Memory Studies is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 that publishes papers four times a year in the field of Communication

Communication

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. The journal's editors are Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

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), Amanda Barnier (Macquarie University

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), Wulf Kansteiner (State University of New York

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) and John Sutton (Macquarie University

Macquarie University

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). It has been in publication since 2008 and is currently published by SAGE Publications

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Scope

Memory Studies aims to examine the social, cultural, political and technical shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember and forget. The journal provides a forum for debate on the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory.

Abstracting and indexing

Memory Studies is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:

• SCOPUS
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• Social Sciences Citation Index
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