About Us

SAGE is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and a growing suite of library products and services.

Driven by the belief that social and behavioral science has the power to improve society, we focus on publishing impactful research, enabling robust research methodology, and producing high quality educational resources that support instructors to prepare the citizens, policymakers, educators and researchers of the future. We publish more than 1,000 journals and 600 new books globally each year, as well as library resources that include archives, data, case studies, video, and technologies for discovery, access, and engagement. SAGE’s founder, Sara Miller McCune, has transferred control of the company to an independent trust, guaranteeing its independence indefinitely.

Our mission is building bridges to knowledge — supporting the development of ideas through the research process to scholarship that is certified, taught, and applied.

Our story

In 1965, a 24-year-old Sara Miller founded SAGE Publishing with the belief that social science research can and must play an important role in shaping society. With $500 in start-up capital, a one-room office in New York City, and the mentorship of her future husband George McCune, Sara started the company’s first journal—the first of what now numbers more than 1000.

The new company, named after its founders, SAra and GEorge moved to Southern California in 1966, and within its first decade had established an office in London, the start of SAGE’s international presence.

SAGE is known for its commitment to the social sciences: the Little Green Book Series; an expansive reference collection; research methods journals, videos, and texts; and content emphasizing critical thinking, data analysis, and computational tools are all published with the aim of training current and future social scientists.

Today, Sara remains the majority shareholder and has set up an estate plan that guarantees the company’s independence. Her gift enables the company to invest with confidence in missions that benefit the society of tomorrow.

To learn more about Sara and SAGE, download a free copy of Sara’s memoir Being SAGE.

Celebrating the social & behavioral sciences

SAGE has been part of the global academic community since 1965, supporting quality research that transforms society and our understanding of individuals, groups, and cultures. We are committed to working together with our publishing partners and scholarly community to support their growing needs and the dissemination of their pivotal research.

Research methods

As the social and behavioral sciences have increasingly built on the ‘science’ part of the name, creating a body of qualitative, quantitative and evaluative research methods has become the foundation of these disciplines’ future in the broader world. Beginning in 1972, our robust list of publications and digital resources has grown to help you at every step of your research journey, including textbooks that lay out the fundamentals of the research process, journals that highlight the latest methodological innovations, the SAGE Research Methods platform that combines a library of methods texts and original content with interactive tools to guide researchers at any level, and the online community MethodSpace.

How we’ve shaped research methods

“The first words that come to mind when I think of SAGE,” David Coghlan at Trinity College Dublin has said, “are leaders in advancing the theory and practice in the field of research methods.”

“Early in our history,” said Ziyad Marar, SAGE’s director of global publishing, “Sara, in identifying things we could do differently from the rest of the publishing industry, recognized that research methods weren’t just something that scholars around the world do; they actually needed to be informed about it. That was a really innovative breakthrough.”

Our founder, Sara Miller McCune launched the journal Sociological Methods and Research in 1972, just seven years after the launch of the company.

Our community sites

Locations

SAGE Publishing is a trading name of SAGE Publications Inc, SAGE Publications Ltd, SAGE Publications India PVT LTD, SAGE Publications Asia‐Pacific PTE LTD

Partnerships