Flourishing in the Reputation Economy

Issue #2
Spring 2015
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Supporting the
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Innovation
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Flourishing in the
Reputation Economy
Welcome to the second issue of Signal. I’m delighted
to open this edition by announcing SAGE have been
presented winner of the International Academic and
Professional Publisher Award for 2015 at The London Book
Fair International Excellence Awards, held in partnership
with The Publishers Association. This honour is not only
an acknowledgment of SAGE’s growth and work over our
50 year history, but is also testament to you, our authors
and editors, without which we would not be where we are
today. As we celebrate our 50th year, we’ve been reflecting
on what it means to flourish as an independent publisher.
How will SAGE serve you (our authors and editors) in
years to come as we see dramatic changes alter the very
landscape of research and education?
One answer is that in a time of such change, with a blizzard
of information competing for attention, readers need to
know what well-curated sources to trust. And so it is all
the more important for any such publisher to maintain a
good reputation. In short we need to be both good and
skilled actors if we are to serve as your trusted guides.
We at SAGE are in the fortunate position of retaining our
independence and so are free to act with a longer-term view
than many and with an explicit and devoted commitment
to pursuing the interests of scholars, researchers, and
educators and the dissemination of your ideas. Whether
in our advocacy of the social sciences, our willingness to
enable green self-archiving of all the articles we publish,
in our defense of free expression or our commitment to
charitable causes that promote social and educational
justice, the test we face in our board room is whether we
still retain the values that propelled Sara Miller McCune to
found this company 50 years ago.
But it is not enough to be aligned with a set of values; we
must also be skilled actors if we are to serve you well.
I might trust someone’s intentions, but I also need to
trust their capacity if I’m to have true confidence in them.
And here the challenge is reflected in the sheer scale of
technological transformation in a digital age.
Happily we have grown to a scale to be able to invest and
innovate. But we invest in a disciplined manner that resists
“me too” and “something must be done” thinking. And
the way we do that is by placing high-quality content at
the heart of our publishing. While disruptive new entrants
and some publishers have focused on providing tools
and services and relegated ‘content’ to something of a
fungible commodity, we continue to believe that there
is a difference between information and knowledge and
that our role is to help convert one into the other through
filtering, shaping, curating, certifying and rewarding the
work of researchers and educators. So where we innovate
(ranging from new video collections to databases of
methods cases or through innovative open access titles
like Big Data & Society) it is our aim to ensure that the
tools and services we create (eschewing featuritis and
hype cycles) are designed to be in the service of distinctive
high-quality content, rather than the other way around.
Publishing has never been so interesting or complicated
and yet it seems that these two principles have abiding
force. Through ensuring that we are skilled actors as well
as good ones we hope to secure the kind of reputation
that will continue to be sought out by our key audiences
in years to come. If we can be aligned with the values of
the audiences we serve, as well as expert guides with
the capacity to shape and transmit ideas from the minds
of those who create into the minds of those seeking
knowledge and understanding, we have every reason to
believe we will serve you well in the reputation economy
of the future.
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Tips
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Journal
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Celebrating
SAGE authors
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Celebrating
50 years of SAGE
Ziyad Marar, Global Publishing Director, SAGE
Ziyad Marar is the executive vice
president and global publishing
director for SAGE. He is also author
of The Happiness Paradox (Reaktion,
2003), Deception (Acumen 2008),
and Intimacy: Understanding the
Subtle Power of Human Connection
(Routledge, 2012). He writes and
speaks widely on themes to do with
scholarly communication and can be
followed on Twitter: @ZiyadMarar.
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Supporting the Author’s Voice
Since SAGE’s founding 50 years ago as an
independent publisher, our role as an active
supporter and fervent advocate for research
and scholarly community has been underscored
by global efforts to preserve and enhance the
recognition and funding of evidence-based
research. Whether publishing landmark reports
in London or sponsoring lobbying efforts in
Washington, SAGE has worked outside the
traditional bounds of publishing to ensure the
value of academic endeavor and education is
given its due.
In the months leading up to Britain’s General
Election this May and the spending review this
fall, SAGE published a major report from the
Campaign for Social Science that highlighted
the value of social sciences in the UK’s economy
and culture and called both for an increase of
10 percent above the ring-fenced £4.7 billion
annual science and innovation budget proposed
for the next Parliament and for the return of the
position of a chief social science advisor to join
the existing government chief scientific advisor.
The report, titled The Business of People: The
Significance of Social Science over the Next
Decade, warns that UK growth and prosperity
will falter without a better grasp of social science,
especially in the service sector of the economy
where understanding human behavior and public
attitudes is vital.
The Business of People launched on February
24 in London and was followed with a roadshow
that included 25 events at universities across the
United Kingdom from March through May. At the
launch event, the minister for universities, science
and cities, Greg Clark MP, argued that social
science must be placed on the same shelf as
physical sciences in the funding pantheon. “The
case for social science is well understood,” he
said, “but that’s not to say you shouldn’t reinforce
it with the vigor and eloquence that you do in
this report. Across research in general—and this
very much applies to the social sciences—there
is a great recognition in government and across
political parties of the importance of science and
research in the future of our nation, so you are
pushing at an open door in this.” Other speakers
included Professor Jane Elliott, chief executive
of the Economic & Social Research Council;
Sharon Witherspoon, director of the Nuffield
Foundation; and Michelle Harrison, global
head of social and political practice at TNS.
“The voices of social scientists are often narrowly
heard,” said Professor James Wilsdon, chair of
the Campaign for Social Science, “and it is the
Campaign’s mission to ensure that we speak up
for the social sciences, especially ahead of the
election. This is a goal that is closely aligned with
that of our publishing partners and major sponsor
SAGE. It is our joint aim that this report will go
to illustrate the vital work of social sciences, and
highlight that without more investment in this
field, the UK will lose out.”
A working group of expert practitioners and social
scientists across disciplines, including author
David Walker and SAGE’s Global Publishing
Director Ziyad Marar, prepared the report. It
highlights the challenges and prospects for social
science in the UK over the next decade. The
report makes many specific recommendations
for supporting, promoting and sustaining
social sciences in the UK, ranging from toplevel reforms such as having research councils
better recognize and support the contribution
of social sciences to cross-disciplinary research
or encouraging the chief scientific advisor to
produce a new strategic framework for the
social sciences, to more granular reforms such
as ensuring that loans for master’s degrees are
fairly allocated to include students in the social
sciences. The report also touched on the use
and collection of Big Data, which would be an
important component of any strategic document.
The full Business of People report and various
collateral materials can be read or downloaded
here: http://campaignforsocialscience.org.
uk/businessofpeople/
Meanwhile, Marar has joined the board of the
Campaign for Social Science. “As a thinker,
writer, and publisher,” Wilsdon said at the time
of the appointment in January, “Ziyad Marar has
for many years been a dynamic and persuasive
advocate on behalf of social science, here in the
UK, in the US and further afield.” Marar returned
the compliment: “The excellent work that the
Campaign does benefits all of society and is an
area very close to my heart.”
In the United States, and as part of its 50th
anniversary suite of events, SAGE is sponsoring
an advocacy-oriented session on May 5 at the
Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Titled “Stories of Research to Reality: How the
Social Sciences Change the World,” the event will
feature seven social scientists—all SAGE authors
or scholars—sharing their personal experiences
with social or behavioral research that resulted
in real advancements in policy, institutions or the
lives of real people. What promises to be a lively
session will be hosted by John Sides, a political
scientist at George Washington University and
founder and contributor to the Washington Post
political science blog, The Monkey Cage.
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Speakers include Kerric Harvey, a media scholar
at George Washington University; Bruce Bueno
de Mesquita, a political scientist at New York
University; Michael Reisch, Daniel Thursz
Distinguished Professor of Social Justice at
the University of Maryland; Claire Renzetti, a
sociologist at the University of Kentucky; John
Creswell, an educational psychologist at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Jim Knight,
director of the Kansas Coaching Project; and
Deborah Rupp, professor and William C. Byham
Chair in Industrial/Organizational Psychology,
Department of Psychological Sciences, Affiliate
Faculty, Krannert School of Management,
Purdue University.
Much of the impetus for this event stems from
the concern felt by many in the social, behavioral
and economic sciences that federal funding for
these disciplines is in danger from the Republican
Party majority in the U.S. Congress. Efforts by
some Republicans in the last Congress, when
the GOP only had a majority in the House of
Representatives, and not the Senate, would have
reduced or restricted funding for social science
grants made by the National Science Foundation.
While those efforts died on the vine, leaders
in the House have indicated they will resurrect
similar measures this year; there is also talk of
making an important national data-gathering
effort, the Census Bureau’s American Community
Survey, voluntary.
SAGE supports many of the coalitions that
have developed to oppose the politicization of
scientific funding, through active membership
in umbrella organizations like the Consortium
of Social Science Associations (COSSA) and
the Coalition for National Science Funding;
sponsorship of professional lobbyist Mark Vieth
on Capitol Hill; and participation in events like
COSSA’s debut advocacy field day in March and
a recent roundtable on social science sponsored
by the National Research Council’s Division of
Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
What is the Campaign for Social Science?
The Academy of Social Sciences launched the Campaign for Social Science in 2011 to “make the
case” for social science in Britain as an advocate, a role that the Academy itself could not assume.
The intention was to craft a unified coalition to strengthen the perception and highlight the impact
of the social sciences during a time of significant change in Britain’s higher education landscape.
The campaign is supported by 81 universities, learned societies, charities, and publishers, including
SAGE; it receives no state funding. It remains a part of the academy but with a separate board
and separate accounting system; all funds designated to the campaign, and all donations, are
ring-fenced for use by the campaign only.
The campaign is chaired by Professor James Wilsdon and governed by a 17-member board. The
learn more about the campaign, visit its website at http://campaignforsocialscience.org.uk/.
Freedom of Expression beyond the
academy | “Free expression is vital for
democracy,” said SAGE board member (former
SAGE president) David McCune, “and as we
have seen tonight it is under constant attack.”
McCune, also a trustee of Index on Censorship,
was speaking at Index’s 15th annual Freedom
of Expression Awards in March, prior to giving a
special award to persecuted artists and journalists
under arrest in Azerbaijan after an “unprecedented
crackdown” on human rights advocacy. Quoting
poet Stephen Spender, the founder of the Londonbased but internationally focused Index, McCune
explained that Index exists because of concern for
those who are not free. “It’s our job to stand with
Index and with others to keep that concern alive,
to never give up on that struggle no matter how
hard or how dangerous.”
Awards are presented in four categories:
journalism, arts, campaigning and digital activism.
The winners were Saudi journalist Safa Al Ahmad
and Angolan reporter Rafael Marques de Morais
(journalism—jointly awarded); Moroccan rapper “El
Haqed” (arts); Kenyan women’s rights campaigner
Amran Abdundi (campaigning); and Hungarian
freedom of information website Atlatszo
(digital activism).
McCune’s speech, and others from the event,
can be viewed here:
https://youtu.be/fou8CHVvDww
SAGE believes that freedom of expression is the
fundamental enabler of healthy minds and healthy
society around the world. We are proud to support
the internationally recognized Index and the awardwinning magazine of the same name published
by SAGE.”
The awards ceremony at London’s The Barbican
was hosted by comedian Shappi Khorsandi—
whose father, Hadi, was forced into exile from Iran
because of his satirical writing.
SAGE board member David McCune, a passionate defender of free
expression, presents special award to a group of Azerbaijani journalists
and activists in detention or sanctuary who could not come to London
and accept their honor.
Index on Censorship 2015 Freedom of Expression award winners: Rafael Marques de Morais (journalism), Safa Al Ahmad
(journalism), Amran Abdundi (campaigning), Mouad “El Haqed” Belghouat (arts) and Tamas Bodoky (digital activism) (Photo:
Alex Brenner for Index on Censorship)
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Innovation Spotlight
Scholarship and education are in a period of rapid
change as they adapt to advancing technologies and
changing student/researcher needs. From Big Data to
Open Access, authors and editors are being handed
new tools—and new challenges—for disseminating
their work and reaching those audiences.
Students DO Use Video in Higher Education, But How? | A new white paper authored by SAGE’s executive
market research manager Elisabeth Leonard takes a critical look at one aspect of video learning: what types of videos
appeal to students and where do they go to find them, key data for authors and editors looking beyond the page.
Titled Great Expectations: Students and Video in Higher Education, the paper combines previous research with surveys
of 1,673 students and a collection of in-depth interviews. One key takeaway is that nearly 7 in 10 students report watching
videos in the classroom, while almost 8 in 10 voluntarily watch videos to enhance their understanding of a topic, to learn
the steps necessary to do something successfully, to understand the practical application of a theoretical concept, or
to find a video that they can use during their own presentations.
Leonard also found that for students, the most compelling videos are those that feature a charismatic or compelling
speaker who is animated, easy to understand, and will look directly at the camera. While students liked speakers with a
sense of humor, humor that seemed unnatural was unappealing. They preferred videos that ranged from 5 to 20 minutes,
depending on the video’s topic and relevance.
The paper includes suggestions for librarians as they connect the video resources found in their libraries with researchers,
instructors, and students. One challenge for librarians is the finding that students are largely unaware of resources that
their libraries provide access to and instead locate videos through professor recommendations or through YouTube
and Google searches. Only 32 percent of students report searching for videos in the library or on the library’s website.
Students said they hesitated to use a library’s video resources for fear that they are outdated.
Students recommended that the library market video resources using the library website, the learning management
system, social media (including Facebook), Email, touch screens inside the library, and posters on bulletin boards near
the entrance to the library. They also recommended that the message be clear and target specific services rather than
a general message about the library.
The full white paper can be downloaded here:
www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdfs/StudentsandVideo.pdf
SAGE Video | Starting with collections in three disciplines—Counseling and Psychotherapy, Media and Communications,
and Education—SAGE is rolling out its SAGE Video collections. Offering a range of video to suit different learning and
research types, the videos include leading academics, societies and practitioners drawn from SAGE’s academic network,
offering approximately 1,500 video assets, or 400 hours of original, exclusive and licensed content to enable the easy
use of trusted video for education by lecturers, academics, practitioners, researchers and students.
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Editor in Profile
Theodoros N. Arvantis and John Powell
coeditors of DIGITAL HEALTH. Here, John Powell answers.
Could you tell us a little about digital health,
both the emerging field, and the journal you
coedit, DIGITAL HEALTH?
DIGITAL HEALTH is a new interdisciplinary journal aiming
to provide an open access forum for high quality, peerreviewed academic papers in this emerging field of
digital health care. In setting the remit for this journal, we
are taking a broad perspective on the scope of digital
health and health care, covering all aspects of the use
of information and communications technology in health
services delivery and personal health and well-being.
For us, this emerging field occurs at the intersection
of three major trends in twenty-first-century health
care: the development of new technologies, especially
networked communications such as Internet and mobile
technologies, and also trends towards smart, wearable,
and pervasive technologies; the need for health services
to find new approaches to addressing the demands of
an ageing population with ever increasing levels of longterm conditions, while reducing costs; and the role of
the empowered patient and the shift in models of health
service delivery towards patient-centered care, and
patient-led care as for example seen in the increasing
emphasis on self-management solutions.
Who is your audience?
We want DIGITAL HEALTH to be relevant to multiple
stakeholders in the digital health revolution, including
researchers, practitioners, patients, policy makers,
engineers, and technology developers.
Could you describe starting the journal?
Did you approach it as doctors, netizens,
academics, or some other perspective?
As a clinical academic with a keen eye on the need for
research to be relevant to policy and practice.
Why did you choose SAGE?
SAGE has the reputation and the resources and the
ambition to make DIGITAL HEALTH the leading journal
in its field. Importantly, all my dealings with SAGE
have demonstrated what excellent and helpful staff
they have.
What advice would you offer a prospective
journal editor?
It’s hard work and you need to be organized. You need
to harness your professional networks. You need a good
(tolerant and understanding!) publisher and a good
manuscript management system.
Why did you choose to make DIGITAL
HEALTH open access?
Simply to maximize access to our articles for all
stakeholder groups, including the public, not just
academics with privileged access rights.
What is your own background?
I studied medicine and social and political sciences
at the University of Cambridge. I initially trained in
psychiatry and then in public health medicine. I’ve been
researching the area of digital health for the last 15 years.
What are the biggest goals you have yet to
achieve in your career?
I’m fairly content with where I am now. My main goals
tend to be personal ones, not career ones.
What interests you apart from your career?
I’ve got a sideline in advising television dramas on their
medical storylines—for example, I was the medical
adviser to Downton Abbey.
Who would you most want to share a pint
and pie with, living or dead?
British Olympic road and track cyclist and 2012 Tour de
France winner, Sir Bradley Wiggins.
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Behind the
Scenes at SAGE
Huw Alexander
SAGE Digital Sales Manager
What does your role entail?
As Digital Sales Manager for SAGE in London I look after
the sales of SAGE UK digital content through third parties
to our customers all over the world. The core responsibility
is managing the relationships with retail partners
such as Amazon and Google and library services like
Ebrary and EBSCO in order to ensure that our author’s
content reaches as wide an audience as possible.
My role also involves managing our provision of
accessible content to the visually impaired and print
disabled. SAGE take the provision of accessible content
very seriously and we strongly advocate within the
industry for improvements in the dissemination of content
to all customers.
Could you give more information about
your efforts to make SAGE material more
accessible? How well is SAGE doing?
I’m very happy to say that SAGE is a market leader in
accessibility and we ensure that our authors’ works
are available at point of need in whatever format is
required. Learning is a user-driven experience and we
aim to provide the optimal experience for our customers
through the provision of quality, innovative content.
Accessibility concerns are integral to the development
of our products and we thoroughly test our platforms
and routes to market with users in order to ensure that
we are delivering our content effectively.
What drew you to work at SAGE?
Why do you stay?
Previously to SAGE I had enjoyed my time at various
bookstores and literary agents on the trade publishing
side and jumped at the chance to turn my hand to the
academic side of the industry. I was initially Rights Manager
but moved across to Sales as the digital revolution
gathered pace. I’ve been at SAGE for 12 years this month,
and it is the company’s publishing philosophy and ability
to attract good people (both staff and creatives) that are
the key to this longevity. The landscape of publishing
is constantly changing and I enjoy the challenges
and rewards of working within this environment.
What’s the most interesting feedback you’ve
gotten from one of your clients?
A disability librarian responding to our level of service:
“It makes me wish SAGE published everything that my
student needs.”
My name caused some confusion for a customer I met
in Beijing: “I thought you were a girl from Singapore. This
doesn’t seem to be the case.”
What are some of the looming challenges in
the digital publishing arena?
The publishing industry is undergoing a seismic change
with the emergence of digital and the opportunities that
new technologies afford. One of the main challenges
that publishers will have to wrestle with is managing
expectations. The costs involved and the new skills
required to succeed in this new publishing world are
substantial and these need to be carefully balanced
with the market expectation for newer, brighter, bolder
content and platforms at ever-lower prices.
Our business revolves around our relationships with
our authors and customers and it is through listening
to both parties that we are able to publish innovative,
quality content. SAGE is well positioned to carefully and
thoughtfully navigate the issues facing publishers today
and will continue to do so as we engage with the exciting
times ahead.
Who would you most like to share a pint and
pie with, living or dead?
Iain M. Banks, I’ve just spent the last 12 months devouring
his entire catalogue. A remarkable writer and a huge loss
to letters. Speaking of which can I invite Terry Pratchett
and Douglas Adams, too? They would have enjoyed a
pint and pie. Maybe even a few.
What interests you outside of work?
Photography at awkward angles. Creating poor quality
paper collage. Collecting old Penguins (the books, not
the birds). Being far-flung travel-wise. Eating suspicious
things. Buying far more books than I can possibly read.
Not buying enough shelves. And the joys and wonders
of afternoon naps at the weekend.
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Tips for Authors
In an increasingly digital and global academic
landscape, additional yardsticks have arisen
that enhance, not replace, traditional yardsticks
such as publications and citations. As this
list of tips from our online products team (and
which first appeared in a different form on our
SAGE Connection blog) demonstrates, these best
practices tend to reinforce positive results in the
traditional landscape, too.
Google and Google Scholar account for 60 percent of referral traffic to SAGE journals. More web traffic to them helps
the Impact Factor rating of the journal, and if you publish in that journal, that benefit then accrues to your output. Here
are some tips for helping your paper become more discoverable online:
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eywords are less important than they once were | Search engines take into account more than 100 factors in
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rendering search results, factors that range from the mundane like spelling and technical precision of the source
code to the volume of links to an article and the (algorithmically determined) quality and quantity of content.
Some metadata, like keywords that you input as keywords, once counted a great deal in optimizing for search
engines, but have been reduced in importance as search engines have become better at scanning all the text
on a page and determining their own list of key words that identify the subject.
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ut the concept of “keyword” is as important as ever | Nonetheless, or perhaps as a result, the abstract and title
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of your paper matter even more than they once did. Your abstract gives a search engine all the data it needs to
be able to find and rank your article in the search results page. The better written your abstract, and more key
thoughts that appear in it, the higher the paper will appear in the search results page.
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nsure that the main, key phrase for your topic is in the article’s title | Make sure your article title is descriptive,
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unambiguous, accurate, and reads well. Remember that searches are usually for key phrases, such as “women’s
health,” not just “health.” Use that key phrase more than once if possible, and include a few more key words in
the abstract if there’s more than one phrase that’s commonly used to describe the same thing. Do this artfully,
though—remember humans will read this once they find it.
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uteness can kill | Keep in mind that if you insist on using your own coinages in the abstract that you run the risk
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of your article not being found. You can introduce new ideas, but be sure traditional phrases are present, too.
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se full names | One of the most important steps an author can take is to ensure that their article is indexed,
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searchable and cross-linked properly is to provide their FULL name. So, while many journals historically have
used concise author names, for example, J. Doe, abbreviated author names make it difficult for both automated
systems and real-life people to find the author they are looking for. So for poor Mr. Doe, it would be better to
list his name as Jonathan Doe, better yet as Jonathan M. Doe, and absolutely best as Jonathan Michael Doe.
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on’t worry about past conventions | Even if you have used an abbreviated version of your name in previous
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publications, by providing your full name in future publications you will actually cast a wider net for searchers
of the future. For example, if you start using Jonathan Michael Doe now after a career of using J.M. Doe,
search engines will pick up the J and the M from Jonathan Michael and pull up articles attached to the
abbreviated Mr. Doe.
Want more tips? Check out www.sagepub.com/journalgateway/
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Journal News
SAGE publishes more than 850 journals
on behalf of more than 300 learned
societies in disciplines across the social,
behavioral, health, and physical sciences.
Recent launches and acquisitions include:
Three major deals |
Late in 2014 SAGE
completed three major deals with other publishers
to acquire a suite of journals in other fields where
the company is already a leader, such as social
science or education, and in fields where SAGE
is growing rapidly, such as in legal affairs.
In late December SAGE completed the purchase
of 17 journals from Baywood Publishing
Company, Inc. Long Island, New York–
based Baywood has published scholarly and
professional journals and books in the social
sciences and humanities for more than 50 years,
starting the year before SAGE was founded.
With the acquisition, SAGE now publishes:
A Current Bibliography on African Affairs;
Abstracts in Anthropology; Empirical Studies
of the Arts; Illness, Crisis & Loss; Imagination,
Cognition and Personality; International Journal
of Health Services; International Quarterly of
Community Health Education; Journal of College
Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice;
Journal of Drug Education: Substance Abuse
Research and Prevention; Journal of Educational
Computing Research; Journal of Educational
Technology Systems; Journal of Technical
Writing and Communication; NEW SOLUTIONS:
A Journal of Environmental and Occupational
Health Policy; North American Archaeologist;
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying; The
International Journal of Aging and Human
Development; and The International Journal of
Psychiatry in Medicine.
In September, SAGE completed two buyouts,
education-oriented Symposium Journals Ltd.
and academic law’s Vathek Publishing.
Symposium is a 12-year-old company based in
the UK and that published, among other titles,
European Educational Research Journal, the
flagship publication of the European Educational
Research Association. In addition to that journal,
SAGE acquired eight other publications in
the deal: Citizenship, Social and Economics
Education; Contemporary Issues in Early
Childhood; E-Learning and Digital Media; Global
Studies of Childhood; Policy Futures in Education;
Power and Education; Psychology Learning
& Teaching; and Research in Comparative &
International Education.
Earlier that month, SAGE acquired Vathek, a
14-year-old company incorporated on the Isle
of Man that published six titles, all of which
came under SAGE’s wing. Those journals are
The Journal of Criminal Law; The Police Journal:
Theory, Practice and Principles; Common Law
World Review; Environmental Law Review;
International Journal of Police Science &
Management; and The International Journal of
Evidence & Proof.
SAGE has become the fourth-leading publisher
for medical journals in the world. Many of the
these journals are affiliated with leading medical
or health societies, and as our medical and
health sciences publishing program continues
to rapidly grow we are proud include recent
launches and acquisitions (and their society
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sponsors) such as the Nordic Journal of Nursing
Research (published in partnership with the
Swedish Society of Nursing); the Journal of
Endovascular Therapy (the official publication
of the International Society of Endovascular
Specialists); Health Environments Research
& Design (affiliated with the Center for Health
Design); Academic Pathology (sponsored by
the Association of Pathology Chairs); Workplace
Health & Safety (this more than 60-year-old
journal is the official journal of the American
Association of Occupational Health Nurses,
Inc.); Healthcare Management Forum (official
publication of the Canadian College of Health
Leaders); OTJR: Occupation, Participation, and
Health (the American Occupational Therapy
Foundation); Pedagogy in Health Promotion (a
new journal and the third published on behalf of
the Society for Public Health Education); Antiviral
Chemistry and Chemotherapy (International
Society of Antiviral Research); the Journal of
Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery ( the Canadian
Dermatology Association); and the veterinaryfocused Journal of Feline Medicine & Surgery
Open Reports (International Society of Feline
Medicine and the American Association of Feline
Practitioners).
Other medical journals recently acquired
or launched by SAGE include European
Journal of Inflammation; International Journal
of Immunopathology and Pharmacology;
The Neuroradiology Journal; Interventional
Neuroradiolgy; and Journal of Reproductive
and Stem Cell Biotechnology.
We have also launched several peer-reviewed
open-access journals in medicine, such as
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Open; Gerontology
and Geriatric Medicine; Asian/Pacific Island
Nursing Journal; Educational Neuroscience;
PLEURA (launched with the International Society
of Pleural Diseases); Journal of Rehabilitation
and Assistive Technologies Engineering (RATE);
Multiple Sclerosis Journal – Experimental,
Translational and Clinical; and Health Psychology
Open.
SAGE has been growing its portfolio in theology
and biblical studies, including the relaunch of
two journals, the Journal of Christian Education
and the Journal of Education and Christian Belief,
under the new name The International Journal
of Christianity & Education. SAGE also now
publishes the Conference on Christianity and
Literature’s journal, Christianity & Literature.
Meanwhile, SAGE continues to launch or acquire
journals in areas where it has traditionally
been strong.
In engineering, for example, SAGE started
publishing the open-access journal Advances in
Mechanical Engineering (AIME) in January. The
leading OA journal in mechanical engineering,
AIME publishes original research articles and
review articles; submissions are being accepted
for the journal and for a number of special issues
due to be published in 2015 and 2016.The most
recent Impact Factor for AIME is 0.500 according
to the 2013 Journal Citation Reports released by
Thomson Reuters (ISI) in mid-2014.
In the social sciences, SAGE and Shanghai
University in have partnered to publish an
English-language version of The Chinese Journal
of Sociology, which, when established in 1981,
was the first sociological journal founded in China
after sociology was reestablished in the country
in 1979. The peer-reviewed journal welcomes
high-quality work from all areas of sociology
and sociologically informed contributions
from anthropologists, economists, historians,
psychologists, and political scientists; the first
edition was published in March.
Other journals new to SAGE’s list include
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (published with
the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of
the American Sociological Association); the
19-year-old Competition & Change: The Journal
of Business and Political Economy; ILR Review
(the official publication of Cornell University’s
ILR School, the leading academic institution
focused on the world of work); the open-access
Social Media + Society; and Asian and Pacific
Migration Journal (published in partnership with
the Scalabrini Migration Center).
SAGE Journals Online Getting Better
After much consultation with end users and librarians, SAGE is delighted to partner with HighWire
Press to redesign the SAGE Journals website, launching in the second quarter of 2016. At
SAGE we are committed to innovation in a fast paced digital world and the new site, which is
built in a highly flexible content management framework (Drupal), will help us to best serve our
customers’ changing needs.
Driven by feedback from extensive market and user research our new site will offer an intuitive
design, optimized reading experience, seamless navigation, and a fresh and creative look. We
have embedded the latest technologies, including a fully responsive design, semantically enriched
content recommendations, and Altmetrics. Our goal is to delight readers and authors visiting
the journals site. We aim to create an engaging space for reading by making the features we
know are important to users a priority, while supporting their research journey and providing
clear routes to discover more.
To assist our editors, societies, librarians and journals platform users in the transition we are planning
to provide a suite of resource materials and training sessions once the site goes live in 2016. For
more information contact Product Marketing Manager for SAGE Journals, Charlotte Hatherly, at
[email protected].
10
Celebrating SAGE
Authors and Their Works
Our authors, editors, and publishing partners are
crucial to SAGE’s success, and we thank you for
your continued support. We are always delighted
to see your good work honored by the industry or
academe. Our congratulations to you all.
Django Paris and Maisha T. Winn
| Humanizing Research was selected by the
Library Journal and Reference and User
Services Association | The independent
American Educational Research Association’s
Qualitative Research Special Interest Group to
receive its 2015 Outstanding Book Award. The
anthology was edited by Django Paris of Michigan
State University and Maisha T. Winn of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Library Journal’s Best Reference list named three
SAGE books among the best it reviewed in 2014.
Those books (and their editors) are Encyclopedia
of Education Economics and Finance (Dominic J.
Brewer and Lawrence O Picus), Encyclopedia
of Humor Studies (Salvatore Attardo), and
Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics (Kerric
Harvey).
ABS Academic Journal Guide |
Three
SAGE society journals received a 4* ranking, the
top tier, in The Association of Business Schools’
(ABS) Academic Journal Guide 2015. The ABS
guide, published in February, is based upon peer
review, editorial and expert judgments following
the evaluation of many hundreds of publications,
and is informed by statistical information relating
to citation.
The top journals were Administrative Science
Q uar te rly, the journal for the Johnson
School of Business at Cornell University; the
Journal of Management from the Southern
Management Association; and the American
Sociological Review, the journal for American
Sociological Association.
SAGE also had a number of journals ranked
4*, including Human Relations; Journal of
Service Research; Journal of Travel Research;
Organizational Research Methods; Organization
Studies; Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin; and Work Employment and Society.
Funnily enough, the Encyclopedia of Humor
Studies was one of two SAGE titles chosen by
the American Library Association’s Reference
and User Ser vices Association as an
Outstanding Reference Source. The other volume
was The Encyclopedia of Deception, edited by
Timothy R. Levine.
American Indian Histories and
Cultures | This major digital resource from
SAGE imprint Adam Matthew and sourced
exclusively from the renowned Edward E. Ayer
Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago,
has been selected for inclusion in Choice’s annual
Outstanding Academic Title list. The collection
includes a diverse range of materials, including
rare manuscripts, newspapers, artwork, maps,
speeches, and pictures. All the information is
presented with detailed metadata, allowing
access to unrivaled source material for the
study of westward expansion and the American
Indian experience.
Chartered Management Institute |
Organizations and Management in Cross-Cultural
Context by Zeynep Aycan, Rabindra N Kanungo,
and Manuel Mendonça received the top prize
in the Management and Leadership Textbook
category from the Chartered Management Institute,
which operates the award program in association
with the British Library and the Henley Business
School at the University of Reading.
British Book Design and Production
Awards | The third edition of Marketing: An
Introduction, by Rosalind Masterson and
David Pickton, received the award for Best Use
of Cross Media in the British Book Design and
Production Awards 2014 competition. The awards
are sponsored by British Print, Oxford Brookes
University, and The Publishers Association.
Richard M. Gargiulo |
The fifth edition of
Special Education in Contemporary Society: An
Introduction to Exceptionality, edited by Richard
M. Gargiulo, received a 2015 ‘Texty’ Texbook
Excellence Award from the Text and Academic
Authors Association (TAA). Gargiulo, professor
of special education in the School of Education
at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, will
receive his award at the TAA conference this June
in Las Vegas.
Pedro Noguera | SAGE and the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
(CASBS) at Stanford University awarded sociologist
and education rights activist Pedro Noguera the
11
2014 recipient of the SAGE-CASBS award last
November at the California University. Established
in 2013, the award recognizes outstanding
achievement in advancing the understanding of
the behavioral and social sciences as they are
applied to pressing social issues. Noguera, who
coedited the 2015 Corwin anthology Excellence
Through Equity with Alan M. Blankstein, serves
as executive director of the Metropolitan Center
for Research on Equity and the Transformation
of Schools.
Publishing Professionals Network
| Two SAGE books, the Corwin title The BestKept Teaching Secret, by Harvey “Smokey”
Daniels and Elaine Daniels, and Perspectives
on International Relations, 4th Edition by Henry
Nau, were selected as Merit Award winners for
the Publishing Professionals Network Book Show
in January. Each year, the network recognizes
outstanding work in book publishing, and
considers design, production, and manufacturing.
In this case, SAGE’s Rose Storey designed the
Daniels’s book, while Scott Van Atta designed
Nau’s volume.
Journal Citation Reports | SAGE journals
continue to improve their standing in the most
recent Journal Citation Reports® from Thomson
Reuters, released last year. SAGE had more
than 470 indexed journals, up 55 percent in
five years—a 47 percent increase in the Social
Science Citation Index and an 85 percent
increase in the Science Citation Index, the latter
spike due in large part to the 2012 acquisition of
the Royal Society of Medicine’s 28 journals.
In the report, SAGE had more than 200 journals
in the top 30 percent.
Looking specifically at Impact Factors, 10 titles
ranked first in their category: 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).
The next Journal Citation Report is expected
in June.
Accessible Books Consortium | SAGE
is one of four publishers shortlisted for the
Accessible Books Consortium’s International
Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing.
Bookseller Industry Awards and
London Book Fair | For the third year
running, SAGE has been shortlisted for the
Bookseller Industry Awards as Academic,
Educational and Professional Publisher of the
Year; the announcement of a winner will be
made in mid-May. In April, SAGE was shortlisted
for the Accessible Books Award and named
International Academic and Professional
Publisher of the Year at London Book Fair’s
International Excellence Awards 2015, run in
partnership with the Publishing Association.
SAGE Founder Sara Miller McCune presents education reformer Pedro
Noguera the annual SAGE-CASBS award at the annual summit of the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support
the dissemination of usable knowledge by publishing innovative
and high-quality research and teaching content. Today, we
publish more than 850 journals, including those of more than
300 learned societies, more than 800 new books per year, and a growing range of library products including archives, data, case
studies, reports, conference highlights, and video.
SAGE remains majority-owned by our founder, and after Sara’s lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures
our continued independence.
1965 – Sara Miller founds SAGE in a one-room office in New
York City. SAGE’s first publication, Urban Affairs
Quarterly, arrives nine months later
1966 – Sara moves SAGE to Beverly Hills, California and marries
her mentor and partner, George McCune. SAGE takes its
name from their names: Sara and George
1971 – SAGE Publications Ltd. Established in London
1981 – SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd established in New Delhi
1986 – S
AGE corporate headquarters moved from Beverly Hills
to Thousand Oaks, California
1990 – Corwin launched
1995 – S
AGE extends journals program into science,
technology and medicine
1998 –Paul Chapman Publishing joins SAGE; SAGE journals
content first appears online
2004 – Blaise Simqu named SAGE CEO
2006 – Vivek Mehra named SAGE India CEO
2008 – CQ Press joins SAGE
2011 – Learning Matters becomes a SAGE imprint
2012 – S
AGE acquires both Adam Matthew, a primary sources
publisher, and the Royal Society of Medicine journals program
2013 – SAGE opens offices in Beijing and Rio de Janeiro
2014 – SAGE acquires MD Conference Express
2015 – S
AGE Video launched in our 50th year, new Corwin
office opened in Melbourne, Australia
Learning to be creative | At a February 12 kickoff event in the U.S. celebrating SAGE’s 50th year,
one of the most creative minds in the field of creativity in education addressed an invited audience of
educators, innovators and philanthropists in Santa Barbara, California. And the message of Sir Ken
Robinson, “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative,” was as direct as it was sincere (and humorous):
“Creativity is not optional” in education. Science and numeracy are important drivers of the economy
and of national success and are “terribly important—but that’s not all there is.”
Robinson rocketed to global fame in 2006 with a TED talk on how schools kill creativity. That talk,
currently at 32 million views, is the most viewed video on the TED.com site.
He suggested there must be a touch of creativity in SAGE itself. “It’s a remarkable achievement to
make this anniversary in such turbulent times.”
Robinson has been studying education—and extolling the virtues of creativity—for a long time, starting,
he said, at age 18 (when SAGE was itself three years old). And in those years Robinson, who studied
English and drama, then taught education at University of Warwick and elsewhere, developed his
own ideas about what works in education. “They’re not theories, they’re actually what works (but you
can theorize about it),” Robinson said of his project-based curriculum and other ideas fleshed out in
many of his books.
Sir Ken Robinson, SAGE CEO Blaise Simqu and
SAGE Founder Sara Miller McCune start the
year of celebrating SAGE’s 50th anniversary in
February with a talk by Robinson in California.
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