Sage Journals EMEA : Editor & Peer Review

At Sage we work closely with our editors and publishing partners to ensure the strategic editorial development of the journals we publish.

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Infographic: Your Paper and Peer Review

Sage takes issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice.

See Sage's policy on ChatGPT and Generative AI here

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Many journals in the Sage portfolio use Sage Track. Sage Track is the Sage-branded ScholarOne online submission and peer review system (owned by Clarivate Analytics). The system allows all peer review related items in a journal to be housed in one space for editors, reviewers, and authors. Once registered on the journal’s Sage Track website, you will be able to access all invitations and previously reviewed manuscripts.

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EDITOR GATEWAY

Find a wealth of information on how to manage your journal and ensure publication of high quality papers. 

EDITOR FAQ

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Peer review brings academic research to publication in the following ways:

• Evaluation – Peer review is an effective form of research evaluation to help select the highest quality articles for publication.
• Integrity – Peer review ensures the integrity of the publishing process and the scholarly record. Reviewers are independent of journal publications and the research being conducted.
• Quality – The filtering process and revision advice improve the quality of the final research article as well as offering the author new insights into their research methods and the results that they have compiled. Peer review gives authors access to the opinions of experts in the field who can provide support and insight.

You can learn more in this explainer from the Social Science Space.

Types of Peer Review

• Single-anonymized – the name of the reviewer is hidden from the author.
• Double-anonymized – names are hidden from both reviewers and the authors.
• Triple-anonymized – names are hidden from authors, reviewers, and the editor.
• Open peer review comes in many forms. At Sage we offer a form of open peer review on four journals via our Transparent Peer Review program, whereby the reviews are published alongside the article. The names of the reviewers may also be published, depending on the reviewers’ preference.
• Post publication peer review can offer useful interaction and a discussion forum for the research community. This form of peer review is not usual or appropriate in all fields.

To learn more about the different types of peer review, see page 14 of The Nuts and Bolts of Peer Review from Sense about Science.

Please double check the manuscript submission guidelines of the journal you are reviewing in order to ensure that you understand the method of peer review being used.

Video Resources

August 2024

New Open Access Journal from APS and Sage Expands Publishing Opportunity for Psychological Scientists

Applications Now Open for Role of Inaugural Editor

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) and Sage announce the launch of Advances in Psychological Science Open, a fully open access journal that will publish high-quality empirical, technical, theoretical, and review articles, across the full range of areas and topics in psychological science.

APS has launched a search for the inaugural editor of the journal with the goal of having an editor appointed to begin work in January 2025, with first acceptance of manuscripts in mid- 2025.

Open Call Here

July 2024

Upcoming webinar:

Advance your career through journal publishing

Our next How to Do Research and Get Published webinar will go live on August 7th. It focuses on the following topic ‘How to collaborate across paradigms: Embedding culture in mixed methods designs’.

Involving more than one researcher or research team in a single study can easily get complicated. Interviewers who must work with multiple cultures and languages need to be included, or researchers of different discipline must work together to form a cohesive paper. This type of cross-cultural mixed-methods research is vital to knowledge generation and is a topic which our panellists are very familiar with. If you’re looking for guidance on how to conduct this kind of research, and get it published, then register now using the link below!

REGISTER HERE

June 2024

Award-Winning Sage Policy Profiles Adds Nearly 3 Million Data Sources Highlighting Researcher Impact

Six months after release, Sage Policy Profiles has helped over 14,000 researchers find where their work is cited in policy documents globally and for free!