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Babel
Vol. 64:4 (2018) ► pp.548–578

Translation quality research

A data-driven collection of peer-reviewed journal articles during 2000–2017

 | University of Isfahan
Recently, there is a growing interest in the development of translation quality research programmes at different stages worldwide. Scholars and researchers have paid much attention to the quality of translation; however, there is a dearth of meta-analyses of studies and research in the field of translation quality research. In fact there has been no systematic review since 2000. The purpose of the current research paper is to design translation quality research through the construction of a database of 14 peer-reviewed journal publications during the period 2000 to 2017. A combination of thematic and methodological analyses, scientometric methods, and corpus tool were applied to analyse the extracted database. Also, top-down and bottom-up procedures were conducted to minimise the subjectivity of thematic analysis. The present research scrutinised the extracted database on the basis of four main criteria, namely theoretical importance, pertinence to empirical and non-empirical research, the size of readership, and geographical coverage including institutions and countries. Finally, this database aims at serving as a resource for researchers and scholars to become familiar with the most cutting edge information on developments in translation quality research, challenges within this field, and the possible trajectories for future research.
Keywords: translation quality research, meta-analyses, theoretical importance, pertinence to empirical and non-empirical research, readership size, geographical coverage
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Framework of the research
    • 2.1Construction of the database
    • 2.2Data analysis
  • 3.Results
    • 3.1Fundamental statistics
    • 3.2Themes in the extracted database
    • 3.3Methods of research in the extracted database
    • 3.4Geographical coverage and authorship distribution
  • 4.Discussion of the results
  • 5.Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 27 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00051.akb
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