[4] SAGE Publishing is an independent company which was created by Sara Miller McCune and Georges D. McDune in 1965.

SAGE Publications is a worldwide company which has more than 1,500 employees mostly based in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington, D.C.

They have expanded their topics into engineering and medicine, but most of people know SAGE Publications as the social sciences publisher in the world.

SAGE Publications grows by taking risks such as making research and discourse analysis about the African phenomena.

[citation needed] The American Journal of Evaluation features broad, multidisciplinary perspectives on issues in the field of evaluation as relevant to education, public administration, behavioral sciences, human services, health sciences, sociology, criminology and other disciplines and professional practice fields.

[10] The impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period.