You would need the below information to harvest COUNTER 5 usage reports:

  • Requester ID
  • Customer ID
  • API key URL


To get this information, log in to secure center: https://securecenter.sagepub.com/ 


Your customer ID is displayed in the URL:



Go to the reports page. Your requester ID is available under the heading: "COUNTER 5 SUSHI Service "


Go to the URL: https://securecenter.sagepub.com/SushiService/swagger/index.html 


Enter the requester ID in the 'Authorize' tab in the top right:

Go to the desired report tab and hit Get. For this example I am choosing the TR report:


Enter Try it out and then enter your Customer ID and desired date range.


Hit 'Execute'


You should get your required JSON file which can be downloaded to be ingested in your SUSHI web service