Autistic Autism Scholarship Project

The Autistic Autism Scholarship Project is an international collaborative project that provides a public, freely accessible database of academic publications on autism authored or co-authored by at least one autistic person.

The project aims to make autistic people’s contributions to knowledge about autism more visible, accessible and researchable. It provides structured ways to explore authors and co-authors, publications, bibliographic metadata, cited references and collaboration networks.

Bibliographic records are imported from scholarly metadata services and then progressively checked, completed or corrected. Because author attribution in large bibliographic databases can be ambiguous, AutiHub uses additional safeguards such as ORCID identifiers, DOI metadata, Crossref and DataCite records, co-authorship patterns, Semantic Scholar author identifiers and manual review when needed.

The project also examines cited bibliographies when metadata are available, making it possible to reconstruct references, identify cited authors, and produce statistics about the visibility of autistic researchers in the references used by autism-related publications.

Autistic Autism Scholarship Project is supported by a community that helps correct, discuss and progressively improve the information it provides.

The project does not aim to assess or endorse the quality, validity, theoretical orientation or social implications of the works it includes.

From the word autism

Project co-maintainers

Displayed alphabetically by name.

Alyssa Hillary Zisk Co-maintainer United States AutiHub author page
Anick Bergeron Co-maintainer Canada https://autistes.zone/
Cédric Detienne Project initiator and co-maintainer Belgium
Panda Mery Co-maintainer South Korea https://gizmonaut.net/

Overview

Autistic people recorded as authors or co-authors

449

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Scientific publications included in the project

2049

including 1555 peer-reviewed journal publications

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Dynamic cited bibliographies available

1616

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Publications by year

2000: 4 publications
2002: 1 publications
2003: 2 publications
2004: 2 publications
2005: 3 publications
2006: 8 publications
2007: 7 publications
2008: 6 publications
2009: 9 publications
2010: 10 publications
2011: 17 publications
2012: 22 publications
2013: 24 publications
2014: 23 publications
2015: 35 publications
2016: 32 publications
2017: 46 publications
2018: 55 publications
2019: 112 publications
2020: 132 publications
2021: 188 publications
2022: 177 publications
2023: 228 publications
2024: 288 publications
2025: 336 publications
2026: 282 publications

Recently added autistic authors and co-authors

Latest publications added

Claire Johnston*Autistic author. Learn more… , Patty Douglas (2026). ‘Thinking differently’: an interview with Claire Johnston about Métis understandings of autism. In Disability in a Turbulent Era (pp. 166-176). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Publication date: 17 Aug 2026 Added to AutiHub: 12 Sep 2026 Type: Book chapter Language: English

Corinna Newton, Kristelle Hudry, Alexandra Aulich, Catherine Bent, Christos Constantine*Autistic author. Learn more… , Kathleen Franks, Nilushi Goonetilleke, Cherie Green, Rabia Ijaz, Emily Ma, Kanisha Patel, Helen Said, Rena Wang, Sarah Wood, Jodie Smith (2025). “Individualisation is key”: Autism intervention professionals’ experiences of working with minority ethnic families in Australia. Research in Autism, 126, 202655.

Publication date: 1 Jul 2025 Added to AutiHub: 12 Sep 2026 Type: Article Language: English

Ava N. Gurba*Autistic author. Learn more… , Katherine Gore, Catherine Bent, Shoba S. Meera, Cherie Green, Rachel Jellett, Katherine E. MacDuffie, Jonathan Green, Kathryn Fordyce, Christos Constantine*Autistic author. Learn more… , Patrick Dwyer*Autistic author. Learn more… , Jodie Smith, Alexandra Aulich, Kristelle Hudry, Lyndel Kennedy, Lauren N. Ayton, Aspasia Stacey Rabba, Lucas T. Harrington, Linda R. Watson, Andrew Whitehouse, Esther Fidock (2026). Autistic and autism community perspectives on infant and family support in the first two years of life: Findings from a community consultation survey. UNC Libraries.

Publication date: 20 Aug 2026 Added to AutiHub: 12 Sep 2026 Type: Article Language: English

Susan M. Darker-Smith, Anna Clarke*Autistic author. Learn more… (2024). Coping With “Difference”: Neurodiversity-Affirming Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy for Autistic and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Clients With Eating Disorders. In Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders. Springer Publishing Company.

Publication date: 1 Mar 2024 Added to AutiHub: 11 Sep 2026 Type: Book chapter Language: English

Catherine Dakin*Autistic author. Learn more… , Julia Hopper/Caro, Glenn Westropp (2026). Co-Producing Neurodivergence-Informed System Change: Establishing a Novel Trust-Wide Medical Specialist Neurodivergence Advisory Role and Framework in Mental Health Services in Essex. BJPsych Open, 12(S1), S147-S147.

Publication date: 1 Jun 2026 Added to AutiHub: 11 Sep 2026 Type: Article Language: English

Suggested citation for the Autistic Autism Scholarship Project (APA 7th edition)

Open Zenodo record

Detienne, C., Zisk, A. H., & Mery, P. (2026). Autistic Scholars Project: A Public Bibliographic Resource on Autism-Related Scholarship by Autistic Authors. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22179522