OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Translation aesthetics as a site of negotiation: when classical Chinese women's literature goes global	45
‘You can book an interpreter the same way you order your Uber': (re)interpreting work and digital labour platforms	22
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	18
Teaching with untranslatables in The Beast and the Sovereign Volume I	15
What you see and what you hear: experiencing a translated Chinese food documentary	15
Latest trends in audiovisual translation	14
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media	12
Deaf translator’s visibility in political discourse: a dialogic positioning perspective	10
Press translation in the French Revolution: the case of Nicholas Madgett and John Sullivan	10
Investigating the impact of personalized headnotes for English-speaking audiences in viewing Chinese comedies	9
Davidson on indeterminacy and ‘passing theories’: need translators worry?	9
List of reviewers 2021–2022	9
Historical JTR: journalistic translation in the representation of Mussolini’s rise to power in two British newsbrands	8
Yan Fu’s translation ‘principle(s)’ and Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics	8
Translation support policies vs book industry practice in non-English settings	8
From ink to influence: analyzing the impact of media translations in late Qing China through media system dependency theory	8
Banal nationalism in translation: a case study of Egypt’s National Center for translation	8
Transmedia adaptation as translation: a Chinese classic and its afterlife in translated comics	8
Nothing will tear us apart? Uncovering grammatical features of Polish interpretese with supervised learning models	8
Text availability and the speaker’s visibility in simultaneous interpreting: effects on the process, product, and interpreters’ perceptions	7
Global or glocal heroes in PJs? A multimodal analysis of female superhero and villain depiction in dubbed children’s animation	7
The translator’s nested identities: translator studies and the auto/biographical turn	7
Translation as a soft power resource: exploring the possibilities, scope, and challenges of an interdisciplinary approach	7
The invisibility of the self-translator and its implications: between the nationalist paradigm of monolingualism and neoliberal language ideologies	7
A quantitative analysis of translators of Buddhist sutras into Chinese: composition and structural determinants	7

The professionalisation of translation practice: a systematic review of the literature	6
Unveiling translators through the archives	6
Paratextual visibility, relationality, and translatorship in the eighteenth century Dutch Republic: the case of Sybrand Feitama	6
Visible how? Contemporary views on the translator’s visibility	6
Positioning and authority construction through translational intertextuality in La Place’s Théâtre Anglois (1745–1749)	6
Ideological and legal foundations of translation censorship in Iran	6
Can video game subtitling shape player satisfaction?	6
Audio description in translation studies: the state of the field	6
From fragmentation to collaboration: building a multi-actor community for Al-Assisted translation	6
Quantitative research on what motivates Korean TED translators to translate	6
Of ghosts, soldiers and germs: Longfellow, translation and his nineteenth-century world	6
‘We should have a deep understanding’: reinstantiating cognitive processes in the translation of Chinese political discourse	5
Translating emotions: a netnography of affect in a conference interpreting case during COVID-19	5
The three-in-one role of scholar-retranslator-director: staging classic Chinese operas for English theatre	5
Scripted or spontaneous? Two approaches to audio describing visual art in museums	5
The making of a feminist writer: Kawakami Mieko in English	5
Transcending narratives of interpreting: interframing the 2020 U.S. presidential debate	5
Occupational stress and turnover intentions among simultaneous interpreters: the mediating role of burnout and the moderating role of grit	5
The displaced relationship between original and translated literature: a polysystem view of Nobel Literature Prize norms	4
A mixed methods approach to indirect translation. A case study of the Finnish translations of modern Greek prose 1952–2004	4
Translation, adaptation and digital media	4
‘Trauma informs so much of what happens:’ interpreting refugee-background clients in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Translation Tools and Technologies	4
Lexical borrowing in journalism in a time of political crisis	4
Fair: the life-art of translation	4
Argentine literature in English: publishing translations subsidized by PROSUR (2010–2020)	4
Translating Islam(ism) for a Muslim society: a novel ‘Intra- Ummah translation paradigm’ for Islamist translations in Turkey	4
A socio-biographical investigation on trajectory and primary habitus of Chinese digitally-born fan translators	4
The anatomy of a letter: a response to ‘A ‘Requiem’ for the short-lived democracy in Iran in the 1950s’	4
Towards a ‘cyberpunk translation’ for global cities: a study of Kowloon City in Hong Kong	4
Exploring information processing as a new research orientation beyond cognitive operations and their management in interpreting studies: taking stock and looking forward	4
An audience response study on Korean translation of culture-specific items in licensed musicals	4
‘Many different practices, one name.’ A semasiological counterweight to an onomasiological approach in search for a fuller phenomenology of translation	4
The invisible hand of Doctor Zhivago : reception of a soft power tool	4
Fourth time lucky? Retranslations of Erich Kästner's Emil und die Detektive	4
Empirical studies of translation and interpreting: The Post-Structuralist Approach	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 and localization of food menus on mobile delivery apps in the United Arab Emirates: a multimodal and reception study	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
Reconstructing the Chinese experience of translation in the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BCE)	3
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)	3
Russian literature in Iceland: the translation and reception of Osip Mandelstam in Iceland	3
The Routledge handbook of translation and methodology	3
Translation and race	3
Translating queer elements in Bohemian Rhapsody in China	3
Lost in compensation: pricing methods, rates, and income satisfaction among freelance translators in Belgium and Switzerland	3
Journalistic translation research twenty-five years on: methods, topics and prospects	3
Digitalisation, neo-Taylorism and translation in the 2020s	3
Translating Indigenous Knowledges—Toward a Sensuous Translation	3
The translators who shook the world: journalists and translators in the Russian Revolution	3

A survey-based study of healthcare interpreter attitudes toward theory and research, and their role in professional practice	3
Archaeology as cultural translation: unearthing and interpreting the artifacts of the long-lost	3
Bridging linguistic and cultural divides: institutional and interpersonal trust in interpreting the humanitarian crisis in Malawi	3
News headline reframing and tabloidization in Chinese social media: a case study of Reference News on the WeChat official account	3
Why is the quality of revision so low? Attempts to explain and tackle the situation	3
The translation of multimodal texts: challenges and theoretical approaches	3
The translation of food in Hong Lou Meng : a cross-linguistic study based on the English and French versions	3
Indirect translation in advertising: the case of Estrella Damm	3
Cosmopolitan Shakespeares in fin-de-siècle Belgian literature	3
This is not fiction: Russia and the Soviet Union in Finnish translated nonfiction in 2000–2023	2
Could research help revisers?	2
Cultural mediation through collaborative translation: James Legge and Wang Tao's joint rendering of Chinese classics in the nineteenth century	2
Secondhand China: Spain, the east, and the politics of translation	2
Cross-linguistic influence of English on conjunction system in translated Arabic: a multifactorial corpus-based study	2
The interpreter’s professional and metaphorical (in)visibility in fiction: an analysis on Suki Kim’s the interpreter	2
A tale of two disciplines? Philosophy in/on translation	2
Using annotated pivot templates to transfer culture specific references in audio description: translators’ performance, strategies, and attitudes	2
Implicit evaluation in ‘impartial’ reporting: translation in BBC News Russian during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine	2
The 1960s Bible: investigating discourse on a Swedish translation of the New Testament	2
Gender-fair translation: a case study beyond the binary	2
From street talk to screen: the usage and reception of youth language in Spanish dubbing	2
Translation: a ‘dark secret' of philosophy?	2
Paratextual (in)visibility in (self-)translations by Jhumpa Lahiri	2
Reconstructing the gendered subaltern subject: Chinese rural migrant women in literary translation	2
A corpus and questionnaire-based study of textual variables in the subtitling of taboo	2
Eye-voice span in sight interpreting: an eye-tracking investigation	2
‘I am not a number’: on quantification and algorithmic norms in translation	2
Deepseek, ChatGPT, and Gemini versus human subtitling: a case study in socio-cultural adaptation in multimedia communication	2
Persian game localization scene in Iran: taking stock	2
On translating Tintin au Congo in the twenty-first century	2
List of reviewers 2022–2023	2
Humanising Critical Journalistic Translation Studies: Insights from the Chinese Context	2
Soft power, ‘international literature’, and prizing the other: Restless Books and the Prize for New Immigrant Writing	2
Da (expressiveness) – the implicit thread of traditional Chinese translation theories	2
Translating food metaphors in Chinese literary discourse: a case study of Yu Hua’s The Seventh Day	2
Translation, heritage, and traveling memory: remembering Angkor in a thirteenth/fourteenth-century Chinese travel record and its three modern English renditions	2
Translators in the platform economy: a decent work perspective	2
Creativity in pivot audiovisual translation. Parasite subtitled and dubbed in Italian	2
Margin for interpretation: translation marginalia as reading-writing traces	2
Charting the landscape of remote medical interpreting: an international survey of interpreters working in remote modalities in healthcare services	2
Too late to trans-late? On belatedness and translation	2