Autism
Autism is a highly-regarded, peer-reviewed, international journal, featuring research of direct and practical relevance to help improve the quality of life of autistic individuals and those with closely-related diagnoses.
Please select AIMS & SCOPE above for more details including the criteria on which editors make their decisions.
All issues of Autism are available to browse online.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/autism
Autism is a highly-regarded, peer-reviewed, international journal, published 12 times a year, featuring research of direct and practical relevance to help improve the quality of life of autistic individuals and those with closely-related diagnoses. This may sometimes include work focused on the families and allies of autistic people, and on practitioners who work with autistic people, since they play a key role in supporting good outcomes.
The journal is proudly international and encourages submissions from across the globe. To help address persistent lack of global representation of autism scholars, and to ensure that work is grounded in the context it describes, it is essential that manuscripts have author representation from the country where the work took place.
Autism provides a high-quality, international forum for peer-reviewed research of direct and practical relevance to the autism community. The journal applies rigorous peer review and expects high-quality reporting standards. The journal's success and popularity reflect the recent worldwide growth in the research and understanding of autism, and the consequent impact on the provision of care and support strategies.
Autism is interdisciplinary in nature, focusing on evaluative research in many areas, including:
- intervention development and evaluation
- diagnosis, including co-occurring diagnoses, and sub-groups
- training and education
- social sciences
- longitudinal, cohort and routine data analyses
- translational and / or applied neuroscience
- psychological processes with real-world relevance
- quality of life issues
- family issues and family services
- medical and genetic issues with clear and short-term practical relevance
- epidemiological research
It is journal policy for all submitted manuscripts to be screened by an Editor who will decide whether to send the manuscript for review. In this screening process, Editors will focus on:
FIT with the journal Aims and Scope (described above), and listed Article Types (see Preparing your Manuscript for Submission), including meeting our expected reporting requirements, sharing participatory methods when used, positionality when possible, and adhering to specific standards for clinical trials and systematic reviews.
RELEVANCE to autistic people’s quality of life, including research that is proximal to implementation or otherwise informative for meaningful and relevant service provision. This can also include fundamental discoveries if these are sufficiently robust, high-quality and connected with real-world concerns, that they are worthy of the attention of the autism community.
JUSTIFICATION of the research question, including whether it addresses identified needs in existing global scholarship, and the extent to which the work submitted aligns with the needs and priorities of autistic and autism communities around the world.
QUALITY of the data collection and analysis methods for the topic under study, with consideration of whether the methodological and analytical choices are appropriate and robust in answering the research question(s).
VALIDITY of the conclusions in relation to the methods and findings, including whether claims are proportionate, grounded in the data presented and make some attempt to consider relevance beyond the region and / or setting where the work took place.
CLARITY of the writing, including language and terminology choices consistent with our journal’s respective and affirming language guidelines found here and here.
IMPACT, originality and contribution to knowledge, including whether the work presented is significant and useful and whether it advances understanding, theory or practice in novel ways beyond what is currently known.
All issues of Autism are available to browse online.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
| Sue Fletcher-Watson | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Kristen Bottema-Beutel | Boston College, USA |
| Rachael Davis | Queen Margaret University, UK |
| Megan Freeth | The University of Sheffield, UK |
| Sheffali Gulati | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India |
| Clare Harrop | UNC School of Medicine, USA |
| Rosa Hoekstra | Kings College London, UK |
| Meng-Chuan Lai | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Kathy Leadbitter | University of Manchester, UK |
| Iliana Magiati | University of Western Australia, Australia |
| Cathy Manning | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Shoba S. Meera | National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India |
| Dheeraj Rai | Bristol Medical School, UK |
| Yu-Wei Ryan Chen | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Lizzie Shephard | University of São Paulo, Brazil |
| Jessica Suhrheinrich | San Diego State University, USA |
| Julie Lounds-Taylor | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Patrick Dwyer | Latrobe University, Australia |
| Hannah Morton | UNC School of Medicine, USA |
| Patricia Howlin | King’s College London, UK |
| Rita Jordan | University of Birmingham , UK |
| Katie Maras | University of Bath, UK |
| Catherine Crompton | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Keren MacLennan | Bath University, UK |
| Dawn Adams | Griffith University, Australia |
| Dorota Ali | Kings College London, UK |
| Tony Attwood | Griffith University, Queensland, Australia |
| Vanessa Bal | Rutgers University, USA |
| Sander Begeer | Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist | Södertörn University, Sweden |
| Somer Bishop | University of California, USA |
| Lauren Bishop-Fitzpatrick | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Melissa Black | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Sven Bölte | Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| Monique Botha | University of Stirling, UK |
| Ariel Cascio | Michigan State University, USA |
| Tony Charman | Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK |
| Catherine Wing Chee So | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Chung-Hsin Chiang | National Chengchi University, Taiwan |
| Laura Crane | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Michelle Dean | CSU Channel Islands, USA |
| Gauri Divan | Sangath, India |
| Mary Doherty | Our Lady’s Hospital, Ireland |
| Naomi Ekas | Texas Christian University, USA |
| Terje Falck-Ytter | Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and Uppsala University, Sweden |
| Thomas Frazier | John Caroll University, USA |
| Christopher Gillberg | University of Göteborg, Sweden |
| Kristen Gillespie-Lynch | City University of New York, USA |
| Emma Gowen | The University of Manchester, UK |
| Jason Griffin | The University of Houston, USA |
| Quentin Guillon | University of Toulouse, France |
| Brittany Hand | Ohio State University, USA |
| Dougal Hare | Cardiff University, Wales, UK |
| Michal Harty | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Darren Hedley | Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, La Trobe University, Australia |
| Kristelle Hudry | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Laura Hull | University of Bristol, UK |
| Brooke Ingersoll | Michigan State University, USA |
| Ulf Jonsson | Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
| Steven Kapp | University of Portsmouth, UK |
| Anne Kirby | University of Utah, USA |
| Mikhail Kissine | University College London, UK; Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Luc Lecavalier | Ohio State University, USA |
| Jiedi Lei | Oxford University, UK |
| Lucy Livingston | Kings College London, UK |
| Jill Locke | University of Washington, USA |
| Brenna Maddox | University of North Carolina, USA |
| David Mandell | University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, USA |
| Will Mandy | University College London, UK |
| Richard Mills | Research Autism London UK and Bond University, Gold Coast Australia |
| Damian Milton | University of Kent, UK |
| Dr Angelina Kakooza- Mwesige | Makerere University, Uganda |
| Melanie Pellecchia | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Liz Pellicano | University College London, UK |
| Bec Poulsen | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Eric Rubenstein | Boston University, USA |
| Noah Sasson | University of Texas at Dallas, USA |
| Felicity Sedgewick | University of Bristol, UK |
| Cory Shulman | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Leann Smith DaWalt | Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Mikle South | Yale University, USA |
| Aubyn Stahmer | University of California-Davis MIND Institute, USA |
| Michele Villalobos | University of North Carolina, USA |
| Gregory Wallace | The George Washington University, USA |
| Zachary Warren | Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), USA |
| Jeremy Veenstra-Vander Weele | Columbia University, USA |
| Zachary Williams | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Lonnie Zwaigenbaum | University of Alberta, Canada |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.