Hispanoamérica desde fuera: la investigación en traducción de tema hispanoamericano publicada en revistas no hispanoamericanas

• Published in: Meta (Montréal) Vol. 64; no. 2; p. 467
• Main Author: Vargas Gómez, Francisco Javier
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Montreal Presses de l'Universite de Montreal 01-08-2019
• Subjects: Authorship; Bibliometrics; Collaboration; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic people; Literary translation; Spanish language; United States > US
• ISSN: 0026-0452; 1492-1421
• DOI: 10.7202/1068203ar

Drawing upon relevant information from BITRA (an open access multilingual database with more than 70 000 bibliographic references in the field), a bibliometric study was conducted to depict the evolution and the state of the art of translation studies on Hispanic America published in journals outside the region. Publication count methods (Grbić y Pöllabauer 2008c; Li 2015; Martínez-Gómez 2015) were applied over a corpus of 611 articles published in 193 non-Hispanic American journals to examine different productivity indicators. The results reveal an increase of the interest over Hispanic America, of productivity rates and of co-authorship frequency mainly from the 1990s on. Results also point to the predominance of literary themes, case studies and historical issues, the favoring of English, Spanish and specialized journals when it comes to publishing, and the positioning of the United States and Spain as the main publication hubs.