Academic and professional publisher SAGE has reported strong performance across its journals portfolio in the 2013 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (Thomson Reuters, 2014).
SAGE continues to experience consistent growth in its coverage in the reports, with 470 JCR-indexed journals. This illustrates a 55 percent increase over the past five years – a 47 percent increase in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and an 85 percent increase in the Science Citation Index (SCI), with SCI having significantly increased as a result of the acquisition of the Royal Society of Medicine’s 28 journals in 2012. SAGE now has more than 200 journals in the top 30 percent of the JCR, with the publisher being marked out as market leader by number of ranked titles in 7 categories including Sociology, interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Urban Studies, Criminology & Penology, Special Education and Applied Psychology.
In this year’s reports, 65 percent of SCI and 55 percent of SSCI SAGE-indexed titles have increased their Impact Factor (IF). 6 SAGE titles gained their first IF in the 2014 reports including Chronic Respiratory Disease, Journalism, Journal of Social Archaeology, Qualitative Social Work, Communication Disorders Quarterly and Indian Economic and Social History Review. In addition, now more than 60 percent of both SCI and SSCI titles have been ranked within the top two quartiles of their JCR subject categories.
The ten titles ranked #1 in their category are Personality and Social Psychology Review (7.545), Journal of Management (6.862), Review of Educational Research (5.000), American Journal of Sports Medicine (4.699), Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (4.617), American Sociological Review (4.266), Trauma Violence & Abuse (2.939), Communication Research (2.444), Journal of Consumer Culture (1.969) and the Psychology of Women Quarterly (1.907).
Within the SSCI index, SAGE maintained a strong position with 118 journals in the top 25 percent of the SSCI, and 5 journals ranking in the top quartile of their JCR subject categories. Particular 2014 highlights are Journal of Management (6.704), Review of Educational Research (5.000) and Theory Culture & Society (ranked #1 by total cites).
Within the SCI index, SAGE continues to significantly grow its coverage, with 46 journals in the top 25 percent in their SCI category. Particular highlights of the SCI include; Structural Health Monitoring (3.206) which increased its IF by 99% and is now in the first quartile in the multidisciplinary engineering discipline, and the Journal of Hand Surgery-European Volume and The Neuroscientist, both of which experienced an increase in IF of 79 percent and 74 percent respectively with IFs of 2.190 and 3.157.
