SAGE Open

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| discipline = Humanities, social science, behavioural sciences

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| abbreviation = SAGE Open

| publisher = SAGE Publications

| country =

| 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

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| OCLC = 827827284

| LCCN = 2010202574

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| eISSN = 2158-2440

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Sage Open is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic mega journal.Davis, Phil. [http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/11/22/sage-open/ "SAGE Open: Open Access Publishing Comes to the Social Sciences, Humanities"], The Scholarly Kitchen, 22 November 2010. Retrieved on 15 July 2014. It is the "first broad spectrum open access title aimed specifically at the behavioral and social sciences communities".Bianchini, Laurence. [https://www.mysciencework.com/news/11516/one-size-does-not-fit-all-exciting-times-for-open-access-as-peerj-announces-second-round-of-funding/ "One size does not fit all. Exciting times for Open Access as PeerJ announces second round of funding"], My Science Work, 10 July 2014. Retrieved on 15 July 2014.

It was established in May 2011Jump, Paul. [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/sage-cuts-price-of-open-access-journal/2001121.article/ "Sage cuts price of open-access journal"], Times Higher Education, 24 January 2013. Retrieved on 15 July 2014. 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.{{Cite web|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/sage-open|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927080141/https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/sage-open|archive-date=2018-09-27|title=SAGE Open | SAGE Publications Inc|date=25 October 2015 }} By 2019 it was $480, followed by an increase to $800 later that year following the journal's acceptance into Web of Science.{{cite web |date=25 October 2015 |title=SAGE Open |url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/sage-open#description}} As of 1 January 2023, the APC is $1,500.