Unrestricted access to medical research articles

SAGE Open Medicine is an open access journal that publishes robust medical research. It publishes online only and does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance.

Since publishing their first papers in the summer of 2013, SAGE Open Medicine and its sister journal, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, have grown rapidly and are now firmly established as a key part of the journal literature in their field.

Authors who have published in SAGE Open Medicine and SAGE Open Medical Case Reports rate the journals highly. In a recent survey:

• All rated the value of peer review comments to be fair, good or excellent;

• 86% found the time to first decision to be excellent or good;

• All authors found time from acceptance to online publication to be good or excellent;

• All reported that they would publish in the journals again.

Submitted papers undergo rigorous peer review, and the editorial team and the reviewers encourage a collaborative process with authors in order to facilitate the publication of high-quality articles. To ensure that manuscripts are thoroughly and fairly reviewed, they are assessed by at least two experts in the relevant field.

The quality of papers published in SAGE Open Medicine is strengthened by our reviewers, who provide valuable constructive criticism to authors and help to enhance the presentation and interpretation of research. The input of all our reviewers is very much appreciated by both the journal team and the authors; therefore, we would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our reviewers for their time and dedication.

The individuals listed below have provided expert opinion on manuscripts submitted to SAGE Open Medicine from launch up until the end of 2014.

In order to further highlight the valuable work of the reviewers of SAGE Open Medicine and SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, the journals will be part of a scheme to help reviewers to record, showcase and verify their peer review activities via Publons. Full details can be found at https://publons.com/. This service is provided to give our reviewers validated credit for all their commitment and hard work in facilitating a fundamental part of the scholarly communication process. We are excited to be part of this venture and look forward to hearing your feedback on this new initiative.

• Abdelrahim, Mohamed

• Abend, NS

• Abouelfadle, Amal

• Addo, O Yaw

• Adler, Gregory H

• Aggarwal, Bharat Bl

• Agras, Stewart

• Ahonkhai, AA

• Alicea-Alvarez, Norma

• Aly, EH

• Amanatkar, Hamid Reza

• Amann, Stephen

• Andersson, Ola

• Ansa, Vic

• Aricò, Arianna

• Aroasio, Emiliano

• Asrar Ul Haq, M

• Assari, Shervin

• Atalay, B

• Athyros, Vasilios

• Bakir, Ihsan

• Barnes, Margaux

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• Bernal, Jose M

• Berry, Tricia M

• Beyer, John

• Bidwai, AS

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• Blanco-Centurion, Carlos

• Bliwise, Donald

• Bobek, Vladimir

• Bondi, Mark

• Bonham, Jim

• Bories, Tamara

• Borz, Bogdan

• Brady, S

• Brand, Serge

• Brenner, I

• Brooks, Joanna

• Buckley, FP

• Bungay, Kathy

• Burr, Robert

• Came, Heather

• Canpolat, Nur

• Capistrant, Benjamin

• Carbonneau, Helene

• Casati, V

• Castelino, Ronald

• Chambers, JB

• Chertok, Ilana

• Chiang, Chih-Kang

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• Choudhary, Pratik

• Chouillard, EK

• Chung, WY

• Cicolini, Giancarlo

• Clancy, Carolyn

• Coll-Fernandez, Roser

• Conde-Estevez, David

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• Constantinides, Panayotis P

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• Cooper, Richard

• Correa, Pelayo

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• David, MC

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• De Rezende, Márcia Uchôa

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• Eggers, Kai

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• El-Mazny, Akmal

• Elsaesser, EL

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• Engberg, Sandra

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• Flexon, Jamie

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• Ha, Hyunjung

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• Hale, Claire

• Hall, Lynne

• Han, Jin

• Hausenloy, Derek

• Hausmann, Markus

• Hayes, A Wallace

• Hegde, Shantala

• Henry, Michelle

• Heymann, AD

• Hochwallner, H

• Hökerberg, Yara Hahr

• Hoogendijk, Arjan

• Hsieh, I-Chang

• Hu, Guoqing

• Husser, Oliver

• Hwang, Jin-Bok

• Ignacio Arraras, Juan

• Indrio, Flavia

• Ishii, H

• Jagannathan, S

• Jameson, Michael

• Jankowitz, Rachel

• Javaheri, Sean

• Jehan, Frederic

• Jiang, Zhi-Wei

• Johnson, Ari

• Jolley, Jeremy

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• Kaltenbach, Karol

• Kanashiro, Alexandre

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• Kesiktas, Nur

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• Kirkpatrick, Andrew W

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• Klein, Pamela

• Klugman, Darren

• Koistinen, Hannu

• Kolovou, Genovefa

• Kones, Richard

• Kousar, Faiza

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• Kuca, Kamil

• Kumar, GV

• Landup, Dejan

• Lang, Bernd

• Lee, Nanette

• Lee, Sun-Young

• Leibert, Eric

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• Leonardi, Salvatore

• Lisby, Marianne

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• Littlewood, Chris

• Love-Osborne, Kathy A

• Lowe, Jean

• Lubrano, Valter

• Lucero, Adam

• Lueck, Paul Christian

• Lumeng, Julie

• Machado, Rodrigo S

• Madsen, MT

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• Mahler, Cornelia

• Manfredi, M

• Manfredini, Fabio

• Mantegazza, Renato

• Marchi, Larissa

• Marek, Karen Dorman

• Martin, EG

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• Mazanov, J

• Mazzocato, Pamela

• McCoubrie, Paul

• McCrae, Julie S

• McLean, Thomas

• Meadowcroft, Mark

• Mégarbane, Bruno

• Mercer, Dr Judith

• Mick, Paul

• Mijakovic, Ivan

• Mikula-Pietrasik, Justyna

• Mineshita, M

• Mirza, Dr Agha Zeeshan

• Mohammadnejad, E

• Mohammed, Bassim

• Mohd Desa, N

• Mokhtar, Hala

• Montenegro Peña, Mercedes

• Moreira, Michel Rodrigues

• Morris, DW

• Moshi, Eneida

• Moum, Torbjorn

• Movahed, MR

• Mulu, Assefa

• Munoz-Zanzi, Claudia

• Murtagh, Bryan

• Muskiet, Frits AJ

• Nagy, Ahmed

• Naylor, Justine

• Neuwelt, Pat

• Nishimura, Reiki

• Null, Donald

• Oie, Gezina

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• Omene, Coral

• O’Reilly, Claire

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• Padilla, Carmencita

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• Parikh, Manish

• Pearce, Gemma

• Pearson, Erin

• Petersen, AK

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• Phillips, KL

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• Pirbudak, Lutfiye

• Pivonello, Rosario

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• Pompeu, JE

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• Puspitasari, Hanni

• Pyrooz, David

• Quinn, Charles

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• Ricci, G

• Richard, Kathy

• Rieder, MD, PhD, Michael

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• Rodgers, Rachel

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• Royall, Donald R

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• Saad, Amr

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• Sadowski, Daniel

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• Salvatore, Silvia

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• Schober, Justine

• Sermet, Catherine

• Shalaby, MS

• Shamshad, Dr Hina

• Shehzad, Abdul

• Shen, L-J

• Shi, Qian

• Shinlapawittayatorn, Krekwit

• Shinoda, Jun

• Shiyanbola, Olayinka

• Sidhu, Kuldip S

• Simms, AD

• Sladana, LJ

• Slade, Herbert B

• Smirk, Cameron L

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• Sousa, Maria Fernanda

• Spacek, M

• Squires, Jane

• Stein, Jörg-Ingolf

• Stevanović, J

• Stipić-Marković, Asja

• Stoddart, Andrew

• Stoto, Michael

• Strom, Joel

• Struzzo, Pierluigi

• Sun, Z

• Tagoe, CE

• Taguchi, Kazuaki

• Tasker, Robert

• Taverner, MG

• Tawonsawatruk, Tulyapruek

• Taylor, Sarah

• Teng, CL

• Tocci, G

• Tokuda, F

• Toya, N

• Trandafirescu, Cristina

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• Tsuruya, K

• Turkmen, K

• Twigg, MJ

• Tziomalos, Kostas

• Ulrich, Silvia

• Vanstone, Meredith

• Villines, Todd C

• Vincent, John

• Volpe, Massimo

• Von Lengerke, Thomas

• Walker, Karen

• Wang, Huayan

• Wang, Zhenghe

• Wasselius, Johan

• Watanabe, T

• Waterson, Patrick

• Wen-Jun, Tu

• Wiggins, Barbara

• Wilke, Sarah

• Williden, Micalla

• Willis, Andrew

• Winchester, David E

• Winkelman, Michael

• Wise, P

• Wolff, W

• Wunder Jr, Elsio

• Xynos, Evaghelos

• Yang, Yuan-Han

• Yang, Zhong-Jin

• Yeager, Catherine

• Yiannakopoulou, E

• Yousif, Nasser

• Yu, Victor

• Zeni, Joseph A

• Zevin, Boris

• Zhao, Hua

• Zingone, Fabiana

• Zolfaghari, B

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