Journal profile
Avtobiografija
ISSN 2281-6992 · Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - Università di Padova · Italy
Avtobiografija: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 16 weeks (community reports).
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Avtobiografija is published by Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - Università di Padova. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies, Autobiographical and Biographical Writing and Soviet and Russian History, together about 58.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
«AvtobiografiЯ» is a journal devoted to the works that deal with the representation of the self in Russian culture. The journal analyzes the Russian theoretical and artistic autobiographical production following Western research and approaches. It combines different but, at the same time, rich and complex traditions. The first, that of the Western and above all the French and Anglo-Saxon context, where themes related to autobiography and memoirs writing have been constantly and consistently studied in the last fifty years. The second, the Russian tradition, whose wide corpus has been studied to date in a sometimes successful but overall fragmented way. «AvtobiografiЯ», an international and peer-reviewed online journal, follows the model of similar journals issued in Europe and in the United States that are devoted to national or supranational cultures, such as the journal of the European section of the International Autobiography and Biography Association «European Journal of Life Writing» The name of our journal combines both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabet, thus underlining the intention of promoting the exchange and reciprocal integration between Western and Eastern cultures. The idea of an open access journal is aimed at reducing the main gaps in the studies on autobiographical and memoirs genres in the Russian context, i.e. their excessive fragmentariness and, consequently, their scarce availability, usually found published in local journals. The aim of the journal is to grasp the mysteries of the ‘Russian soul’ and to implement the international dialogue through the multifaceted affirmation of the self: all the staff of «AvtobiografiЯ» are dedicated to the above goal and would like to encourage other scholars to contribute to our exploration of auto/biography and the representation of the self in Russian contexts.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Russian Literature and Bakhtin StudiesSocial Sciences25%
- Autobiographical and Biographical WritingArts and Humanities25%
- Soviet and Russian HistorySocial Sciences8.3%
- Contemporary Literature and CriticismArts and Humanities8.3%
- Poetry Analysis and CriticismArts and Humanities8.3%
- Narrative Theory and AnalysisArts and Humanities8.3%
- Memory, Trauma, and TestimonyPsychology8.3%
- Vladimir Nabokov Literary StudiesSocial Sciences8.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: MLA International Bibliography
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- No other fees
- Page charges
- No page charges
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted3
- articlePapersLength not stated
- interviewInterview with Egana DzhabbarovaLength not stated
- reviewReviewsLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Publication ethics Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
AvtobiografiЯ firmly believes that it is important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author(s), the journal editors, the peer reviewer(s). It is therefore fundamental that all parties involved read carefully this statement, based on Elsevier recommendations, SAGE and COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.Avtob…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Model summary
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Statement
Readers are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND license
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Submissions are evaluated within three months Model summary
Submissions are evaluated within three months
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - Università di Padova
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- English, French, Russian, Italian
- ISSN
- 2281-6992
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Avtobiografija
How long does peer review take at Avtobiografija?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Avtobiografija?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Avtobiografija is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Avtobiografija open access, and what is the APC?
Avtobiografija is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .