| Cover: | Journal_cover_SAGE_Open.jpg |
| Discipline: | Humanities, social science, behavioural sciences |
| Abbreviation: | SAGE Open |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Frequency: | Upon acceptance |
| History: | 2011-present |
| Openaccess: | Yes |
| License: | CC-BY |
| Impact: | 2.032 (SSCI), 1.900 (Scopus CiteScore) |
| Impact-Year: | 2021 |
| Website: | http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202037/title |
| Link1: | http://sgo.sagepub.com/latest |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Link2: | http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/by/year |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
| Oclc: | 827827284 |
| Lccn: | 2010202574 |
| Eissn: | 2158-2440 |
Sage Open is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic mega journal.[1] It is the "first broad spectrum open access title aimed specifically at the behavioral and social sciences communities".[2]
It was established in May 2011[3] and is published by SAGE Publications. The charge to authors (APC) was initially free, then US$99, but from mid 2015 this went to $395.[4] By 2019 it was $480, followed by an increase to $800 later that year following the journal's acceptance into Web of Science.[5] As of 1 January 2023, the APC is $1,500.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus,[6] the Social Science Citation Index with an impact factor of 2.032, DOAJ and ERIC.[7]