Presentation by Charles Choe at the Highwire Meeting 2012

1. SAGE Open &
Open Access at SAGE
Will Schweitzer
Senior Editor, Journals
Los Angeles | London | New Delhi
Singapore | Washington DC

2. 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

4. Submission Stats
SAGE Open Total
• Data as of October 11, 2012
Submissions 1264 • Publishing 2-3 articles a week
Accepted 145 • Rate of publication has increased
Published 121
Discipline Submissions Total
• 10 broad subject areas Published
• 81 sub-disciplines Education 254 31
• Top five subjects
Psychology 184 19
• Education, Psychology,
Sociology, Communication, Sociology 116 19
and Management Communication 107 7
•46% acceptance rate
Management 102 13

5. 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

6. New Open Access Journals
● Engineering (Accepting submissions)
● Medicine
● Medical Case Reports