1. The importance of search engines
2. What do search engines look at?
3. So what can you do to help?
   3.1 Repeat key phrases in the abstract while writing naturally
   3.2 Get the title right
   3.3 Choose your key words carefully
   3.4 Link to your article
   3.5 Summary

Decision Types

Accept - No further revision required. The manuscript is publishable in its current form. The majority of articles require revision before reaching this stage.

Understanding journal metrics

When publishing your work open access, your institution may be able to help you to cover the open access article processing charge (APC) through an Open Access agreement they have with Sage.

Your institution may also have an open access prepaid account (OAPA) with Sage in order to cover APCs or you may be eligible for a discount due to your institutional affiliation.

Get Students DOING Sociology

Some steps editors can take to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within their journals

Introduction

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is something that we care deeply about at Sage. We are aware that the publishing industry, including Sage, has much more work to do in order to better reflect the diversity of the world we seek to educate and inform. Our core Sage Journals DEI pledges are published here.

Offerings from Sage for Library Consortia

In response to research and feedback from our market, including discussions with the library community, Sage has expanded its offerings to consortia customers. We now provide all of the following purchase options to library consortia. 

London - SAGE and The British Educational Research Association (BERA), one of the UK’s leading charities to encourage education research, today announced the launch of the Handbook of Educational Research at the 2014 annual BERA Conference.

• Communication: We are conscious of, and understand, how keen authors are to see their work published. Sage production staff maintain regular communication with journal editors and authors throughout the production process. In addition, email messages are automatically sent out to the corresponding author at key points along the workflow to confirm that their article has been received in production and to inform them of their article’s progress.