Bibliometric and bibliographical research in Translation Studies

摘要

Sink or swim, publish or perish, there seems to be no way to live and let live, as Cole Porter sang. We live directly in the middle of a system, created by economists, in which accountability is the name of the game. All our working hours have to be tagged under given labels, which are evaluated through random benchmarking by seemingly aseptic, objective parameters. Our work outcome must also be accountable both quantitatively and qualitatively to fit to pre-established thresholds of productivity, originality, innovation, etc.