Julia Watson

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Julia Watson is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Visual Arts and Performing Arts. According to data from OpenAlex, Julia Watson has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Recurrent topics in Julia Watson's work include Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (9 papers), Comics and Graphic Narratives (6 papers) and Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (4 papers). Julia Watson is often cited by papers focused on Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (9 papers), Comics and Graphic Narratives (6 papers) and Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (4 papers). Julia Watson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Julia Watson's co-authors include Sidonie Smith, Mary Orr, Sidonie Smith, Susan H. Swetnam, Suzanne Stevenson, Carl E. Nielsen, Ari Rabl, Joseph D. Tucker, Weiming Tang and Maria Normark and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Solar Energy and Cognitive Science.

In The Last Decade

Julia Watson

37 papers receiving 702 citations

Hit Papers

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narr... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives
    2003 481 citations Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Julia Watson United States 11 468 411 157 148 135 48 1.1k
Sidonie Smith United States 13 654 1.4× 500 1.2× 237 1.5× 180 1.2× 102 0.8× 37 1.4k
Paul John Eakin United States 14 395 0.8× 554 1.3× 187 1.2× 205 1.4× 97 0.7× 41 1.2k
Allon White 5 498 1.1× 376 0.9× 160 1.0× 138 0.9× 102 0.8× 8 1.4k
Mary Orr United Kingdom 8 290 0.6× 307 0.7× 115 0.7× 117 0.8× 70 0.5× 52 813
Shoshana Felman United States 20 395 0.8× 431 1.0× 110 0.7× 235 1.6× 129 1.0× 60 1.3k
Kaja Silverman 11 249 0.5× 272 0.7× 101 0.6× 126 0.9× 142 1.1× 31 938
Debarati Sanyal India 7 504 1.1× 315 0.8× 157 1.0× 185 1.3× 87 0.6× 25 1.1k
Leigh Gilmore United States 12 306 0.7× 258 0.6× 95 0.6× 103 0.7× 77 0.6× 41 717
E. Ann Kaplan United States 16 431 0.9× 285 0.7× 129 0.8× 140 0.9× 136 1.0× 39 1.3k
Griselda Pollock United Kingdom 15 353 0.8× 180 0.4× 187 1.2× 97 0.7× 317 2.3× 121 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Julia Watson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Julia Watson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julia Watson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Julia Watson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Julia Watson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Julia Watson. Julia Watson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Watson, Julia. (2025). Celebrating the 40th Anniversary Issue of a/b : An Autobiographical Foreword. a/b Auto/Biography Studies. 40(2). 337–344.
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Watson, Julia, et al.. (2023). What social attitudes about gender does BERT encode? Leveraging insights from psycholinguistics. 6790–6809. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia, et al.. (2023). Investigating Online Community Engagement through Stancetaking. 5814–5830. 1 indexed citations
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Hansson, Karin, Shaowen Bardzell, Aparajita Bhandari, et al.. (2023). A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder: Theories and methods that can make a difference. 476–480. 4 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia. (2022). Synthetic Biology: State Regulation in the Biomedical Context. American Journal of Law & Medicine. 48(4). 447–468. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia, et al.. (2021). Coin it up: Generalization of creative constructions in the wild. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia, et al.. (2020). Coloring Outside the Lines: Error Patterns in Children's Acquisition of Color Terms.. Cognitive Science.
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Tucker, Joseph D., Peipei Zhao, Bolin Cao, et al.. (2019). Linking young men who have sex with men (YMSM) to STI physicians: a nationwide cross-sectional survey in China. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia, et al.. (2017). Semantic Typology and Parallel Corpora: Something about Indefinite Pronouns.. Cognitive Science. 7 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia. (2017). Hillary L. Chute. Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2016.. Studies in 20th & 21st century literature. 42(1).
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Watson, Julia. (2015). Patti Smith Kicks In the Walls of Memoir: Relational Lives and “the Right Voice” inJust Kids. a/b Auto/Biography Studies. 30(1). 131–151. 4 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia. (2012). Visual Diary as Prosthetic Practice in Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings. Biography. 35(1). 21–44. 3 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia. (2007). Ousmane Sembene: A Memorial Tribute. Research in African Literatures. 38(4). 4–6.
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Watson, Julia. (2002). Charlotte Salomon’s Memory Work in the “Postscript” toLife? or Theatre?. Signs. 28(1). 409–420. 5 indexed citations
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Smith, Sidonie & Julia Watson. (2002). Reading Autobiography. University of Minnesota Press eBooks. 108 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia. (1997). Unruly Bodies: Autoethnography and Authorization in Nafissatou Diallo's 'De Tilene au Plataeu (A Dakar Childhood). Research in African Literatures. 28(2). 34–56. 6 indexed citations
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Smith, Sidonie & Julia Watson. (1996). Getting A Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 134 indexed citations
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Watson, Julia, et al.. (1988). Book Reviews. a/b Auto/Biography Studies. 4(1). 64–89.

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