A video abstract is a short video that appears at the top of
your article that highlights the key findings of your work.
It’s a very effective means of making your article stand out
and encourage readership of your work.
It makes for a great promotional tool that can be shared on
a variety of social media channels, by you and Sage.
Animations and narrated slide decks give you the freedom to
explain your research in a visual manner, adding impact to
your findings.
Video Abstracts will be peer-reviewed, so make sure that all
material in your Video Abstract directly supports the
conclusions of your article and stays within the scope of
your research.
For manuscripts that are already published, Sage will be
unable to publish your video abstract alongside the
manuscript. However, for manuscripts that have not yet been
published, Sage can publish your video abstract alongside
your manuscript, once you have had the script peer-reviewed
by the journal, incorporated the suggested changes, if any,
and then submitted the final video files to the journal to
be published. We can help you incorporate the changes
suggested by the journal, if any, in the video abstract.
Please let your sage Editor know prior to acceptance of your
article if you want to publish a video abstract alongside
your manuscript.
Our production team will find the below inputs useful:
- Your accepted manuscript
- Original, high-resolution image files, if any
- Supplementary tables and figures
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Supporting material such as PowerPoint presentations,
slide decks, or posters that capture the essence of the
source content and help distil the take-home message
(We accept most compatible file types as long as the file
size is limited to 100 MB.)
Note: We cannot host the video abstract
along with the article on the Sage Journal website if the
article has already been published
Our production team will find the below inputs useful:
- Your accepted or revised research paper
- Original, high-resolution image files, if any
- Supplementary tables and figures
-
Supporting material such as PowerPoint presentations,
slide decks, or posters that capture the essence of the
source content and help distil the take-home message
(We accept most compatible file types as long as the file
size is limited to 100 MB.)
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Note: For your video to be hosted along
with your manuscript on Sage Journal websites, we’ll need
a video script that is peer-reviewed by the journal for
creating the Video Abstract.
For this, we can support you in the following ways:
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If you have a video script ready, please share it with the
journal at the time of submission of your paper and have
the video script peer reviewed as well.
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If you don’t have a Video Script, we can write this for
you. Please provide us with your revised manuscript (so
that any changes requested by the reviewers have already
been incorporated). We’ll then prepare the video script
and share it with you; you should submit the video script
to the journal along with your revised manuscript so that
they can be peer-reviewed by the journal. Once the peer
review is done, we can incorporate any journal-suggested
changes and deliver the final files back to you.
We will send you the first draft of the video abstract
script for approval. We will begin with voiceover and
animation only once we know you are happy with the content.
For published manuscripts, we will share the below tools
with you for self-promotion:
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Suggested description text for Facebook, Twitter, and
LinkedIn
- Social media hashtags
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Search engine optimized alt text for the video abstract
- Link to your article DOI
For manuscripts that have not yet been published, as well as
the above-listed self-promotion tools, Sage can also publish
your video abstract with your manuscript. However, this can
only be done if a video script, peer-reviewed by the
journal, was submitted to us for creating the video
abstract. In a case where you don’t have a peer-reviewed
video script, we can create a video script for you, which
needs to be submitted to the journal for peer-review, and
then shared with us for creating the video abstract.
Please let your Sage Editor know prior to acceptance of your
article if you want to publish a video abstract alongside
your manuscript.
