Autistic Advocacy

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Petri, G. & Watts, G. (2026). Autistic Advocacy. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability (pp. 1-12). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40858-8_544-1

Publication date: 1 Jan 2026 Added to AutiHub: 7 Jul 2026 Type: Book chapter Article language: English
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Publication authors identified as autistic
1 / 2 (50.0%)
  1. Gábor Petri
  2. Georgina Watts *

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Cited references
67
With a DOI
46
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
21
15 / 67 (22.4%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
12 / 67 (17.9%)
References with detected author names
56 / 67 (83.6%)
Without detected author names
11
Without a structured title
12
Without a stable identifier
21
References with raw author names still to review
11
References with external metadata lookup issues
0
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Author names detected in the cited bibliography
151
From DOI or external metadata
150
From validated raw bibliography text
1
Raw names already validated
1
Raw names still to review
17
70 / 151 (46.4%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 81 / 151 (53.6%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
19 / 151 (12.6%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 19 / 70 (27.1%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 12 / 135 (8.9%).
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