Sidonie Smith

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sidonie Smith is a scholar working on History, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Sidonie Smith has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in History, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Sidonie Smith's work include Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (6 papers), Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (5 papers) and Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (3 papers). Sidonie Smith is often cited by papers focused on Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (6 papers), Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (5 papers) and Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (3 papers). Sidonie Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Australia. Sidonie Smith's co-authors include Julia Watson, Mary Orr, Kay Schaffer, Shari Benstock, Linda Wagner‐Martin, Houston A. Baker, Leigh Gilmore and Nancy K. Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Modern Language Review and American Literature.

In The Last Decade

Sidonie Smith

29 papers receiving 880 citations

Hit Papers

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narr... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2004 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 Mary Orr, Sidonie Smith et al. The Modern Language Review profile →
  2. Human Rights and Narrated Lives
    2004 166 citations Kay Schaffer, Sidonie Smith Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sidonie Smith United States 13 654 500 237 180 141 37 1.4k
Julia Watson United States 11 468 0.7× 411 0.8× 157 0.7× 148 0.8× 76 0.5× 48 1.1k
Allon White 5 498 0.8× 376 0.8× 160 0.7× 138 0.8× 120 0.9× 8 1.4k
Ruth Leys United States 13 545 0.8× 222 0.4× 213 0.9× 211 1.2× 133 0.9× 29 1.5k
Debarati Sanyal India 7 504 0.8× 315 0.6× 157 0.7× 185 1.0× 147 1.0× 25 1.1k
Shoshana Felman United States 20 395 0.6× 431 0.9× 110 0.5× 235 1.3× 110 0.8× 60 1.3k
Paul John Eakin United States 14 395 0.6× 554 1.1× 187 0.8× 205 1.1× 59 0.4× 41 1.2k
Susan Gubar United States 17 575 0.9× 1.2k 2.4× 339 1.4× 230 1.3× 121 0.9× 72 2.1k
E. Ann Kaplan United States 16 431 0.7× 285 0.6× 129 0.5× 140 0.8× 92 0.7× 39 1.3k
Jonathan Boyarin United States 13 808 1.2× 430 0.9× 78 0.3× 164 0.9× 172 1.2× 59 1.8k
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg United States 13 641 1.0× 355 0.7× 470 2.0× 111 0.6× 228 1.6× 28 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sidonie Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sidonie Smith

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smith, Sidonie & Julia Watson. (2016). Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith & Watson Autobiography Studies Reader. 6 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Kay & Sidonie Smith. (2016). Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 47 indexed citations
3.
Smith, Sidonie. (2015). Manifesto for the Humanities. University of Michigan Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Smith, Sidonie. (2015). Manifesto for the Humanities. University of Michigan Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Sidonie, et al.. (2014). Behind the Pictures: An Interview with Joanne Leonard. a/b Auto/Biography Studies. 29(1). 11–25.
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Smith, Sidonie. (2012). “America's Exhibit A”: Hillary Rodham Clinton'sLiving Historyand the Genres of Authenticity. American Literary History. 24(3). 523–542. 3 indexed citations
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Smith, Sidonie. (2011). Narrating Lives. Profession. 2011(1). 5–12. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Sidonie. (2011). Narrating Lives and Contemporary Imaginaries. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 126(3). 564–574. 14 indexed citations
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Smith, Sidonie. (2010). Autobiographical Discourse in the Theaters of Politics. Biography. 33(1). v–xxvi. 8 indexed citations
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Smith, Sidonie & Julia Watson. (2004). Getting A Life. 18 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Kay & Sidonie Smith. (2004). Conjunctions: Life Narratives in the Field of Human Rights. Biography. 27(1). 1–24. 43 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Kay & Sidonie Smith. (2004). Venues of Storytelling: the circulation of testimony in human rights campaigns. Life Writing. 1(2). 3–26. 6 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Kay & Sidonie Smith. (2004). Human Rights and Narrated Lives. Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks. 166 indexed citations breakdown →
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Orr, Mary, Sidonie Smith, & Julia Watson. (2003). Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. The Modern Language Review. 98(3). 814–814. 481 indexed citations breakdown →
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Smith, Sidonie & Julia Watson. (2002). Reading Autobiography. University of Minnesota Press eBooks. 108 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Kay, et al.. (1999). Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader. World Literature Today. 73(2). 389–389. 4 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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Gilmore, Leigh, et al.. (1994). Theorizing the Personal, Personalizing Theory: Recent Works on Women's Autobiography. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 48(2). 177–177. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Sidonie. (1987). A poetics of women's autobiography. 48 indexed citations

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