Academic journal
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
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
^ 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.
^ a b "SAGE Open" . October 25, 2015.
^ "Content overview" . Scopus . Elsevier . Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
^ Journal indexing and metrics
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