Impact Factor & Ranking Results

Learn more about Sage journals’ research impact through the following areas: 

• Impact Factor and rankings results
• Article and journal level metrics
• Sage and DORA

Impact Factor & Ranking Results

*From the Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2025)
 

With 1,128 journals now ranked in the JCR, Sage continues to experience consistent growth in the reports. 76 Sage journals have received a top 10 category rank. 334 titles are now ranked in the top 30% of the JCR, and 56% of Sage journals are ranked within the top half of their subject category. In the 2025 release, SAGE publishes the market-leading journal within the 7 categories shown below.
 
A 7% increase in coverage in the SSCI over the last five years means that there are now 469 Sage journals in the SSCI. 42% of the SSCI journals received an increased IF in the 2025 release. 184 journals are now placed in the top 25% of the JCR rankings for their category.

In the 2025 release, Sage publishes the market-leading journal within six SSCI categories: Cultural Studies, Education, Special, Family Studies, Geography, Psychology, Social, and Social Work.
 
Over the last five years, Sage has seen a 42% increase in the number of titles in the SCIE index, primarily due to strategic acquisitions and organic growth across the medical, engineering, and technology disciplines. Sage continues to be one of the top five publishers of medical journals in the world. Sage’s coverage within SCIE has 364 journals now ranked and 62 journals in the top 25% of their SCIE category. Sage publishes the market-leading journal in 1 SCIE category: Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology.

In the 2025 release, SAGE publishes the market-leading journal by 5-year Impact Factor in 7 categories: Education, Special; Family Studies; Geography; Psychology, Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Social; Social Work; Sociology; Women’s Studies.

Article and journal-level metrics

Article-level metrics, including downloads and citations, are available and offer valuable insights into a researcher’s contribution to the discipline and the wider community. Furthermore, a full range of journal-level metrics, including downloads and impact data from abstracting and indexing services such as Google Scholar, Journal Citation Reports, and Scopus (where available), can be explored for each journal.

Sage and DORA

The above features highlight our ongoing commitment to balanced, broad, and responsible research. We are pleased to share our support for the principles of the Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA), which encourages publishers to report on a range of metrics based on the scientific content of an article rather than publication metrics of the journal in which it was published. Learn more about the various ways we are taking action.