a/b: Auto/Biography Studies

Aims & Scope

a /b: Auto/Biography Studies enjoys an international reputation for publishing the highest level of peer-reviewed scholarship in the fields of autobiography, biography, life narrative, and identity studies. a/b draws from a diverse community of global scholars to publish essays that further the scholarly discourse on historic and contemporary auto/biographical narratives.

For over thirty years, the journal has pushed ongoing conversations in the field in new directions and charted an innovative path into interdisciplinary and multimodal narrative analysis.

The journal accepts submissions of scholarly essays, review essays, and book reviews of critical and theoretical texts as well as proposals for special issues and essay clusters.

Submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to independent, anonymous peer review.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.138

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	25453

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	21

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Collaborative Autoethnography as Multivocal, Relational, and Democratic Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Aspirations

  Citation: 126

  Authors: Kathy-Ann C., Heewon, Faith W.

• It Matters What Stories Tell Stories; It Matters Whose Stories Tell Stories

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Donna

• Locating and Defining the Bio in Biofiction

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Michael

• Telling Tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and Transgender Biography

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Judith

• Looking on the Dark and Bright Side: Creative Metaphors of Depression in Two Graphic Memoirs

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Elisabeth

• Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Sidonie

• Sick Women, Sad Girls, and Selfie Theory: Autotheory as Contemporary Feminist Practice

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Lauren

• Refugee Comics and Migrant Topographies

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Candida

• Making the Case for Self-narration Against Autofiction

  Citation: 22

  Authors: Arnaud

• Writing the Lives of Plants: Phytography and the Botanical Imagination

  Citation: 19

  Authors: John Charles

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