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.
Members of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation will receive a 45% discount on the APC.
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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Criteria for Publication
Our goal is to publish research done well. This means we look for research that adds to the academic record, either as novel or corroborative evidence, and adheres to ethical standards, uses robust methodologies that are transparent and reproducible, and uses appropriate statistical analyses to ensure clear, credible, and trustworthy results. Sage Open Medicine evaluates manuscripts based on how the research was conducted and reported.
- All manuscripts:
- must comply with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 and EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines (e.g. CONSORT for randomized, controlled trials, PRISMA for systematic reviews/meta-analyses, STROBE for most observational studies, and ARRIVE for animal studies).
- are subject to single-blind peer review (comments from at least two external peer reviewers).
- must follow our publishing policies.
- The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable.
Scope
The Editors are looking for original research and review articles across all areas of medicine and health sciences. We will consider replication studies and negative/null results studies.
We welcome manuscripts across the following areas of medicine and health sciences: allergy and immunology, anaesthesia and analgesia, bioinformatics and computational biology, cardiology, cardiovascular medicine, clinical epidemiology, critical care and emergency medicine, dentistry, dermatology, digital health and medical informatics, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, gastroenterology, gene and cell therapy, geriatrics, haematology, health economics and outcomes, hepatology, imaging, men’s health, musculoskeletal, nephrology, neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology, oncology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, paediatrics and neonatology, pathology, pharmacology, psychiatry, radiology, regenerative medicine, respiratory, surgery, urology and women’s health. We also consider papers in the following areas: Pharmacy, diagnostic radiography and imaging, anatomy and physiology, optometry, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, and speech and language therapy.
Manuscript types: original clinical research (randomized controlled trials, observational studies); preclinical research (in vitro studies, animal studies, in silico studies); systematic reviews and meta-analyses; translational research, study protocols, validation studies, narrative/scoping/topics reviews.
We do not publish the following research:
- Alternative and complementary medicine
| Prajakta Mane | Sage Publishing, India. |
| Matteo Martini | Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord, Italy |
| Yehuda Shoenfeld | Sheba Medical Center, Israel |
| Robbert Bipat | University of Suriname, Suriname |
| Anish Zacharia Joseph | Instituto de Quimica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Piotr Adamski | Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland |
| Vasilios Athyros | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Kwok Leung Ong | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Denis Plotnikov | Kazan State Medical University, Russia |
| Xiaohua Douglas Zhang | University of Kentucky, United States |
| Kristina Bailey | University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA |
| Marianne Lisby | Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark |
| Vasudev Ballal | Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India |
| Arun Bhupathi | Vishnu Dental College, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Eduardo Maximiliano Fernández Godoy | University of Chile, Chile |
| Olcay Evliyaoglu | Istanbul University, Turkey |
| Richard Quinton | Newcastle University, United Kingdom |
| Norlea Sukor | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Center, Malaysia |
| Robert Benamouzig | Université Paris, France |
| Ronnie Fass | Case Western Reserve University, United States |
| Vipul Yagnik | Banas Medical College and Research Institute, India |
| Merryn Gott | The University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Roy Soiza | University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Karl-Anton Kreuzer | University of Cologne, Germany |
| Mohamed A. Imam | University of East London, United Kingdom |
| Diana Gómez-Martín | Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico |
| Shady Mahmoud | Croydon University Hospital, United Kingdom |
| Myla Goldman | Virginia Commonwealth University, United States |
| Sylvain Lanthier | Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Canada |
| Chris McGuigan | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Mark Meadowcroft | Pennsylvania State University, United States |
| Kai Savolainen | Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland |
| Dechao Feng | West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China |
| Maxine Sun | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States |
| Michael Stewart | Mayo Clinic Florida, United States, USA |
| Nikoletta Rovina | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece |
| A Wallace Hayes | University of South Florida, United States |
| Che Zin | International Islamic University, Kuantan, Malaysia |
| Chiranjeev Sanyal | College Of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University, Canada |
| Devada Singh-Franco | Nova Southeastern University, Fl, USA |
| Jinhee Lee | Yonsei University, Wonju, South Korea |
| Giuseppe Merola | King’s College London, UK |
| Livio Tarchi | University of Florence, Florence, Italy |
| Or Friedman | Dina Recanati School of Medicine, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel |
| William Novick | University of Tennessee Health Science Center, United States |