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

Discipline	Humanities, social science, behavioural sciences
Language	English
Publication details
History	2011-present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Upon acceptance
Open access	Yes
License	CC-BY
Impact factor	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
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

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]