SAGE Open Medical Case Reports
Clinical Medicine | Emergency Medicine & Critical Care | Endocrinology & Metabolism
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports (SCO) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes case reports and case series across all areas of medicine and health sciences. Many primary research journals do not publish case reports and case series; however, we believe they are an important part of the evidence base and provide real-world clinical insights that can help physicians to improve patient outcomes. 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 0.6 (ESCI), CiteScore is 0.6.
- Indexed in: Clarivate Analytics Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), PubMed Central (PMC), PubMed, Scopus, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
- This journal a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
- 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 Medical Case Reports promotes inclusive, open science that reflects the disciplinary, human, and geographic diversity of the 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/sageopencasereports
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 article processing charge (APC) for this journal is currently 2000 USD. 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 SOMCR@sagepub.co.uk.
Criteria for Publication
Our goal is to publish research done well. This means we look for cases and case series that add to the academic record, either as novel or corroborative evidence, and adhere to ethical standards of reporting to ensure clear, credible, and trustworthy results. Sage Open Medical Case Reports evaluates manuscripts based on how the research was conducted and reported.
- All manuscripts:
- must comply with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 and the CARE EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines.
- are subject to single-blind peer review (comments from at least two external peer reviewers).
- must follow our publishing policies.
Scope
The Editors are looking for case reports and case series that provide new or corroborative evidence that can enhance clinical practice.
We do not publish cases/case series that are commonplace, and over-reported or cases/case series that are of local interest only and better suited for a local publication.
Sage Open Medical Case Reports welcomes 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
| Vasilios Athyros | Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Kristina Bailey | University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA |
| Robert Benamouzig | Avicenne Hospital, Paris-13 University, Bobigny, France |
| Ronnie Fass | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Myla Goldman | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
| Merryn Gott | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| A Wallace Hayes | Michigan State University and University of South Florida, USA |
| Karl-Anton Kreuzer | University of Cologne, Germany |
| Chris McGuigan | St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland |
| Kwok Leung Ong | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Richard Quinton | Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK |
| Nikoletta Rovina | Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'Sotiria' Hospital, Greece |
| Kai Savolainen | NanoReflections Oy, Finland |
| Yehuda Shoenfeld | Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel |
| Devada Singh-Franco | Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA |
| Roy Soiza | NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK |
| Michael Stewart | Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA |
| Norlea Sukor | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Maxine Sun | University of Montreal Health Center, Canada |
| 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 |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.