Direct Marketing Policy
The AJIST Direct Marketing Policy explains how the Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology (AJIST) may communicate legitimate journal information and invite manuscript submissions from researchers whose work is relevant to the journal’s Aims and Scope. Direct marketing activities are intended to be appropriate, accurate, well targeted, proportionate, and non-intrusive.
1. Scope of Direct Marketing
Direct marketing may include calls for papers, special-issue announcements, journal updates, invitations to submit manuscripts, and other communications concerning AJIST publishing activities. Such communication is intended to reach researchers or professional audiences with a reasonable subject connection to AJIST.
2. Accuracy and Transparency
AJIST marketing communications must accurately describe the journal, its publisher, Aims and Scope, Peer Review Process, publication schedule, Gold Open Access model, author fees, policies, and current abstracting, indexing, or discovery information. Current journal facts should be checked against the Journal Overview and Journal Insights pages before they are used in outreach.
AJIST will not use misleading, exaggerated, ambiguous, or unverifiable claims about the journal or its services. This approach is consistent with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, which state that journal direct marketing should be appropriate, well targeted, unobtrusive, truthful, and not misleading.
3. No Guarantees or Improper Claims
AJIST will not use direct marketing to guarantee manuscript acceptance, favourable peer review, unusually rapid publication, citation impact, future indexing, or any other outcome that depends on independent editorial assessment or external evaluation. Authors should rely on the current Peer Review Process, Author Guidelines, and Submit Manuscript pages for the journal’s actual procedures and requirements.
4. Targeting and Frequency
Communications should be directed to audiences for whom AJIST’s subject coverage is reasonably relevant. Marketing should be proportionate in frequency and should not be repetitive, intrusive, deceptive, or designed to pressure recipients into submitting manuscripts or purchasing services.
5. Editorial Independence
Direct marketing is kept separate from editorial decision-making. Whether an author receives, opens, responds to, ignores, or opts out of a marketing communication has no influence on initial editorial assessment, reviewer selection, double-blind peer review, acceptance, rejection, correction, retraction, or publication. The journal’s Revenue Sources Statement also explains the separation of financial considerations from editorial decisions.
6. Use of Contact Information and Privacy
Contact information used for journal communication is handled in accordance with the AJIST Privacy Policy and is used only for legitimate journal and publishing purposes. AJIST does not treat an individual’s response to marketing as an editorial factor. Recipients may contact the publisher regarding inappropriate or unwanted communications.
7. Opt-Out and Complaints
Recipients may request that AJIST stop sending non-essential direct marketing communications to them. Requests or complaints concerning journal marketing may be sent to the editorial office. Operational communications relating to an active submission, peer review, editorial appointment, payment, production, correction, or publication are service communications and are not treated as marketing messages.
8. Contact
Questions about this policy or concerns about AJIST marketing communications may be directed to the AJIST Contact page or the editorial office below.
Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI)
9/865, Maruthi Nagar, Rakkipalayam Post
Coimbatore - 641031, Tamil Nadu, India
Email: editorial@crijournals.org
