Direct Marketing

Journal of Islamic Mubādalah is committed to conducting all promotional and direct marketing activities in an ethical, transparent, accurate, and responsible manner. The journal recognizes that direct marketing may be used to increase the visibility of the journal, disseminate published research, invite relevant scholarly contributions, and reach potential authors, reviewers, readers, institutions, and academic communities.

All direct marketing activities conducted on behalf of Journal of Islamic Mubādalah, including calls for papers, manuscript invitations, email announcements, website announcements, social media promotion, and other forms of academic communication, are carried out in a manner that is appropriate, well targeted, unobtrusive, and relevant to the journal’s aims and scope.

The journal does not engage in aggressive, deceptive, excessive, or misleading marketing practices. Promotional messages are directed only to relevant academic audiences, researchers, institutions, and scholarly communities whose fields of expertise or interests are reasonably related to the focus and scope of the journal, including Islamic studies, mubādalah studies, gender justice, Islamic family law, Islamic legal thought, social justice, and other related fields.

All information provided in the journal’s promotional materials must be accurate, transparent, and verifiable. Journal of Islamic Mubādalah does not make false or misleading claims regarding editorial services, peer review process, publication speed, acceptance guarantees, indexing status, impact metrics, publication fees, editorial board membership, journal reputation, or affiliation with any institution or indexing database.

The journal does not guarantee acceptance of any submitted manuscript through marketing or promotional communication. All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Islamic Mubādalah are subject to the journal’s editorial screening, plagiarism checking, peer review process, publication ethics policy, and final editorial decision. Promotional activities do not influence editorial decisions, peer review outcomes, or publication acceptance.

In conducting direct marketing, Journal of Islamic Mubādalah respects the privacy and autonomy of authors, reviewers, readers, and other members of the academic community. Contact information used for journal communication is managed responsibly and used only for legitimate editorial, academic, publication, and journal-related purposes. The journal does not sell, rent, or misuse personal contact information for unrelated commercial purposes.

Recipients of journal communications may request not to receive further promotional messages from the journal. The journal will make reasonable efforts to respect such requests and to ensure that its communication practices remain professional, respectful, and unobtrusive.

Any announcement regarding calls for papers, special issues, publication opportunities, indexing information, publication charges, or journal policies must be consistent with the information officially displayed on the journal website. If there are changes to journal policies, fees, indexing status, publication frequency, or editorial procedures, the journal will update the relevant information transparently.

Through this policy, Journal of Islamic Mubādalah ensures that its direct marketing practices support responsible scholarly communication, uphold publication ethics, avoid misleading information, and protect authors and readers from inappropriate solicitation. The journal is committed to promoting its publications and academic activities in accordance with principles of transparency, integrity, professionalism, and responsible open-access publishing.