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Country: United
States
Review date: 2021.04.22 Updated: 2021.08.08
SJR Quartile: SJRQ2
WOS/ISI:
ISSN: 21582440
Publisher: Sage
Contact Email: sageopen@sagepub.com
APC: An article-processing charge (APC) of $1,200 (from March 15, 2021 onward) will be payable on acceptance if the manuscript is accepted after peer review. Prior to this in 2020 it had been $800.
Editor(s): Section editors.
Beall Listed: NO
Scopus Discontinued List: NO
Frequency: Ongoing. Articles assigned numbers instead of pages.
Template: Manuscript template
Style: Up to
you.
Copyright: YES
Similarity threshold: Not stated.
Submission process: Highly complex online system.
Journal Web Page Comments:
SAGE Open is
a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from SAGE that publishes
original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format.
Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and
the humanities.
AJR comments: “SAGE Open utilizes a double-blind peer-review
process and is committed to delivering high quality, fast peer-review for your paper. Submitted articles may be checked with
duplication-checking software” (cutoff score is not stated). The detail on Sage Open’s site is a bit
overwhelming and the word ‘fast’ is not a word Sage Open’s folks understand the
meaning of. Also, be prepared to spend some time reading their words of wisdom
before submission. In the past, submission review was fair with education papers
seemingly easier and quicker to get to acceptance. However, in a submission in January 2021, the online
process has grown even more complex. We think of it as an author intelligence
test. You must also make sure you validate your submission with your ORCID or
the submission will not advance (this is new). Also, their ethics clearance
fields in the submission requires the author type in information (this is also
new), or the submission will not advance. If you are smart enough to get
through the highly complex submission screens, pass the Sage Open submission
intelligence test, and not die of old age waiting for some human to approve the
‘submission checklist’ (the last paper in February 2021 took 6 weeks to
complete the ‘checklist’), you might get your paper published…..later than
sooner. Basically, Sage Open has gone from an innovative, pleasant and reasonably priced author
experience to a highly stressful, terribly slow, bureaucratic, and now very
expensive (Sage Open started with an APC of $99 USD) academic journal choice.
How sad.
Footnote: In mid-June 2021 Sage Open was sending out e-mails to authors in their database proclaiming their amazing virtues and longevity (10 years). This e-mail can be viewed here. However, as stated above, riding on past laurels does nothing for authors submitting papers today. And from my extensive experience with Sage Open, moving back to the basics in which they achieved their statistics would be a wise move. I also think they need to look up the definition of the word 'fast' in a dictionary or remove it from their webpages. I also wonder if the ever increasing complexity of their submission process and the overwhelming need for an author to have legal word expertise within the process is intentional or not, as it increases consternation to an author who uses English as a second or third language (or even a native speaker with a PhD).
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