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SAGE Open & Open Access at SAGE
Will SchweitzerSenior Editor, Journals
SAGE Open
● Gold open access journal ● First open access journal to
broadly cover the humanities and social sciences
● Launched in January 2011● All content is peer-reviewed
• Each submission assigned an subject expert article editor that solicits at least two reviews
Submission StatsSAGE Open Total
Submissions 1264
Accepted 145
Published 121
Discipline Submissions Total Published
Education 254 31
Psychology 184 19
Sociology 116 19
Communication 107 7
Management 102 13
• Data as of October 11, 2012• Publishing 2-3 articles a week• Rate of publication has
increased
• 10 broad subject areas
• 81 sub-disciplines• Top five subjects
• Education, Psychology, Sociology, Communication, and Management
• 46% acceptance rate
Usage and web traffic
● Full Text Downloads• 117,000 YTD
• 540 downloads per article• 2nd highest download rate of any SAGE journal
• 77th most utilized title from over 670 journals● Web traffic
• 155,000 unique visitors• 5% of traffic from mobile sources• 50,000 visitors or 33% of traffic from Google
• Audience is more diverse than typical SAGE journal
New Open Access Journals
● Engineering (Accepting submissions)
● Medicine● Medical Case Reports