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Plain language summaries (PLS) are becoming increasingly prevalent in the scientific literature as they have the potential to broaden the impact of scholarly articles by bringing them to the attention of a more general audience. In this blog, we aim to guide authors through the process of developing a PLS for a manuscript suitable for submission to SAGE Journals.
Read MoreConsidering becoming a reviewer or getting more involved with peer review? SAGE is pleased to announce a new webinar focused on the academic reviewing landscape.
Read MoreBurnout is a psychological syndrome involving emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and over time a sense of reduced accomplishment. While anyone may experience burnout, research suggests physicians experience higher levels of burnout than other professions, and physician burnout is on the rise.
Read MoreSomething unique to being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) is a concern that your family will reject you for gender or sexual identity. For LGBTQ youth, having family members reject them can lead to mental health problems, issues finishing high school, and homelessness.
Read MoreSexuality can be fluid, especially in women. A young woman might identify as bisexual one year and lesbian the next. But how do women feel when their sexual identities change? According to my study published in the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, the answer is “it depends”. Let me explain.
Read MoreAcknowledging people’s lived experiences of intersectional minority stress and how this shapes their mental health is critical to addressing health inequalities.
Read MoreCancer entails physical and emotional challenges that affect daily activities, including those associated with the maternal role. We are particularly interested in the emotional challenges faced by these women, such as: concerns about the ways in which family dynamics will be affected and how cyclical treatments and periodic checkups could compromise the relationship with their young children.
Read MoreRecent advocacy efforts have led to nearly every state in the United States passing legislation related to dyslexia identification or services in schools. While researchers and policy experts may be watching for unintended consequences of dyslexia legislation, school personnel are left to make decisions about how to meet the requirements to identify students with dyslexia, screen for dyslexia risk, and provide interventions. So, what should school personnel know and consider in order to implement best practices now?
Read MoreLike many other disciplines — or at least those in the Westernized Global North with which I am familiar — my discipline of music education has been grappling of late with the question of what it means to ethically conduct research in the 21st century.
Read MoreChildren with Down syndrome (DS) can become independent readers. This understanding (and societal expectation) is relatively new in that twenty years ago reading instruction for this population was primarily focused on functional reading—and prior to that time, there was no expectation that children with DS would learn to read.
Read MoreThis International Podcast Day, we want to celebrate the wonderful hosts and guests of SAGE’s podcast channels.
Read MoreSociological research has long shown that culture reflects the opportunities and limitations we face in our everyday lives. When women lose the right to control their fertility, all people lose a culture which celebrates pleasure.
Read MoreSpecial Collections have become an essential part of modern journal publishing. They facilitate the timely collation of complementary articles in important areas of research. The key to writing a winning proposal is to make sure it contains all the information that the Journal Editorial Team needs to evaluate and accept it for launch. Here is some practical advice on how to prepare each of the key elements of your proposal.
Read MoreTo mark National Inclusion Week between 26th of September to the 2nd of October, we asked some of our authors what inclusion in education means to them.
Read MoreAs the eighth annual Peer Review Week comes to a close it feels appropriate to reflect back on this year’s theme, ‘Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research.’
Read MoreAt SAGE, ethical peer review is a cornerstone to ensure impactful and high-quality research publishing. SAGE is committed to ethical peer review and is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Here are 10 tips on how to be an ethical reviewer.
Read MoreWe spoke to Caroline Porter, our Associate VP for Research Publishing about how her role at COPE supports her work at SAGE and how we can build integrity in the academic community .
Read MoreAs the theme of this year’s Peer Review Week is Research Integrity, Louise Skelding Tattle highlights the Research Integrity Group (RIG) at SAGE and tell us a few things about how the RIG works to improve and protect our publishing processes.
Read MoreResearch Integrity in 2022 continues to focus on efforts made by scholarly publishers to maintain the integrity of the published record. Here are steps researchers can take to uphold research integrity principles more proactively and avoid post-publication disputes.
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