For Authors

We are committed to supporting our authors to ensure their work reaches the widest possible audience and achieves the maximum possible impact. Publish your research with SAGE and you will benefit from high visibility, dissemination and exposure of your research. View a complete list of SAGE journals from which you can click through to a journal’s page on our website to learn more about its aims and scope, and read the manuscript submission guidelines.

Have you visited the SAGE SAGE Journal Author Gateway? Here you'll find information on the entire journal article publishing process at SAGE, from why you should submit your work to a SAGE journal, to what happens after your article is accepted. Also included are tips on how you can maximize the readership of your article and encourage citations.

Publish with SAGE and your article will benefit from:

• Guaranteed global access. Our journals are available to hundreds of thousands of researchers and practitioners, via academic, government and corporate institutions all over the world, including the developing world through a range of initiatives.

• Inclusion in highly ranked and cited journals. The majority of SAGE journals are ranked in the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® and are highly ranked in their discipline categories.

• OnlineFirst publication. Articles are now published online ahead of the print version in many SAGE journals.

• Comprehensive abstracting and indexing coverage. Our titles have strong coverage in the major indexes, including MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, SCOPUS, and more.

• Targeted international marketing. Our marketing activity will drive users to journal content across the SAGE Journals platform encouraging greater usage and citation of articles.

We want to make it as simple as possible for you to submit your article to a SAGE journal. As a SAGE author you can benefit from:

• Easy online manuscript submission – Submit and track the progress of your paper online via SAGE track, powered by ScholarOne's Manuscripts.

• Fast publication – Our journals strive to offer fast turnaround times from submission to editorial decision.

• Expert peer-review – Our editorial boards implement rigorous and thorough peer-review.

• Quality assurance – Our editorial staff pays the highest attention to your article as it goes through the peer-review and publication process.

• A number of Open Access options:
  
  

  SAGE now offers authors of primary research articles in a number of biomedical journals the option to make them freely available upon publication on SAGE Journals. The 'SAGE Choice' publishing option enables authors to comply with new funding body requirements, (for example those now in place from the  Wellcome Trust), and ensures that relevant journals are compliant with NIH/Wellcome Trust and other grant funder requirements. To find out more click here.
  

  - social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. SAGE Open seeks to be the world's premier open access outlet for academic research.  It will publish peer-reviewed, 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. To find out more and submit your article to this journal click here.
  

  SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research is a partnership between SAGE and Hindawi Publishing Corporation to jointly publish a collection of open access journals on a variety of subjects in science, technology, and medicine. To find out more visit www.sage-hindawi.com.