Advertising policy

Advertising Policy

The Journal of Ayurveda and Holistic Medicine (JAHM) maintains a clear separation between advertising and editorial activities. Advertising, sponsorship, or other commercial considerations do not influence editorial decisions, peer review, manuscript acceptance, or published scientific content.

General Principles

  • Editorial Independence: Decisions regarding manuscripts are based solely on scientific and scholarly merit, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, originality, and relevance to the journal's scope. Advertising revenue or commercial relationships have no influence on editorial decisions.

  • Clear Identification: Advertisements must be clearly identifiable as advertising or sponsored content and must be visually distinguishable from editorial and scientific content. Advertisements must not be presented in a manner that could mislead readers into believing they constitute editorial endorsement.

  • Accuracy and Ethical Standards: Advertisements must be lawful, truthful, responsible, and not misleading. Claims concerning health products, medicines, devices, treatments, or services should be consistent with applicable regulatory requirements and should not contain unsupported or deceptive therapeutic claims.

  • Prohibited Advertising: JAHM does not accept advertisements promoting tobacco or nicotine products, recreational drugs, illegal products or services, unapproved or unlawfully marketed medicines or treatments, or products and services that may pose an unacceptable risk to health or conflict with the journal's ethical standards.

  • Alcohol Advertising: JAHM does not accept advertisements for alcoholic beverages.

  • Health Products and Treatments: Advertisements for medicines, medical devices, Ayurvedic products, dietary supplements, healthcare services, or therapeutic interventions must comply with applicable laws and regulatory requirements. Acceptance of an advertisement does not constitute scientific validation or endorsement by JAHM.

  • Independence from Editorial Content: Advertisers and sponsors have no influence over manuscript selection, peer review, editorial decisions, publication timing, editorial policies, or the content of articles.

  • Placement: Advertising should not be placed in a manner that could reasonably be interpreted as influencing, endorsing, or being directly associated with the conclusions of a particular article.

Review and Approval of Advertisements

All advertisements are subject to review and approval by the journal's publisher or designated administrative/advertising personnel before publication.

The editorial decision-making team should remain independent from commercial advertising decisions wherever practicable.

JAHM reserves the right to reject, remove, suspend, or withdraw an advertisement that does not comply with this policy, applicable laws or regulations, or the journal's ethical standards.

Advertiser Responsibility

Advertisers are responsible for ensuring the accuracy, legality, regulatory compliance, and substantiation of claims made in their advertisements.

Acceptance of advertising by JAHM does not relieve the advertiser of its legal or regulatory responsibilities.

No Endorsement

The publication of an advertisement in JAHM does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, warranty, or approval by JAHM, its publisher, editors, Editorial Board, reviewers, or affiliated organizations of the advertised product, service, company, or claims.

Conflicts of Interest

Any commercial relationship that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the journal's editorial activities must be appropriately managed and, where relevant, disclosed.

Advertising arrangements must not compromise the independence, integrity, objectivity, or credibility of JAHM or its editorial and peer-review processes.