Bibliometric studies

This contribution sets off by situating and defining the use of bibliometric methods in general, before applying them to Translation & Interpreting Studies. Although bibliometric methods originated in information science, nowadays they have found a wide application in a variety of research fields in the humanities as well. Different types of bibliometric (sometimes scientometric) methods are described and largely illustrated by existing publications in T&I Studies. They vary from relatively ‘simple counting’ approaches to studies based on the use of several types of statistical software. In general the tendency to adopt more bibliometric approaches cannot be separated from the measuring of academic output, research assessment, ‘objectivization’ of scientific activity and the knowledge-structuring in a discipline in the process of institutionalization.status: publishe