CITATION.cff

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cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use jscpd in research, please cite it as below."
type: software
title: "jscpd: copy/paste detector for programming source code"
abstract: >-
  Language-aware copy/paste detector for 224 programming languages and
  formats. Finds exact (Type-1), renamed (Type-2) and near-miss (Type-3)
  code clones with a Rabin-Karp token search and syntax-tree function
  similarity, and reports them in 15 formats including JSON, HTML and SARIF.
authors:
  - family-names: Kucherenko
    given-names: Andrey
    email: kucherenko.andrey@gmail.com
version: 5.3.0
date-released: 2026-09-18
license: MIT
repository-code: "https://github.com/kucherenko/jscpd"
url: "https://jscpd.dev"
keywords:
  - code-clone-detection
  - copy-paste-detection
  - duplicate-code
  - static-analysis
  - code-quality
  - rust