What is academic translation?
Academic translation is the translation of scholarly material, such as research papers, theses, conference presentations and grant applications, from one language into another with technical terminology, academic tone and the author’s intent preserved. Frontier Publishers translates from more than 25 languages into English using bilingual translators with subject expertise, followed by a native English editor’s review, so the translated manuscript is ready for submission to an international journal.
Service overview
Publishing in English opens your research to a global readership, but general translators working from a glossary rarely get discipline-specific terminology right. Our translators are bilingual researchers with subject-matter experience in your domain.
Every project follows a four-step translation and review process. A bilingual translator from your field translates the manuscript, and a native English editor then refines the language to international journal standards and checks that the meaning of the original has been kept.
What is included
- Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish and 20+ more languages
- Translation by a bilingual subject specialist
- Technical terminology matched to your field
- Native English editing after translation
- Terminology consistent with the target journal
- Theses, articles, abstracts and grant proposals
- Figures, tables and captions translated
- Editing certificate on request
Who this service is for
Researchers writing in their first language
Authors who can express complex ideas best in their native language and need a faithful English version.
Authors targeting international journals
Researchers who have published locally and want to reach an international, English-reading audience.
Institutions and research groups
Departments translating theses, reports, grant proposals and conference papers.
Our process
How our academic translation works
Why choose us
Why researchers choose Frontier Publishers
Researchers, not generalists
Translators hold research degrees in your field and know how its literature is written in English.
25+ languages
Context-sensitive translation into English from more than 25 languages.
Editing included
Native English editing is part of the service, not charged separately.
Confidential handling
Translators work under NDA and your unpublished research is handled securely.
Questions
Academic translation questions
We translate into English from more than 25 languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Turkish, Russian and Bahasa.
A bilingual translator with subject-matter experience in your domain translates the manuscript, and a native English editor then refines it to international journal standards.
Yes. Because native English editing is included, the translated manuscript is ready to submit. We can also format it to your target journal as part of a publication support pack.
Translators work in their own discipline and follow the terminology used in your target journal and its recent literature. Ambiguous terms are raised with you rather than guessed.
Free assessment
Send your manuscript and target journal. An expert reviews it and replies with a recommended approach and a fixed quote, with no obligation.
Related services
Often combined with academic translation
Your manuscript reformatted to the target journal’s author guidelines, from citation style and headings to tables, figures and layout, in Word or LaTeX.
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