Sage Open Medicine

Sage Open Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original translational, preclinical and clinical research, systematic and narrative reviews, meta-analyses, protocol studies and validation studies across all areas of medicine.

Please see the aims and scope tab for further information.

Journal Highlights

• Global visibility due to international audience of multidisciplinary researchers.

• Official Impact Factor is 2.1 (ESCI) (quarter 2), CiteScore is 4.3.

• Indexed in: Clarivate Analytics Emerging Citations Index Source (ESCI), PubMed Central (PMC), PubMed, Scopus, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
  
  
• Turnaround times (July 2025): Submitted to first decision (i.e. peer reviewer comments to authors) = 51 days; Submitted to accepted = 112 days.

• 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 $2,250 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.

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