A Bibliometric Analysis of Translation Studies of Children’s Literature and Its Implications

This article presents a bibliometric analysis of translation studies of children’s literature. The analysis focuses on annual publication trends, productive contributors at the country/region, institution, author, and journal levels, influential publications, and popular topics, language pairs, and research types and methods. For this purpose, a total of 237 articles were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection and imported into Microsoft Excel 2021 to calculate the aforementioned bibliometric indicators. In addition, VOSviewer was used to create a visual keyword co-occurrence map. The findings show that children’s literature translation has attracted more academic attention in recent years. Besides, institutions from countries/regions, such as Spain, China, England, South Africa, and Poland, are powerhouses of translation studies of children’s literature. Meanwhile, Haidee Kotze and Yolisa Madolo are among the most productive authors, and the articles by Christiane Nord and Emer O’Sullivan are among the most influential articles. Additionally, English-Chinese is the most popular language pair and English is the most popular language, children’s classics and translation strategies are among the most popular topics, empirical research far outnumbers theoretical research, and the observation method prevails over other research methods. Based on these findings, this article suggests several methods that might advance translation studies of children’s literature, such as proposing special issues on children’s literature translation, strengthening collaboration among scholars, convening regular seminars, and encouraging theoretical, quantitative, and interdisciplinary research.