Advertising Policy

The Journal of Advances in Computer and Communication Technology (JACCT), published by the Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI), maintains a clear separation between scholarly editorial activity and any advertising, sponsorship, or commercial promotional activity associated with the journal. This policy describes the principles governing the consideration, presentation, and oversight of advertising in order to safeguard the integrity and independence of scholarly communication.

Editorial Independence

Advertising or sponsorship must not influence manuscript submission, editor or reviewer appointments, external peer review, editorial decisions, acceptance, rejection, publication priority, or the interpretation of published findings. Manuscripts are evaluated on scholarly merit, originality, methodological quality, relevance to the Aims and Scope, and compliance with the journal’s publication ethics requirements. Advertising revenue does not confer any preferential editorial treatment.

Identification and Separation of Advertising

If JACCT accepts advertising, paid promotional content must be clearly identifiable as advertising or sponsored material and visually or contextually distinguishable from peer-reviewed articles, editorials, journal notices, and independent scholarly content. Advertising must not be presented in a manner that could reasonably imply journal endorsement of a product, service, organisation, or claim.

Acceptable Advertising and Content Standards

The journal may consider advertising relevant to academic research, scholarly publishing, professional education, computing, communication technology, research tools, and related professional activities. Any proposed material should be lawful, accurate, appropriately substantiated, and consistent with the journal’s academic purpose. JACCT may decline or withdraw material that is misleading, discriminatory, deceptive, unlawful, inappropriate for its readership, or otherwise inconsistent with scholarly integrity.

Advertisers remain responsible for the truthfulness of claims and for compliance with applicable laws, intellectual property rights, privacy requirements, and advertising standards. Publication of an advertisement does not constitute certification or validation of the advertised product or service by JACCT, its editors, reviewers, or publisher.

Conflicts of Interest and Oversight

Commercial relationships and potential conflicts of interest must not compromise editorial judgement. Where a proposed advertisement creates a real or perceived conflict with an editorial decision, the journal should manage the concern independently of the manuscript evaluation process. This approach is consistent with the principles of transparent scholarly publishing set out by COPE and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

Advertising Placement and Reader Privacy

Any advertising placement should preserve the readability, accessibility, and integrity of journal webpages and published scholarly content. Advertising arrangements must comply with the journal’s published privacy practices and should not enable advertisers to access confidential manuscript, reviewer, author correspondence, or editorial decision information.

Relationship to Fees and Journal Operations

Advertising and promotional revenue, where applicable, are separate from author-facing Article Processing Charges and Waivers. Payment of any advertising or sponsorship fee cannot guarantee manuscript acceptance, favourable peer review, citation, indexing, or editorial preference. The journal’s publishing model and author charges are presented through its Gold Open Access policy and article processing charge information.

Enquiries and Accountability

Questions or concerns about advertising or potentially misleading promotional material associated with JACCT may be directed to the journal through its Contact page. Concerns involving the scholarly record are handled independently under the journal’s publication ethics and editorial procedures.