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Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives-Studies in Translation Theory and Practice is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Translation aesthetics as a site of negotiation: when classical Chinese women's literature goes global	30
Latest trends in audiovisual translation	18
Revision and retranslation of children's classics in modern-day UK and Spain: The case of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five and Malory Towers	14
‘You can book an interpreter the same way you order your Uber': (re)interpreting work and digital labour platforms	14
What you see and what you hear: experiencing a translated Chinese food documentary	13
Note-taking effort in video remote interpreting: effects of source speech difficulty and interpreter work experience	10
Teaching with untranslatables in The Beast and the Sovereign Volume I	10
Translation support policies vs book industry practice in non-English settings	9
Deaf translator’s visibility in political discourse: a dialogic positioning perspective	9
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media	9
List of reviewers 2021–2022	8
Transmedia adaptation as translation: a Chinese classic and its afterlife in translated comics	8
Davidson on indeterminacy and ‘passing theories’: need translators worry?	8
Global or glocal heroes in PJs? A multimodal analysis of female superhero and villain depiction in dubbed children’s animation	8
Press translation in the French Revolution: the case of Nicholas Madgett and John Sullivan	8
From ink to influence: analyzing the impact of media translations in late Qing China through media system dependency theory	8
Yan Fu’s translation ‘principle(s)’ and Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics	6
Translation as a soft power resource: exploring the possibilities, scope, and challenges of an interdisciplinary approach	6
Historical JTR: journalistic translation in the representation of Mussolini’s rise to power in two British newsbrands	6
Text availability and the speaker’s visibility in simultaneous interpreting: effects on the process, product, and interpreters’ perceptions	6
Banal nationalism in translation: a case study of Egypt’s National Center for translation	6
Can video game subtitling shape player satisfaction?	6
The translator’s nested identities: translator studies and the auto/biographical turn	6
Quantitative research on what motivates Korean TED translators to translate	5
Of ghosts, soldiers and germs: Longfellow, translation and his nineteenth-century world	5

Positioning and authority construction through translational intertextuality in La Place’s Théâtre Anglois (1745–1749)	5
The invisibility of the self-translator and its implications: between the nationalist paradigm of monolingualism and neoliberal language ideologies	5
Scripted or spontaneous? Two approaches to audio describing visual art in museums	5
Unveiling translators through the archives	5
Opera in Translation: Unity and Diversity	5
The professionalisation of translation practice: a systematic review of the literature	5
Path-generating moves in professional identity building: marriage migrant community interpreters and their institutional environments in South Korea	4
The three-in-one role of scholar-retranslator-director: staging classic Chinese operas for English theatre	4
Exploring information processing as a new research orientation beyond cognitive operations and their management in interpreting studies: taking stock and looking forward	4
Argentine literature in English: publishing translations subsidized by PROSUR (2010–2020)	4
Translation, adaptation and digital media	4
Translating emotions: a netnography of affect in a conference interpreting case during COVID-19	4
‘We should have a deep understanding’: reinstantiating cognitive processes in the translation of Chinese political discourse	4
Towards a ‘cyberpunk translation’ for global cities: a study of Kowloon City in Hong Kong	4
Translating Islam(ism) for a Muslim society: a novel ‘Intra- Ummah translation paradigm’ for Islamist translations in Turkey	4
The displaced relationship between original and translated literature: a polysystem view of Nobel Literature Prize norms	4
Ideological and legal foundations of translation censorship in Iran	4
Occupational stress and turnover intentions among simultaneous interpreters: the mediating role of burnout and the moderating role of grit	4
Dubbing feminist discourse in Disney films for Arab audiences: Frozen as a case study	4
An audience response study on Korean translation of culture-specific items in licensed musicals	4
A mixed methods approach to indirect translation. A case study of the Finnish translations of modern Greek prose 1952–2004	4
Digitalisation, neo-Taylorism and translation in the 2020s	3
Why is the quality of revision so low? Attempts to explain and tackle the situation	3
The anatomy of a letter: a response to ‘A ‘Requiem’ for the short-lived democracy in Iran in the 1950s’	3
A socio-biographical investigation on trajectory and primary habitus of Chinese digitally-born fan translators	3
USIS-funded literary translation in Hong Kong in the Cultural Cold War: a study of literary translations in World Today (1949-1952)	3
Bloglator in the era of social media: a case study of the reports about the ‘tragically ugly’ math textbooks on What’s on Weibo	3
The invisible hand of Doctor Zhivago : reception of a soft power tool	3
Exploring the potential of GPT-4 as an interactive transcreation assistant in game localisation: A case study on the translation of Pokémon names	3
Translation Tools and Technologies	3
‘Trauma informs so much of what happens:’ interpreting refugee-background clients in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
Lexical borrowing in journalism in a time of political crisis	3
Journalistic translation research twenty-five years on: methods, topics and prospects	3
Translating queer elements in Bohemian Rhapsody in China	3
Bridging translation theory and practice	3
The translation of multimodal texts: challenges and theoretical approaches	3
‘Many different practices, one name.’ A semasiological counterweight to an onomasiological approach in search for a fuller phenomenology of translation	3
Fourth time lucky? Retranslations of Erich Kästner's Emil und die Detektive	3
The use of context in multiword-term translation	3
¿Pasarán? Kommunikation im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg. Interacting with the Spanish Civil War	2
Russian literature in Iceland: the translation and reception of Osip Mandelstam in Iceland	2
Persian game localization scene in Iran: taking stock	2
Translation: a ‘dark secret' of philosophy?	2
Gender-fair translation: a case study beyond the binary	2
Margin for interpretation: translation marginalia as reading-writing traces	2
Indirect translation in advertising: the case of Estrella Damm	2
Soft power, ‘international literature’, and prizing the other: Restless Books and the Prize for New Immigrant Writing	2
Formulating a terminology for source document profiling through a literature review: from functionalist to documentational approaches*	2
Charting the landscape of remote medical interpreting: an international survey of interpreters working in remote modalities in healthcare services	2
Translation and race	2

This is not fiction: Russia and the Soviet Union in Finnish translated nonfiction in 2000–2023	2
The translation of food in Hong Lou Meng : a cross-linguistic study based on the English and French versions	2
Interactive reception of online literary translation: the translator-readers dynamics in a discussion forum	2
From street talk to screen: the usage and reception of youth language in Spanish dubbing	2
Too late to trans-late? On belatedness and translation	2
Cosmopolitan Shakespeares in fin-de-siècle Belgian literature	2
Book translation policy of China Foreign Languages Bureau from 1949 to 1999: a historical and bibliometric perspective	2
The Routledge handbook of translation and methodology	2
Translation history, translators’ stories	2
Could research help revisers?	2
On translating Tintin au Congo in the twenty-first century	2
Revision as an emerging subfield in Translation Studies	2
The 1960s Bible: investigating discourse on a Swedish translation of the New Testament	2
Translating Indigenous Knowledges—Toward a Sensuous Translation	2
Translation and localization of food menus on mobile delivery apps in the United Arab Emirates: a multimodal and reception study	2
A survey-based study of healthcare interpreter attitudes toward theory and research, and their role in professional practice	2
Secondhand China: Spain, the east, and the politics of translation	2
List of reviewers 2022–2023	2
The translators who shook the world: journalists and translators in the Russian Revolution	2
Measuring translation revision competence and post-editing competence in translation trainees: methodological issues	2
Empirical studies of translation and interpreting: The Post-Structuralist Approach	2
Moving forward to improve SDH: the needs of Spanish audiences	2
Something between a colleague and a tool: exploring the complex nexus between the role, responsibilities, and expectations of language assistants in multinational police settings in Kosovo (1999–2018)	2
Deepseek, ChatGPT, and Gemini versus human subtitling: a case study in socio-cultural adaptation in multimedia communication	2