SAGE is an international, leading publisher of 70 titles in Engineering, Materials Science and Computing. The collection includes the 18 journals of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers alongside other essential research from a diverse range of subjects including rehabilitation and assistive technologies, mechanical engineering and polymer materials. The collection now features the leading open access journal in its field, Advances in Mechanical Engineering.
Adherence to issue due dates is imperative to ensure on-time issue publication, as this can affect your journal’s institutional subscriptions, impact factor, and subscription revenue. Please remember the following for smooth sailing through issue production:
Your journal has a contractual number of pages allowed per volume. Maintaining awareness of your page usage (both when accepting manuscripts and planning issues) is important for optimizing publication schedules and minimizing extra costs. Exceeding your page budget can be costly and we strive to help you keep your journal within its page budget:
In matters relating to your journal, you may need to contact several people at Sage.
To route your questions, comments, suggestions, or needs to the appropriate person, please use this guide.
I’m having trouble transmitting an accepted paper from Sage Track to production.
Once a manuscript is accepted in Sage Track, it goes through three tasks—completion and approval of the contributor form, completion of the production checklist, and the assign to batch task. Manuscripts must be assigned to the Sage Production batch and exported to reach production. For further assistance, contact the Peer Review Specialist.
To submit a journal launch proposal, please download our Proposal Guidelines for a New Journal launch at Sage.
Authors, Editors and Societies in North America should contact:
Eric Moran
Vice President, Research
Authors, Editors and Societies in UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa should contact:
Special or themed issues can be a great way to focus attention on a topic of crucial interest.
A good special issue can enhance the profile of the journal, attract top authors, and support usage and citations.
Five benefits of publishing special issues:
Quantitative metrics are important in the evaluation of scholarly research as universities, governments, and funding bodies try to find ways to make their hiring, funding, and investment decisions based on measurable criteria. This has had a significant effect on journals publishing, with the well-known Impact Factor functioning as a ready-made, albeit controversial, indicator of the quality and significance of a published piece of work.
Editorial boards are an essential and valuable resource for journals, but members typically have other responsibilities and often sit on the editorial boards of competing journals. How do you make sure you are using your board effectively?
Peer review is central to the process of scholarly publishing, providing authors with valuable feedback on their work, acting as a quality control and informing the editor’s decision-making process.