Academic publisher SAGE has reported strong performance and continued growth across its journals portfolio in the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) Thomson Reuters, 2015.
With over 500 journals now ranked in the JCR, SAGE continues to experience consistent growth within the reports, achieving a 31 percent increase over the past five years. In this year's reports, over 100 SAGE journals have received a top 10 category rank, with 23 journals receiving their first Impact Factor (IF). 220 titles are now placed in the top 30 percent of the JCR, and 52 percent of SAGE journals are ranked within the top half of their subject category. In the 2014 reports SAGE publishes the market leading journal within 13 categories.
Over the last five years, SAGE has seen a 51 percent increase in the number of titles in the SCI index, primarily due to strategic acquisitions and organic growth across the medical, engineering and technology disciplines, with SAGE now being marked out as one of the top five publishers of medical journals in the world. SAGE continues to significantly grow its coverage within the SCI with 181 journals now ranked and 47 journals in the top 25 percent of their SCI category.
Particular highlights include Statistical Methods in Medical Research (4.472), Journal of Dental Research (4.139), Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (3.976) and International Journal of Robotics Research (2.540), all being ranked #1 in their categories. Two SAGE neurology journals, Cephalagia and Multiple Sclerosis Journal also received high IFs of 4.891 and 4.822 respectively. Additionally, four of SAGE's 14 recently-launched Therapeutic Advances journals received their first IF in the 2014 reports; Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology (3.925), Neurological Disorders (3.140), Medical Oncology (2.827) and Respiratory Disease (1.949).
