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SAGE Open

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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

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.[5]

Abstracting and indexing

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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

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  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". October 25, 2015. Archived from the original on September 27, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "SAGE Open". October 25, 2015.
  6. ^ "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  7. ^ Journal indexing and metrics
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