Sage has been independent since day one, and our independence is guaranteed for the long term. When our founder, Sara Miller McCune, transferred control of the company to a group of trustees, she ensured that our independence and mission of building bridges to knowledge were protected indefinitely.
At Sage, building bridges to knowledge means connecting people, ideas, and evidence so learning and research can thrive. It’s how we stay focused on what matters, shaping how we publish, partner, and make decisions that strengthen education and scholarship. This report is a snapshot of the work we accomplished in 2025.
Our mission drives our progress
In an era shaped by misinformation and rapidly evolving AI, our mission keeps us focused. We invest in critical thinking and champion research impact, helping evidence travel further into policy, practice, and public understanding.
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Our mission in action
With progress comes responsibility: to our community, to scholarship, and to the planet. We continue to put our purpose into action by standing for academic freedom, safeguarding research integrity, and reducing our environmental impact.
Our mission is powered by people
See what’s in this year's report
Teaching critical thinking
We believe critical thinking is an essential life skill that is naturally intertwined with social and behavioral science. We bake critical thinking into every service and product we offer.
2025 saw a fourth edition of Katherine and Randolph Pherson’s Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence, and a brand-new text by Paula Beesley, The Critical Thinking Toolkit, a guide for learners to think, learn and write critically in university.
Thoughtful innovation
We provide trusted resources and practical guidance to help educators navigate AI-driven change confidently, ensuring classroom innovation is grounded in evidence, ethics, and impact.
Our AI and Pedagogy white paper offers specific suggestions on deploying AI and generative AI to enhance human development and critical thinking, rather than “hollow out” the underlying skills that allowed the very creation of AI. And a new chat assistant in Sage Research Methods offers tailored, real-time guidance to help students plan and carry out their research projects.
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Highlighting the real-world impact of scholarship
We champion research impact, helping evidence travel beyond citations into policy, practice, and public understanding.
Following the second anniversary of Sage Policy Profiles — a free tool that helps scholars find policy citations of their work — we extended its functionality to surface tailored engagement opportunities from policymakers. We also published a white paper which reveals how much researchers, their peers, and their institutions care about the real-world impact of their work.
Advocating for librarianship
Our commitment to people goes beyond our workforce to those who shape how knowledge is found and understood. In today’s complex information environment, content curators — librarians, specialty journalists, editors, and integrity specialists — play a vital role in helping people ask sharper questions and seek trustworthy answers, all in an effort to increase trust in science. This year, in conjunction with the non-profit Sense about Science, we produced The People’s Case for Curators, a guide urging the public to recognize and honor the often-unseen work of curators.
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