Los Angeles | London | New DelhiSingapore | Washington DC

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