SAGE Publications Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher SAGE Publications including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

SAGE Publications has published 2852772 documents so far, receiving a total of 21992313 citations. These numbers are equal to 2.33% and 1.99% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. SAGE Publications has a score of 7.71 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by SAGE Publications. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Reference Entry, Other, Book, Posted Content, Report, Monograph, and Book Section a with the total document number of 2602461, 89887, 135914, 13323, 3318, 2602, 107, 4542, and 618 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 91.23%, 3.15%, 4.76%, 0.47%, 0.12%, 0.09%, 0.00%, 0.16%, and 0.02% of the total documents published in SAGE Publications so far, respectively. SAGE Publications has been an active publisher from 1809-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of SAGE Publications over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of SAGE Publications documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. SAGE Publications has the highest annual number of publications in 2012, with 141832 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2010, with 868983 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.27.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of SAGE Publications are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports.

The number of published documents by SAGE Publications are 2602461, 135914, 89887, 4542, 3318, 2602, 618, and 107 for Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports, respectively. These numbers are equal to 2.84%, 13.15%, 0.57%, 0.78%, 0.37%, 0.32%, 11.08%, and 0.02% of the whole published Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports of SAGE Publications are 21598319, 18157, 159960, 139832, 69082, 47, 112, and 44, respectively. These numbers are equal to 2.04%, 6.44%, 1.00%, 2.51%, 0.91%, 0.03%, 28.94%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports by SAGE Publications are 761, 33, 113, 174, 121, 2, 3, and 3, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 128, 588, 760, 793, 79, 6, and 253, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports by SAGE Publications are 58, 9, 19, 29, 24, 2, 2, and 2, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 18, 48, 60, 60, 14, 3, and 29, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports by SAGE Publications are 8.299, 0.134, 1.780, 30.786, 20.820, 0.018, 0.181, and 0.411, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 0.273, 1.016, 9.566, 8.593, 0.197, 0.069, and 1.416, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports by SAGE Publications are 81767, 42477, 32522, 265, 394, 995, 177, and 28, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports are 2020, 2012, 2012, 2010, 2019, 2020, 2017, and 2018, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports published in SAGE Publications are 863768, 6957, 92401, 5438, 1750, 23, 40, and 18, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports are 2010, 2012, 2012, 2012, 2010, 2020, 2015, and 2018, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports published in SAGE Publications are 13.92, 0.16, 2.84, 23.54, 12.96, 0.04, 0.23, and 1.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Reference Entrys, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Posted Contents, Book Sections, and Reports are 2010, 2012, 2012, 2012, 2010, 2018, 2015, and 2014, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher SAGE Publications.

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by SAGE Publications, are 778, 321, and 144, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by SAGE Publications are 58, 30, and 19, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by SAGE Publications, are 479388, 206946, 87259, 30551, 6287, 1774, 482, 91, 20, and 7, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the SAGE Publications top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by SAGE Publications is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of SAGE Publications based on the number of published documents are Journal of Education, Experimental Biology and Medicine, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Psychological Reports. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 47609, 47320, 36923, 32526, and 28169, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.669%, 1.659%, 1.294%, 1.140%, and 0.987% of the total documents published by SAGE Publications so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of SAGE Publications are The American Journal of Sports Medicine, Experimental Biology and Medicine, Journal of Marketing, American Sociological Review, and Journal of Dental Research. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 10836, 47320, 14322, 12795, and 16997, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.049%, 0.215%, 0.065%, 0.058%, and 0.077% of the total citations received by SAGE Publications publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of SAGE Publications are Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, The American Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, and Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 67.369, 46.035, 46.524, 43.367, and 34.586, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in SAGE Publications. The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher SAGE Publications are book reviews, new york, united states, the impact, the united states, case study, health care, the world, mental health, and the future, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 59324, 26027, 24324, 22957, 17572, 16415, 15334, 14471, 13823, and 13227, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher SAGE Publications are the impact, united states, the relationship, in vitro, mental health, multiple sclerosis, the united states, the social, decision making, and meta analysis, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 22957, 24324, 11629, 10291, 13823, 6194, 17572, 11394, 12363, and 4874, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher SAGE Publications are the brain, meta analysis, blood flow, multiple sclerosis, future research, magnetic resonance imaging, well being, systematic review, factor analysis, and magnetic resonance, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 25.052, 23.783, 22.333, 20.645, 18.604, 15.720, 15.341, 15.207, 14.684, and 14.665, respectively.