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SAGE Open Medicine

SAGE Open Medicine


eISSN: 20503121 | ISSN: 20503121 | Current volume: 11 | Current issue: 1 Frequency: Yearly

Sage Open Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research and review articles in medicine and health sciences. Please see the Aims and Scopes tab for further information.

Journal Highlights

  • Global visibility due to international audience of multidisciplinary researchers.
  • Official Impact Factor is 2.3 (ESCI), CiteScore is 3.5.
  • Gold open access journal: all articles are made freely available online on our website and on PubMedCentral.
  • Rigorous peer review and decision making with high standards of publication.
  • Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC).
  • Reviewers get credit for their work via journal partnership with Clarivate Reviewer Recognition (formerly Publons).

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement

Sage Open Medicine promotes inclusive, open science that reflects the disciplinary, human, and geographic diversity of the medical research community.

Diversity as a core value embodies inclusiveness, mutual respect, and multiple perspectives.

We welcome editors, editorial board members, peer reviewers and authors from all backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, nationalities, races, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, mental or physical (dis)abilities, ages, career stages, socioeconomic status or any other individual status.

We are committed to continually improving our editorial and review processes whilst playing our part in eradicating bias and inequality in all forms.

Submission Information

Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sageopenmedicine.

Please see the Submission Guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.

APC Information

Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons licence. The APC for this journal is $2,100 USD.

Members of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation will receive a 45% discount on the APC.

The APC is payable when a manuscript is accepted for publication after peer review before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.

Contact

Please direct any enquiries to som@sagepub.co.uk.

 

Criteria for Publication

Our goal is to publish research done well. This means we look for research that adds to the academic record, either as novel or corroborative evidence, and adheres to ethical standards, uses robust methodologies that are transparent and reproducible, and uses appropriate statistical analyses to ensure clear, credible, and trustworthy results. Sage Open Medicine evaluates manuscripts based on how the research was conducted and reported.

  • All manuscripts:
  • are subject to single-blind peer review (comments from at least two external peer reviewers).
  • The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable.

Scope

The Editors are looking for original research and review articles across all areas of medicine and health sciences. We will consider replication studies and negative/null results studies.

We welcome manuscripts across the following areas of medicine and health sciences:

Allergy/Immunology                                            

Anaesthesia/Pain

Cardiovascular

Critical Care/ Emergency Medicine

Dentistry

Dermatology

Diabetes/Endocrinology

Epidemiology/Public Health

Gastroenterology/Hepatology

Geriatrics/Gerontology

Haematology

Health economics and outcomes research

Immunology

Infectious Diseases

Mental Health/Psychiatry

Nephrology

Neurology

Nursing
 
Obstetrics/Gynaecology

Oncology

Ophthalmology

Orthopaedics/Rehabilitation/Occupational Therapy

Otolaryngology

Palliative Medicine

Pathology

Pharmacoepidemiology/Drug safety

Psychopharmacology

Radiology

Respiratory Medicine

Rheumatology

Sports Medicine

Surgery

Toxicology

Urology

Women's Health

We publish original clinical research (randomized controlled trials, observational studies); Preclinical research (in vitro studies, animal studies, in silico studies); Systematic reviews and meta-analyses; Narrative/scoping/topics reviews; Case reports/series.

We do not publish the following research:

  • Alternative and complementary medicine
Editor
Ashima Sinha SAGE Publishing, India
Cardiology
Piotr Adamski Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Kwok Leung Ong University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Norlea Sukor Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Pulmonary Medicine
Kristina Bailey University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA
Nikoletta Rovina Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'Sotiria' Hospital, Greece
Gastroenterology
Robert Benamouzig Avicenne Hospital, Paris-13 University, Bobigny, France
Ronnie Fass Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Geriatric Medicine
Merryn Gott University of Auckland, New Zealand
Roy Soiza NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK
Hematology
Karl-Anton Kreuzer, MD University of Cologne, Germany
Internal Medicine
Vasilios Athyros Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Neurology
Myla Goldman University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Chris McGuigan St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Oncology
Dechao Feng West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Maxine Sun University of Montreal Health Center, Canada
Ophthalmology
Michael Stewart Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Endocrinology
Richard Quinton Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Toxicology
A Wallace Hayes Michigan State University and University of South Florida, USA
Kai Savolainen NanoReflections Oy, Finland
Urology
Mohamad Abou Chakra Sorbonne Université, Paris, France and Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
Advisory Board
Sylvain Lanthier Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Canada
Marianne Lisby Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Mark Meadowcroft Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA
William Novick University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
  • Clarivate Analytics: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • Google Scholar: h-5 index - 11, h-5 median - 13
  • ProQuest
  • PubMed
  • PubMed Central (PMC)
  • Scopus
  • Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.