''SAGE Open'' is an open access, peer-reviewed,

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'', 24 January 2013. Retrieved on 15 July 2014. and is published by SAGE Publications. The charge to authors ( APC) was initially free, then US$99, but from mid 2015 this went to $395. By 2019 it was $480 but without warning, a fee of US$800 was announced in that year just after the journal was accepted to the Web of Science.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, the Social Science Citation Index with an impact factor of 1.356, DOAJ and ERIC.Journal indexing and metrics
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References

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* SAGE Publishing academic journals Multidisciplinary academic journals Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals Publications established in 2011 Continuous journals {{humanities-journal-stub