Abdurrashid Khazaei Feuzabad - Department of English, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
Nematullah Shomoossi - Department of English, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar Iran

The scientific investigation of topics and patterns in translation studies have been come to the fore by drawing on the potentials of scientometrics and bibliographics in interdisciplinary studies. Quantitative tracing of historical patterns in journals and books are also in perspective. Similarly, co-occurrence patterns for mapping those trends are suggested. Indeed, these are meant to stress the policy makers’ mission for portraying future directions as well. Auxiliary software like VOSviewer are used for visualizing bibliometric networks of researchers, publications, journals and citations in current databases such as Scopus and Web of Science, together with simpler tools such as Excel files. These render patterns of co-authorship, keywords co-occurrence, co-citation, top journals, countries and universities to give us a summary of the filed productivity. The present letter is an attempt to provide readers with a brief introduction to (۱) the value of scientometric studies in rendering a holistic picture of translation studies.

translation studies, Scientometrics, Bibliographics, Topics, Trends