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Papers

(The median citation count of Translator is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
When Free was captured in Albanian: self-translation into the mother tongue	21
Semiotic agency: science beyond mechanism	10
In a wilderness of mirrors: the ethics of translation in Cold-War espionage	8
Negotiation, power and ethics in online collaborative translation: translation of “COVID-19” by Wikipedia translator-editors	7
Translation as image rewriting: the case of Chinese red novels	5
From Jiří Levý’s model of translatorial decision-making to Optimality Theory: an application to legal translation	4
Relational approaches and translation studies: an interdisciplinary dialogue	4
Translating the plural text: Samuel Beckett in Persian	4
Who says who interprets? On the possible existence of an interpreter system	3
The interpreters of the Brazilian Indigenous Protection Service – SPI (1910-1967): a study of power and (un)awareness	3
Beyond the translator’s invisibility: critical reflections and new perspectives	3
Translating and rewriting Ferrante’sMy Brilliant Friendat the National Theatre	3
Translating for museums, galleries, and heritage sites	3
Translation and the tabloidization of the New York Times in Spanish	3
Revisiting risk management in online collaborative literary translation: ethical insights from the Chinese context	3
Translators’ distributed selves and relational adaptability	2
Microhistorical research in translator studies: an archival methodology	2
Do networks of relationships shape translation policies, or vice versa? The case of telephone interpreting services for quarantine hotels during the pandemic in Shanghai	2
On the reception of biomedical translation: comparing and contrasting health professionals’ evaluation of translation options and expectations about the safe use of medical devices in Portuguese	2
Power dynamics in the translation of sexually explicit language in China	2
The (re)presentation of interpreters in the Turkish media: a diachronic and cross-setting analysis	2
Classification of multimodal translation errors in the entertainment industry: a proposal	2
Mechanisms to detect and translate audiovisual intertextuality in the dubbing of animated productions into Spanish	2
Representing the poetic styles of Hamlet in equivalent Chinese: Perng Ching-Hsi’s literary translation of Shakespeare	2
Crossing the borders of social class: Social mobility as translational experience	2

Literary translation in periodicals: methodological challenges for a transnational approach	2
News media translation	1
The periphery’s translation of the centre: Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan in Arabic	1
Challenging ethical issues of online ethnography: reflections from researching in an online translator community	1
Governance-oriented state translation program in the Zhenguan era of the Tang dynasty	1
Translating memories of violent pasts: memory studies and translation studies in dialogue	1
Translation and the rediscovery of rhetoric	1
The prism of self-translation:poiesisand poetics of Yu Guangzhong’s bilingual poetry	1
The impressionist tale as a way to negotiate the challenges of ethnography in field missions for international organisations	1
The Languages of COVID-19: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global HealthcareThe Languages of COVID-19: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare, edited by	1
‘Please wear mask!’ Covid-19 in the translation landscape of Thessaloniki: a cross-disciplinary approach to the English translations of Greek public notices	1
Reconstructing solidarity discourse through conference interpreting at the general debates of the United Nations (2008–2021)	1
A global governance of translation? International organisations and the institutionalisation of translation from a relational perspective	1
Has the use of AI-translated live captions in simultaneous interpreting changed the role of the interpreter? A study based on professional interpreters’ perceptions	1
Poems about translation: a neglected form of theory	1
In defense of Ezra Pound’s “graphological” translations	1
Popular science as inter-epistemic translation: a case study	1
Studying interpreters’ stress in crisis communication: evidence from multimodal technology of eye-tracking, heart rate and galvanic skin response	1
50 years later. What have we learnt after Holmes (1972) and where are we now?	1
Translating with Heidegger: worldliness, disclosure and disruption	1
In Conversation: African women poets as translators of the wor(l)d: Conceição Lima, Tariro Ndoro, and Fatoumata Adelle Barry in conversation with Gabriel Bámgbóṣé	1
Translating the unspeakable: activist translation of sexuality into Chinese via social media	1
What is translated; what is not translated: studying the translation process of select Bengali Dalit short stories	0
The relevance of Derrida’s translation: Mercy and ethos	0
Video game localization as homecoming in Total War: Three Kingdoms	0
An exploration of linguistic preferences in the Chinese Malaysian gaming community: Stardew Valley as a case study	0
DisOrientations: German-Turkish cultural contact in translation 1811-1946	0
Investigating academic-practitioner collaboration in Audiovisual Translation Studies	0
Political discourse translation in contemporary Chinese and western contents	0
Translation and the ethics of diversity: editor’s introduction	0
Missionary as gatekeeper in translation: exploring motivations based on the cases of two missionaries in the late Chinese Ming dynasty (1580s-1640s)	0
Local, Regional, and Transnational Identities in Translation: the Italian Case	0
Cultural mediators and distributed agency: the case of the publishing house Alfaguara (1976–1982)	0
Cultural references in films: an audience reception study of subtitling into Arabic	0
The mental health interpreter’s relational agency and therapeutic alliance	0
Contextual parameters in transcreating political aphorisms and imageries	0
Replotting and recharacterisation in dubbing: Renarration of audiovisual fiction	0
Term and concept variation in climate change communication	0
Changing the text through explicitation. How trainee interpreters perceive the role of explicitating shifts	0
Writers and translators working together: the ethical dimension of the translation of post conflict literature	0
Crowdsourced translation as immaterial labour: a netnographic study of Communities of Practice in the TED translation project	0
Interpreters and interpreting: shifting the balance?	0
Intimacy in the strict sense of the term: conflict of intentions in the translation of Malinowski’s diaries	0
Translating across the imperial divide: the role of agents in translating and publishing Chinua Achebe’s works in French	0
Translation under the guidance of translation variation technique: the case of written advertising	0
In conversation: poetry and community in transatlantic translation: Zoë Skoulding speaks to Erín Moure	0
Tracing the “multiple lives” of a national romantic female translator in the early Turkish Republican period: Seniha Sami Moralı	0
‘Becoming knowledgeable’: Ingold’s ‘wayfaring’ and the ‘art of translation’ as a politics of difference	0
Reassembling the ruins: revisiting Latour’s concept of translation in Modernity’s growing aftermath	0
“Could you not translate me?” sociability and performativity in Romantic translation	0

Interpreter-mediated political communication N-Grammed: a corpus-driven discourse analysis of government interpreters’ (ideological) use of formulaic language	0
On translating Pakistani women poets: the ethical problematic of navigating the other	0
Swedish interpreter professions – How legislation and public institutions contribute to creation and disruption of work, remuneration and education	0
Translation beyond translation studies	0
Communicating health-related risks to non-Arabic-speakers in Qatar: policies and practices	0
Metatranslational discourse in poetry translators’ prefaces	0
Recasting the unspeakable: pain, suffering and loss	0
The political dialectics of transediting: the case of Reference News	0
Self-interpreting practices of plurilingual Makassar Muslim preachers	0
Online ethnography of activist networks of interpreters: an “ethnonarrative” methodology for socio-political change	0
The efficient scribe: translating Julio Cortázar’s Todos los fuegos el fuego	0
Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South	0
Exploring new forms of audiovisual translation in the age of digital media: cybersubtitling and cyberdubbing	0
Remembered in translation: Retranslators of William Saroyan into Turkish as guardians of erased memories	0
Hong Lou Meng in the English World: reception of a translated Chinese classic in digital media	0
Grammatical demetaphorization in the title translation of Chinese political cartoons: a multimodal discourse analysis	0
“Can you work for us as an interpreter?” an ethnography of navigating tensions and emotions within an interpreting agency	0
Video news framing: the contribution of audiovisual translation	0
Hazard communication through telephone interpreters during the pandemic in Spain: the case of COVID-19 tracer calls	0
“Telling China’s story well”? Tifa , translation, and discursive power in the Quotidiano del Popolo	0
Towards an ethical framework for evaluating paid translation crowdsourcing and its consequences	0
Translation and (im)mortality	0
Re-reading Jacques Derrida’s ‘Qu’est-ce qu’une traduction “relevante”?’ (What is a ‘relevant’ translation?)	0
Investigating the importance of interpreting services to improve patient care and access to health services for Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous global populations and minority language speakers	0
Being outside inside Oran: Deconstruction, translation and architecture in Hélène Cixous’s ‘Promised cities’	0
Caged narratives in translation and the liberating power of relational networked agency	0
Literature and art as political discourse: adapting The White-Haired Girl in the communist context of China	0
Translation policies for courtroom interactions with ethnic minorities at a Chinese court: integrating ethnographic fieldwork and complexity theory	0
Dubbing murder: censorship and manipulation in the Italian dubbing of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope	0
Ethnographic research in translation and interpreting studies	0
Of professionals, non-professionals and everything in between: redefining the notion of the ‘translator’ in the crowdsourcing era	0
The ecological force and function of literary translation	0
Professionals’ views on the concepts of translation: the challenge of categorisation	0
Who’s afraid of difference? Post-monolingualism against power	0
Exploring the Translatability of Emotions: Cross-Cultural and Transdisciplinary Encounters	0
On categorising online collaborative translation and the consequences for the field of research	0
Translation and time: migration, culture and identity	0
Subjectivity and Ethos in Simultaneous Conference Interpreting – Interpreting Women’s Risks for the International Community at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women	0
Translating CPC orthodoxy with Xi Jinping as its core: the role of the translator in the translation skopos of Zhongguo Gongchandang Jian Shi	0
Reporting at the border:Translation in periodicals at the Texas-Tamaulipas border during the 19th century	0
Intuitive reception of the Chinese translation of Emily Dickinson’s literary heritage	0
Interpreters’ roles in a changing environment	0
A world of sound and rhythm translating Alice Oswald’sWoods etc	0
Translation on and over the web: disentangling conceptual uncertainties and ethical questions – an introduction	0
Translation and history: a textbook Translation and history: a textbook , by Theo Hermans, London and New York, Routledge, 2022, 174 pp., £130.00 (hardback), ISBN: 97811	0
The role of translation in environmental protection: an inclusive approach	0
Mother Camp has Arrived: an analysis of the Spanish translation of Esther Newton’s ethnographic text on drag queens in America	0
Carlos Aldao’s translations: Argentine cultural nationalism and the politics of history	0
Translation and interpreting research in Saudi Arabia: a bibliometric analysis (1990–2019)	0
Thinking multimodal translation through relational ontology	0
Translating hazards: multilingual concerns in risk and emergency communication	0
The rules of the game: on the interplay between normative ideas and technology in an online amateur translation community	0
Translating the Canarian Malinche: creation and dissemination of discursive images through hidden translation practices	0
In their own words: how has Covid-19 affected Jordanian translators’ wellbeing?	0
Literary translation on digital platforms. Intermedial and sonic perspectives	0
In Conversation. Karen Van Dyck speaks with Souleymane Bachir Diagne: mutuality and unexpected collaboration in translation	0
Experiencing translationality: material and metaphorical journeys	0
Governance-oriented State Translation Program in the Yuan Dynasty	0
Translation, trouvailles	0
Translation and its fictions: pseudotranslation and partial cultural translation in focus	0