SAGE Open explained

Cover:Journal_cover_SAGE_Open.jpg
Discipline:Humanities, social science, behavioural sciences
Abbreviation:SAGE Open
Publisher:SAGE Publications
Frequency:Upon acceptance
History:2011-present
Openaccess:Yes
License:CC-BY
Impact:2.032 (SSCI), 1.900 (Scopus CiteScore)
Impact-Year:2021
Website:http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202037/title
Link1:http://sgo.sagepub.com/latest
Link1-Name:Online access
Link2:http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/by/year
Link2-Name:Online archive
Oclc:827827284
Lccn:2010202574
Eissn:2158-2440

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]

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.

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]

Notes and 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. Web site: SAGE Open | SAGE Publications Inc. https://web.archive.org/web/20180927080141/https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/sage-open. 2018-09-27. 25 October 2015 .
  5. Web site: 25 October 2015 . SAGE Open .
  6. Web site: Content overview . . Scopus . 4 May 2015.
  7. https://journals.sagepub.com/metrics/SGO Journal indexing and metrics