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| Discipline | Humanities, social science, behavioural sciences |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2011-present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Upon acceptance |
| Yes | |
| License | CC-BY |
| 2.032 (SSCI), 1.900 (Scopus CiteScore) (2021) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | SAGE Open |
| Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 2158-2440 |
| LCCN | 2010202574 |
| 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 20113 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
References
- Davis, Phil. "SAGE Open: Open Access Publishing Comes to the Social Sciences, Humanities", The Scholarly Kitchen, 22 November 2010. Retrieved on 15 July 2014.
- 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.
- Jump, Paul. "Sage cuts price of open-access journal", Times Higher Education, 24 January 2013. Retrieved on 15 July 2014.
- "SAGE Open | SAGE Publications Inc". October 25, 2015. Archived from the original on September 27, 2018.
- "SAGE Open". October 25, 2015.
- "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- Journal indexing and metrics