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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 1965 (1965) |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Thousand Oaks, California |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Tejeshwar Singh |
| Publication types | Academic books, journals, reference and library products |
| Nonfiction topics | Social science, science, medicine, humanities, technology |
| Imprints | Corwin,CQ Press, Learning Matters,Talis Group, Lean Library andAdam Matthew |
| Official website | sagepub |
Sage Publishing, formerlySAGE Publications, is an Americanindependentacademic publishing company, founded in 1965 inNew York City bySara Miller McCune and now based in theNewbury Park neighborhood ofThousand Oaks, California.
Sage Publishing has offices located across North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. InNorth America, Sage Publishing has offices in Los Angeles, Washington DC, andToronto. The European operations are headquartered inLondon, United Kingdom. In the Asia Pacific region, Sage Publishing has established offices in Melbourne, Australia,India andSingapore.
It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books a year,[1] reference works and electronic products covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. SAGE also owns and publishes under the imprints ofCorwin Press[2] (since 1990),CQ Press[3] (since 2008), Learning Matters[4] (since 2011), andAdam Matthew Digital (since 2012).[5]
SAGE was founded in 1965 inNew York City by Sara Miller (later Sara Miller McCune)[6] withMacmillan Inc. executive George D. McCune as a mentor;[7] the name of the company is an acronym formed from the first letters of their given names.[7] SAGE relocated to Southern California in 1966, after Miller and McCune married; McCune left Macmillan to formally join the company at that time.[7] Sara Miller McCune remained president for 18 years, shifting to board chairmen in 1984 (and still retains the title of executive chairman). The couple continued to develop the company together until George McCune's death in 1990.[8]
In 2008, SAGE along with two other companies, suedGeorgia State University for alleged copyright infringement due to faculty providing excerpts of materials to students.[9]The case concluded in 2020 with the publishing companies losing.[9]
In 2018, SAGE reported a mean 2017gender pay gap of 13.1% for its UK workforce, while the median was 10.3%.[10]
In 2018, SAGE acquired Lean Library, a browser extension and discovery service,[11] which then faced opposition by part of theacademic community for being owned by a for-profit, as opposed toopen data,open source andnon-profit products likeUnpaywall which facilitates usage ofopen access works.[12]
SAGE Publishing was a founding member of theOpen Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) when it was established in 2008.[13] In November 2013, OASPA reviewed SAGE's membership after theJournal of International Medical Research accepted a false and intentionally flawed paper created and submitted by a reporter for the journalScience as part of a "sting" to test the effectiveness of the peer-review processes ofopen access journals(seeWho's Afraid of Peer Review?).[14] SAGE's membership was reinstated at the end of the six month review period following changes to the journal's editorial processes.[15]
In September 2024,Lucina Uddin, a neuroscience professor atUCLA, sued Sage Publishing along with five otheracademic journal publishers in a proposedclass-action lawsuit, alleging that the publishers violatedantitrust law by agreeing not to compete against each other for manuscripts and by denying scholars payment forpeer review services.[16][17]
An academic fraud, that impacted journals published by Sage Publishing, particularly theJournal of Vibration and Control (JVC), was uncovered in July 2014 following a 14-month internal investigation by Sage, which revealed a fake peer-review scam involving hundreds of fraudulent and assumed identities.[18][19]
The scam was orchestrated mainly by Peter Chen, a physicist at theNational Pingtung University of Education (NPUE) in Taiwan. Chen used fake identities and Gmail accounts to pose as university-based scientists, manipulating the peer-review process to ensure favorable reviews for submissions. The scam involved creating a network of papers where the same small group of authors reviewed each other's work and appeared together as co-authors. This practice, known as a "peer review ring," allowed Chen to publish numerous articles with minimal scrutiny. The lack of vetting and the lax editorial policy at JVC, which allowed authors to nominate preferred reviewers without adequate verification, facilitated the scam.[18]
The discovery of the scam led to the retraction of 60 research articles published over four years in JVC. The retractions were a result of Sage's investigation, which found that the authors and reviewers involved in the scam did not respond to verification requests. The Education Minister of Taiwan,Chiang Wei-ling, was also implicated as his name appeared on several of the retracted papers, leading to his resignation.[20] Sage subsequently claimed to have taken steps to ensure compliance with the highest standards of peer review and publication, including conducting additional reviews of their guidance to editors and authors.[18][21]
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Sage is a trading name of
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SAGE hasacquired a number of other companies, including:
One area of concern is the ownership of Lean by SAGE Publications, in contrast to the ownership say of Unpaywall as a project of the open-source ImpactStory, and what this means for users' privacy. The concerns are shared by other libraries implementing Lean.