SAGE Open
Last updated ISSN 2158-2440
SAGE Open is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is open access. The article processing charge is $1,600.
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What it publishes
Recent work in SAGE Open concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2158-2440 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $1,600 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 10,432 |
| Publishing since | 2011 |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/sage-open |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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