Narrative Inquiry (journal)

For the bioethics journal, see Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics.

Narrative Inquiry is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by John Benjamins Publishing Company covering work on narrative. It was established in 1991 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates as the Journal of Narrative and Life History and obtained its current title in 1998 when it moved to its present publisher.^[1] The editors-in-chief are Dorien Van De Mieroop (KU Leuven) and Allyssa McCabe (University of Massachusetts Lowell).^[2]

Narrative Inquiry

Discipline	Narrative
Language	English
Edited by	Dorien Van De Mieroop, Allyssa McCabe
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of Narrative and Life History
History	1991-present
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Frequency	Biannual
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	0.583 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Narrat. Inq.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1387-6740 (print) 1569-9935 (web)
OCLC no.	645276565
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index^[3]
• Current Contents/Arts & Humanities^[3]
• Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences ^[3]
• EBSCO databases^[4]
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
• Modern Language Association Database^[4]
• ProQuest databases^[4]
• PsycINFO^[5]
• Scopus^[6]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[3]

Reception

The journal's most cited papers, as of 2022^[update] include:^[7]

• Bamberg, Michael (29 August 2006). "Stories: Big or small: Why do we care?". Narrative Inquiry. 16 (1): 139–147. doi:10.1075/ni.16.1.18bam.
• Georgakopoulou, Alexandra (29 August 2006). "Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis". Narrative Inquiry. 16 (1): 122–130. doi:10.1075/ni.16.1.16geo. S2CID 205389653.
• Baerger, Dana Royce; McAdams, Dan P. (1 January 1999). "Life Story Coherence and its Relation to Psychological Well-Being". Narrative Inquiry. 9 (1): 69–96. doi:10.1075/ni.9.1.05bae.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 0.583.^[8]