior informed consent was obtained from relevant individuals and/or communities, and that any required permissions, agreements, or approvals were secured before data collection and publication.
• Animal Research: Studies involving vertebrate animals must have approval from an appropriate Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) or equivalent ethics body and must adhere to the ARRIVE Guidelines. Authors must provide details of ethical approval and measures taken to ensure animal welfare.

3. Data Availability Statement (DAS)

Authors are required to integrate a standalone Data Availability Statement immediately preceding their reference list, detailing where raw metadata or ethnobotanical arrays can be accessed (e.g., public repositories, or available on reasonable academic request).

4. Generative AI Disclosure

AI and LLM modules cannot claim co-authorship. Any text optimization or translation assistance provided by artificial intelligence software must be transparently disclosed in a dedicated section before the references, in alignment with COPE guidelines.

Pre-Submission Verification Checklist

Ensure your submission packet contains the following files before confirming your upload inside OJS:

• Anonymized Manuscript: Main text file completely stripped of author names, institutional tags, and obvious self-citations to ensure a clean double-blind review.

• Plagiarism Certificate: Valid similarity report summary showing less than 15% overlap from iThenticate or Turnitin.

• Author Declaration Form: Signed by all co-authors confirming originality and approval.

• Bonafide Certificate: Valid institutional proof signed by your Head of Department (required only if applying for the Concessional APC rate upon initial submission).