In order to attract relevant, high-quality submissions and support journal costs, some Sage journals charge a fee to submit an article. This fee does not guarantee Editorial or peer review and is non-refundable, regardless of the progress of the submission or the final decision (unless an exception is stated on the journal website). Authors are informed of this via the journal website and at the time of submission.These fees are chargeable in all circumstances, any discounts or waivers are offered at the sole discretion of the Journal editorial office.
Some subscription journals charge authors page or publication charges to publish their article. There has been ambiguity when an article, from one of these journals, has any of these associated costs as well as open access (OA) as to what should be charged. Therefore, Sage is clarifying its policy on the subject (July 2022).
There are two ways an article in a subscription journal can publish OA, one is through requesting to publish your article OA, this is called Sage Choice, or the article may have been identified as part of one of our Open Access Sales Deals (OASD).
Articles being made OA by one of the two options, will still also have the associated charge related to the journal such as page, publication or colour charge.
Terms and definitions
Page and publication charges remain important for the financial sustainability of some journals.
We currently have active journals with page or publication charges. Some of these journals had page or publication charges before Sage had acquired them from other publishers, some are due to Society requirements, please see below:
Mary Ann Liebert acquired journals