SAGE Open Medicine
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.
- Indexed in: Clarivate Analytics Emerging Citations Index Source (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 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:
- must comply with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 and EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines (e.g. CONSORT for randomized, controlled trials, PRISMA for systematic reviews/meta-analyses, STROBE for most observational studies, and ARRIVE for animal studies. https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/care/).
- are subject to single-blind peer review (comments from at least two external peer reviewers).
- must follow our publishing policies.
- 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
| Ashima Sinha | SAGE Publishing, India |
| 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 |
| Kristina Bailey | University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA |
| Nikoletta Rovina | Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'Sotiria' Hospital, Greece |
| Robert Benamouzig | Avicenne Hospital, Paris-13 University, Bobigny, France |
| Ronnie Fass | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Merryn Gott | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Roy Soiza | NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK |
| Karl-Anton Kreuzer, MD | University of Cologne, Germany |
| Vasilios Athyros | Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Myla Goldman | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
| Chris McGuigan | St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland |
| Dechao Feng | West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China |
| Maxine Sun | University of Montreal Health Center, Canada |
| Michael Stewart | Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA |
| Richard Quinton | Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK |
| A Wallace Hayes | Michigan State University and University of South Florida, USA |
| Kai Savolainen | NanoReflections Oy, Finland |
| Mohamad Abou Chakra | Sorbonne Université, Paris, France and Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 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.