TY - JOUR
T1 - Open access in translation studies. A bibliometric overview of its distribution and development
AU - Franco Aixelá, Javier
AU - Olalla-Soler, Christian
AU - Rovira- Esteva, Sara
N1 - Aquest treball ha comptat amb una ajuda del Departament de Traducció, d'Interpretació i d'Estudis de l'Àsia Oriental de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
PY - 2021/2/25
Y1 - 2021/2/25
N2 - This article provides an analysis of open access (OA) publishing in translation studies for the 1961-2015 period. To this end, we have taken advantage of the translation-studies (TS) bibliographical database BITRA, which comprised over 75,000 entries as of December 2018, over 21,000 of which had been labelled as OA. The main bibliometric factors we examined from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives were the global status of OA, publication format, language, topic, kind of publisher and types of websites hosting OA publications, while also providing an estimation of how these factors predict OA. The results indicate that we are increasingly witnessing a balance between open and toll access due to the dramatic growth of OA in TS. We have also found that OA is still on the increase in TS, although with some notable variations within each of the categories under analysis.
AB - This article provides an analysis of open access (OA) publishing in translation studies for the 1961-2015 period. To this end, we have taken advantage of the translation-studies (TS) bibliographical database BITRA, which comprised over 75,000 entries as of December 2018, over 21,000 of which had been labelled as OA. The main bibliometric factors we examined from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives were the global status of OA, publication format, language, topic, kind of publisher and types of websites hosting OA publications, while also providing an estimation of how these factors predict OA. The results indicate that we are increasingly witnessing a balance between open and toll access due to the dramatic growth of OA in TS. We have also found that OA is still on the increase in TS, although with some notable variations within each of the categories under analysis.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Open access
KW - Publishing practices
KW - Translation studies
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U2 - 10.12807/ti.113201.2021.a01
DO - 10.12807/ti.113201.2021.a01
M3 - Article
SN - 1836-9324
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 23
JO - The International Journal of Translation & Interpreting Research
JF - The International Journal of Translation & Interpreting Research
IS - 1
ER -