Translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy

Local-language journals that include topics of regional interest and are published by institutions in the non-Anglophone world (peripheral journals, also called Global South Development Studies) underrepresented major indexes struggling due to a lack contributors, reviewers financial support. Some have resorted translation-mediated bilingual publishing as development strategy maintain their identity increase visibility impact. To date, this has received scant attention literature. The current research aims explore why peripheral resort ways which it is put into practice. overviews, instructions authors bilingually presented articles 68 social science humanities were reviewed through content analysis. results suggest implement out pragmatic ideological concerns. It seems use translation still an improvized mechanism instead standard model. Although many follow similar pattern some respects, there management process no agreed norms on cost coverage, presentation formats. This points necessity further effort being expended optimize future.