Life Writing
Impact in
- Literature and Literary Theory top 10%
- Autobiographical and Biographical Writing
- Narrative Theory and Analysis
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
- Contemporary Literature and Criticism
Papers in
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- Autobiographical and Biographical Writing 96
- Narrative Theory and Analysis 41
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies 24
- Contemporary Literature and Criticism 20
- History 81
In The Last Decade
Life Writing
292 papers receiving 955 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 96
- Literature and Literary Theory 357
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts 89
- History 155
- Gender Studies 135
- Sociology and Political Science 592
Countries where authors publish in Life Writing
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Fields of papers published in Life Writing
This network shows the impact of papers published in Life Writing. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Life Writing.
About Life Writing
The 516 papers published in Life Writing in the last decades have received a total of 1.4k indexed citations . Papers published in Life Writing usually cover Literature and Literary Theory (182 papers), History (81 papers), Visual Arts and Performing Arts (37 papers), Philosophy (54 papers) and Cultural Studies (40 papers) specifically the topics of Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (96 papers), Narrative Theory and Analysis (41 papers), Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (37 papers), Data Analysis and Archiving (27 papers), Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (24 papers), Contemporary Literature and Criticism (20 papers), Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (17 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (16 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Life Writing are Liz Stanley, Matti Hyvärinen, G. Thomas Couser, Maria Tamboukou, Margaretta Jolly, Stevi Jackson, Ashley Barnwell, Celia Hunt, Gillian Whitlock and Zhengdao Ye.
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