SAGE Open

SAGE Open is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic mega journal.[1] It is the "first broad spectrum open access title aimed specifically at the behavioral and social sciences communities".[2]

SAGE Open
DisciplineHumanities, social science, behavioural sciences
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History2011-present
Publisher
FrequencyUpon acceptance
Yes
LicenseCC-BY
2.032 (SSCI), 1.900 (Scopus CiteScore) (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4SAGE Open
Indexing
ISSN2158-2440
LCCN2010202574
OCLC no.827827284
Links

It was established in May 2011[3] and is published by SAGE Publications. The charge to authors (APC) was initially free, then US$99, but from mid 2015 this went to $395.[4] By 2019 it was $480, followed by an increase to $800 later that year following the journal's acceptance into Web of Science.[5] As of 1 January 2023, the APC is $1,500.[5]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus,[6] the Social Science Citation Index with an impact factor of 2.032, DOAJ and ERIC.[7]

References

  1. Davis, Phil. "SAGE Open: Open Access Publishing Comes to the Social Sciences, Humanities", The Scholarly Kitchen, 22 November 2010. Retrieved on 15 July 2014.
  2. Bianchini, Laurence. "One size does not fit all. Exciting times for Open Access as PeerJ announces second round of funding", My Science Work, 10 July 2014. Retrieved on 15 July 2014.
  3. Jump, Paul. "Sage cuts price of open-access journal", Times Higher Education, 24 January 2013. Retrieved on 15 July 2014.
  4. "SAGE Open | SAGE Publications Inc". 25 October 2015. Archived from the original on 2018-09-27.
  5. "SAGE Open". 25 October 2015.
  6. "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  7. Journal indexing and metrics


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