Find SAGE journals for your paper

Paste a title, an abstract or keywords to see which of the 982 SAGE journals in our catalog publish the most on your topic. Switch the publisher filter to “Any publisher” to compare them with journals from every other publisher. Free, no sign-up, and your text is not stored.

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Example results

Showing 25 of 60 matching journals

For the sample paper “Social media use, loneliness and depressive symptoms among older adults”. Paste your own title or abstract above to replace it.

Topics we matched: Health and Well-being Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Technology Use by Older Adults · Health, Education, and Aging · Older Adults Driving Studies

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  1. Journal of Aging and Health100% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    1.7
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid
    Time to acceptance
    —
  2. Journal of Health and Social Behavior80% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    3.2
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $3,900
    Time to acceptance
    —
  3. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine72% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    3.0
    Access and APC
    Open access, $1,200
    Time to acceptance
    98 days
  4. Journal of Applied Gerontology60% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q2
    Score
    1.7
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $4,400
    Time to acceptance
    —
  5. International Journal of Aging & Human Development58% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q2
    Score
    1.6
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $3,650
    Time to acceptance
    —
  6. Research on Aging56% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q2
    Score
    1.2
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $4,150
    Time to acceptance
    —
  7. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health47% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q2
    Score
    1.7
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $4,400
    Time to acceptance
    —
  8. Society and Mental Health45% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    2.8
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid
    Time to acceptance
    —
  9. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services29% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    2.5
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid
    Time to acceptance
    —
  10. Perspectives in Public Health22% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q3
    Score
    1.1
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $3,900
    Time to acceptance
    —
  11. Social Currents20% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    2.2
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $3,650
    Time to acceptance
    —
  12. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities19% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q2
    Score
    1.7
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $3,650
    Time to acceptance
    —
  13. International Journal of Behavioral Development18% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q2
    Score
    1.7
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $3,650
    Time to acceptance
    —
  14. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering18% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    2.1
    Access and APC
    Open access, $2,100
    Time to acceptance
    145 days
  15. Journal of Attention Disorders17% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    3.1
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $3,650
    Time to acceptance
    —
  16. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry16% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    3.0
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $4,400
    Time to acceptance
    —
  17. Clinical Psychological Science14% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    3.7
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid
    Time to acceptance
    —
  18. Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology14% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q2
    Score
    2.4
    Access and APC
    Open access, $2,650
    Time to acceptance
    166 days
  19. Digital Health14% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    3.8
    Access and APC
    Open access, $1,500
    Time to acceptance
    127 days
  20. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science13% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    7.2
    Access and APC
    Open access · APC not listed
    Time to acceptance
    —
  21. Ergonomics in Design12% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q4
    Score
    0.3
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $1,500
    Time to acceptance
    —
  22. Journal of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Nursing11% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q2
    Score
    1.1
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid
    Time to acceptance
    —
  23. Dementia-International Journal of Social Research and Practice11% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    1.8
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $3,650
    Time to acceptance
    —
  24. Clinical Nursing Research10% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q2
    Score
    1.8
    Access and APC
    Subscription or hybrid · OA option $4,150
    Time to acceptance
    —
  25. Womens Health10% match
    SAGE Publishing
    Quartile
    Q1
    Score
    2.5
    Access and APC
    Open access, $1,500
    Time to acceptance
    —

Match is relative to the best journal for this search. Quartile is the journal’s best subfield quartile. Score is the Journal Metrics Score. APC is the indicative fee reported to OpenAlex. Time to acceptance is the PubMed median for 2024 and 2025, shown when enough articles report both dates. A dash means no data. Check fees, scope and timelines on the journal’s site before you submit.

How the matching works

The finder does not use an AI model. It compares the words in your title, abstract and keywords with 4,516 research topics from OpenAlex, each described by a name, a list of keywords and a short description. Words that are rare across topics, such as “zebrafish” or “cathode”, count for more than common ones, and a keyword phrase that appears in your text counts extra.

Each journal is then scored by how much of its recent output, the articles and reviews it published from 2021 to 2024, falls in the topics your text matches. A specialist journal that publishes mostly on your topic ranks above a large journal that publishes a little of everything, and a specific word from your title in a journal’s name, such as “Spine”, adds a small boost.

The “Topics we matched” line shows how your text was read. If it looks wrong, add a few field-specific keywords. Each result also lists the topics that earned it a place.

What the columns mean

Match
How well the journal’s output fits your text, relative to the best match for the same search. It is a ranking aid, not a probability of acceptance.
Quartile
The journal’s best quartile across the subfields it publishes in, where Q1 is the top 25% of a subfield by Journal Metrics Score. See Q1 vs Q2 journals.
Score
The Journal Metrics Score: two-year mean citedness from OpenAlex.
Access and APC
Whether the journal is fully open access, and the indicative article processing charge in US dollars reported to OpenAlex. Subscription and hybrid journals let you publish without a fee; the “OA option” is what they charge to make one article open access.
Time to acceptance
The median number of days from submission to acceptance in PubMed records from 2024 and 2025, available for 4,188 journals where enough articles report both dates. Where a publisher reports its acceptance rate, it is shown underneath. See journal acceptance times.

Journal finders by publisher

Publisher tools only suggest their own journals. This finder covers every publisher in the catalog, and these pages open it with one publisher selected. Switch the publisher filter to “Any publisher” at any time to compare across publishers. Here, SAGE means journals OpenAlex lists under SAGE Publishing.

For a side-by-side look at the publisher tools, JANE and AI options, read journal finder tools compared.

Before you submit

  1. Read the aims and scope and a few recent articles of your top three to five matches.
  2. Check the fee, open access options and author guidelines on the journal’s own site.
  3. Confirm the indexing the journal claims in the database itself, not only on the journal’s website.
  4. Rule out predatory journals. See predatory journal lists compared.
  5. Plan a second and third choice in case of desk rejection, and prepare a cover letter for each.

Frequently asked questions

How do I find the right SAGE journal for my paper?
Paste your title and abstract above. The finder compares your text with about 4,500 OpenAlex research topics and ranks the 982 SAGE journals in the catalog by how much of their recent output falls in your topics. Open a journal to check its scope, quartile, fees and timing, then read its author guidelines on the publisher’s site.
Which journals count as SAGE here?
Journals whose publisher OpenAlex lists as SAGE Publishing. Journals that SAGE publishes on behalf of a society are included when OpenAlex credits SAGE as the publisher.
How is this different from the official SAGE journal finder?
This finder is independent and not affiliated with SAGE. It shows each journal’s quartile, Journal Metrics Score, APC and PubMed time to acceptance side by side, and the publisher filter can be switched off to compare SAGE journals with every other publisher.
Is it free, and is my abstract stored?
Searches are free with no sign-up. Your text is used only to run the search and is not saved, logged or sent to any other service, and no AI model reads it.
Are the APC and acceptance times official?
No. The APC is the indicative fee reported to OpenAlex and the time to acceptance is the median from PubMed records from 2024 and 2025. Fees and timelines change, so confirm both on the journal’s own website before you submit.

Sources

  • OpenAlex (CC0): research topics and their keywords, journal topic output for 2021 to 2024, publisher, open access status and APC.
  • PubMed: received and accepted dates for articles published in 2024 and 2025.
  • Acceptance rates: the publisher pages credited on each journal’s record.

Content updated November 1, 2026. See the methodology for how the journal data is built.