Sage releases its annual Independence with Impact Report highlighting achievements from 2024. For 60 years, Sage has published resources that advance disciplines, cultivate critical thinking skills in the classroom, and drive social change inside and outside of our organization. This year’s report reflects the progress the company made enabling academic impact; increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion; advancing sustainability; promoting academic freedom; safeguarding research integrity; and supporting new ways of learning.
The report reflects the company’s firm commitment to developing and widely disseminating high-quality research and resources from diverse perspectives on an array of topics that impact humanity. “The core values that guide our business activities now are the same that have shaped our company since its founding in 1965,” says Blaise Simqu, Sage CEO. “In our current era of misinformation, the need to develop media literacy and critical thinking and support academic freedom is greater now than ever.”
Highlights include:
- In response to our current era of misinformation, all of our 2024 teaching resources help to foster critical thinking skills in students. Additionally, we organized the fifth annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp, and hosted a webinar featuring Dr. Tom Chatfield, bestselling author of Sage’s Critical Thinking. The events attracted more than 2,000 registrants from around the world.
- Sage Policy Profiles, a free, browser-based tool that enables researchers to easily find, visualize, and share their work’s citations in policy documents worldwide, gained over 19,000 users by the end of 2024.
- We achieved a 52 percent reduction in our global emissions across our operations using 2019 as our baseline.
- In the US and UK combined, the 67 percent of leadership roles held by women matches the percentage of women in sage’s workforce.
- We were the first publisher to adopt Dimensions Author Check, a tool that helps us review author networks and publication histories, making it easier to spot patterns of misconduct and paper mill activity.
- Our US and UK employees dedicated over 1600 hours to nonprofits and charities through volunteer initiatives.
- More than 200 participants at the annual ALA Conference read passages from their favorite banned books at the Sage-sponsored “Banned Books from the Big Chair” event in support of the freedom to read.
“Looking back at our 2024 milestones, we recognize that our independence as a publisher paved the way for these achievements — developing resources that foster sharper thinking skills in students, forging meaningful relationships with partners who share our values, publishing social science that creates a more inclusive and equitable society,” reflects Blaise Simqu. “This work starts from the inside out by operating mindfully and efficiently and making sure our workplaces are environments where people of all backgrounds belong and can thrive, and they represent incredible work from our talented staff. I am proud of what where we stand at the end of our first 60 years and look forward to the next 60 and beyond.”
