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We are grateful for all our reviewers, as this work really helps authors enhance and develop their papers and supports the integrity of the publishing process.
We appreciate and reward the invaluable contributions that reviewers make to Sage. Additionally, we recognize the career-enhancing significance of serving as a reviewer within your field of study. If you choose to become a Sage reviewer, we will provide resources to assist you in initiating reviews, writing thoughtful assessments, and receiving credit for your valuable contributions.
The quality and integrity of published research depends on researchers contributing their expertise in the form of peer review. There are also many personal benefits for reviewers, including:
Read more about career benefits of reviewing in the Sage Perspectives blog post, “What? Me, review?”.
We offer the following rewards every time you review for a Sage journal:
You will receive instructions on how to access these rewards via email, once you have successfully submitted your review to Sage Track. If you have any difficulty accessing these rewards, please contact onlinesupport@sagepub.co.uk.
Because much of the work done by reviewers is by its very nature anonymous, some journal editors choose to publish a list of their reviewer’s names annually to thank this group openly for their hard work. Therefore, if you review for a Sage journal, it is possible your name will be published in a thank you list. If you do not want your name to be published, please contact the journal editor.
As part of our commitment to supporting the reviewer community, we are partnered with Web of Science reviewer recognition, a service that gives recognition for peer review contributions. You can also use ORCID to gain recognition for your reviews.
If you need to provide evidence that you have reviewed for a Sage journal, for example as part of a funding application or in support of a promotion, job, or green card application, you can download the record of your activity. Alternatively, you can share the email sent to you confirming your review has been received.
Web of Science reviewer recognition is a free service that enables you to effortlessly record, verify, and showcase your peer review contributions. Web of Science reviewer recognition records the number of papers you have reviewed for a journal while maintaining reviewer anonymity in accordance with each journal’s review policy.
For more information, please see the Web of Science Reviewer Recognition page or check out the Reviewer Recognition FAQs for reviewers.
For our integrated journals, there are a number of ways to do this:
For any journal:
ORCID is a service which allows you to keep a public record of your academic contributions across disciplines, borders, and time, all in one place.
As a reviewer, you can use your ORCID to gain recognition of your peer reviewing activities via Web of Science reviewer recognition. We also recommend ORCID’s tips for building an authoritative ORCID record.