Direct Marketing

Direct Marketing Policy

The Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences (CJSS) is committed to ensuring that any direct marketing, promotional communication, or manuscript solicitation conducted on behalf of the journal is appropriate, accurate, professional, and ethically sound.

Any invitations to submit manuscripts, participate in special issues, or contribute to the journal are issued only where there is a reasonable academic and disciplinary basis for doing so. Such communication is intended for researchers, authors, reviewers, or editors whose expertise is relevant to the aims and scope of the journal.

CJSS does not engage in misleading, aggressive, excessive, or indiscriminate solicitation practices. The journal does not send deceptive mass correspondence or make inaccurate representations regarding its scope, peer review process, indexing status, acceptance prospects, publication timelines, or publication conditions.

All information provided in direct marketing or solicitation messages about the journal, its publisher, editorial process, open access model, policies, and indexing is expected to be truthful, accurate, and up to date. Communication on behalf of the journal must not mislead authors, readers, reviewers, or other stakeholders.

Direct marketing communication is conducted in a professional and respectful manner. Messages must be relevant to the recipient’s scholarly background or area of expertise, must not be excessive in frequency, and must not place pressure on recipients to submit manuscripts or accept editorial roles.

Any direct marketing or manuscript solicitation activities are independent of editorial decision-making. Receipt of an invitation to submit does not guarantee editorial acceptance, favorable peer review, or publication. All manuscripts submitted to CJSS are evaluated solely on the basis of scholarly merit, relevance to the journal’s scope, methodological quality, and compliance with the journal’s editorial and ethical standards.