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Translation Studies and Practices

Translation Studies and Practices is a research topic within Language and Linguistics. Science Explorer counts 50k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the theory and practice of translation studies, covering topics such as translator competence, corpus linguistics, globalization's impact on translation, cultural and literary translation, sociology of translation, machine translation, cross-cultural communication, and audiovisual translation.

  • Translation
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Translator Competence
  • Globalization
  • Cultural Translation
  • Literary Translation
  • Sociology of Translation
  • Machine Translation
  • Cross-Cultural Communication
  • Audiovisual Translation
Research works
50k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Translation Studies and Practices

Which countries lead Translation Studies and Practices research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 600 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 United States 600 works
  3. 3 Spain 599 works
  4. 4 France 477 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 468 works
  6. 6 Russia 436 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 394 works
  8. 8 Brazil 384 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 350 works
  10. 10 Italy 258 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 34.6%United States: 9.9%Spain: 9.9%France: 7.9%6 others listed: 37.7%35%largest
China2,103 · 34.6%United States600 · 9.9%Spain599 · 9.9%France477 · 7.9%6 others listed2,290 · 37.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Translation Studies and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Translation Studies and Practices research, followed by Universiti Sains Malaysia and Shanghai International Studies University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 109 works
  2. 2 Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 61 works
  3. 3 Shanghai International Studies UniversityChina 55 works
  4. 4 Guangdong University of Foreign StudiesChina 54 works
  5. 5 Universidad de MálagaSpain 51 works
  6. 6 Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 50 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 48 works
  8. 8 Universidad de SalamancaSpain 43 works
  9. 9 Universidad de GranadaSpain 40 works
  10. 10 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Translation Studies and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Translation Studies and Practices include George Davey Smith, Richard M. Ryan and Andrew Zisserman.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 255k citations
  4. 4 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  5. 5 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  6. 6 Kazuo Shinozaki Japan 170k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Translation Studies and Practices?

The most cited paper in Translation Studies and Practices is "Diglossia" (Charles A. Ferguson, 1959), with 3,051 citations. Next come "The Sketch Engine" (2,106) and "Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing" (1,986).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Diglossia Charles A. Ferguson · WORD Open access 1959 3,051
2 The Sketch Engine Adam Kilgarriff, Vít Baisa, Jan Bušta et al. · Lexicography Open access Jul 2014 2,106
3 Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing Jiandong Sun, Ken Hyland · TESOL Quarterly 2001 1,986
4 Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications Jeremy Munday Open access 8 Feb 2022 1,515
5 Qualitative Research and Translation Dilemmas Bogusia Temple, Alys M. Young · Qualitative Research Open access 5 Jul 2004 1,299
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Translation Studies and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Translation Studies and Practices research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Alcalá de Henares and Timișoara.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 198 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 197 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 186 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 153 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 131 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 118 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 104 works
  8. 8 TashkentUzbekistan 91 works
  9. 9 Hong KongChina 86 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 84 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Alcalá de HenaresES · 32.7 works16×
  2. TimișoaraRO · 48.3 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Translation Studies and Practices than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Translation Studies and Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Applied Science Private University, Universiti Sains Malaysia and Hong Kong Polytechnic University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%50%100%mean 27.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Applied Science Priv…Hong Kong Polytechni…Universiti Sains Mal…Shanghai Internation…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Applied Science Private UniversityJordan 80.371.8%29.0×20 +516.2%
2Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 64.820.0%10.4×61 +221.7%
3Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 63.638.3%3.8×29 +75.4%
4Shanghai International Studies UniversityChina 55.811.3%65.8×56 +175.9%
5Hong Kong Baptist UniversityChina 55.419.8%12.0×20 +76.5%
6Najran UniversitySaudi Arabia 55.449.7%10.4×9 +169.3%
7Universidad de MálagaSpain 55.38.8%18.2×51 +62.8%
8University College LondonUnited Kingdom 55.121.1%2.3×33 +24.9%
9Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 54.617.2%7.8×36 +655.1%
10King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 53.217.3%7.9×26 +60.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Translation Studies and Practices, country by country

Is Translation Studies and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Translation Studies and Practices.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Translation Studies and Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.046% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Translation Studies and Practices0.040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Translation Studies and Practices over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Translation Studies and Practices10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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