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

468

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Scientific publications included in the project

2082

including 1584 peer-reviewed journal publications

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Dynamic cited bibliographies available

1644

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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: 133 publications
2021: 193 publications
2022: 179 publications
2023: 238 publications
2024: 293 publications
2025: 341 publications
2026: 287 publications

Recently added autistic authors and co-authors

Latest publications added

Fiona Duffy, Saffron Baldoza, Julian Baudinet, Ian Birch, Emma Broadhurst, Gina Dimitropoulos, Clare Ellison, Karri Gillespie-Smith, Rachel Loomes, Umairah Malik, Ellen Maloney*Autistic author. Learn more… , Lorraine Small, Kate Tchanturia, Iona Thomas Yates, Freya Nash, Amelia Austin (2026). Adapting eating disorder focused family therapy for Autistic children and young people with anorexia nervosa: evidence informed, co-produced clinical guidelines. Eating Disorders, 1-17.

Publication date: 29 Jul 2026 Added to AutiHub: 5 Aug 2026 Type: Article Language: English

Morrigan Hunter*Autistic author. Learn more… , Cherry Kaufman, Arkadiy Akhtenberg (2026). Envisioning Better Futures in Sexuality Education for Disabled People: A Critical Analysis Through the Lens of Disability Justice and the Neurodiversity Paradigm. In Disabilities, Pleasures, and Sexualities (pp. 95-123). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Publication date: 3 Aug 2026 Added to AutiHub: 5 Aug 2026 Type: Book chapter Language: English

Kathryn Ambrose, Kate Simpson, Elizabeth Pellicano, Melanie Heyworth*Autistic author. Learn more… , Jacquiline den Houting*Autistic author. Learn more… , Janneke Roth, Dawn Adams (2026). “Support Me to Take the Steps I Need, to Live the Life I Want, in Ways That Work for Me”: Perspectives of Autistic Adolescents on What is Important for Their Quality of Life. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Publication date: 30 Jul 2026 Added to AutiHub: 5 Aug 2026 Type: Article Language: English

Preprint version associated with this published version

Elizabeth Kilgallon*Autistic author. Learn more… , Sinéad O’Brien, Eliana Grossman, C. Donnan Gravelle, Patrick Dwyer*Autistic author. Learn more… , Rita Obeid, Ariana Riccio, Jimena Suárez, Aleena Arif, Grace Cordova‐Castellanos, Jin Delos Santos, Bella Kofner, Andrew Yan, Kristen Gillespie-Lynch (2026). Measuring what matters: Operationalizing neurodiversity‐affirming practices through participatory design of STEM workshops for autistic youth. Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 26(3).

Publication date: 1 Jul 2026 Added to AutiHub: 30 Jul 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., & Bergeron, A. (2026). Autistic Autism Scholarship Project (AASP): A Public Bibliographic Resource on Autism-Related Scholarship by Autistic Authors. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22179522