Academic Translation Services

Academic translation is translating research output - papers, theses, abstracts and grant applications - for journals and faculties abroad. The work goes to translators who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around translation across documents, websites, media and software from one supplier.

Mostly researchers, doctoral candidates and university departments publishing or submitting outside their own language. What they have in common is material that has to be exact and not roughly right, which is why every file is checked against the source before delivery. Most of the work here ends up in front of someone with the authority to reject it.

The date is fixed in the quote, and rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available where you need it. Scope is agreed before the clock starts, so a document job, a website and a media file on the same order each get their own realistic date. Academic translation is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool.

The standard is 99+%, reached by doing the job twice: one person produces the file, and a second checks it before release. What gets checked on academic translation is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first.

It is handled by restricting access, not by promising discretion. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. Academic translation often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Everyone on the job is under NDA, transfer is encrypted, and your own confidentiality agreement is signed before work starts if you have one.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend. The format for academic translation is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Your house template can be applied from the first order, which is what keeps a set of documents looking like one set.

Citations, reference lists and figure captions follow the style the target journal requires, not the source one. That is settled before work begins and not discovered afterwards, so the first delivery is the one you can use. The translator works into their own first language, which is what keeps long text readable instead of merely correct.

Discipline terminology is set with the author before drafting, since a field often has one accepted term. That is part of what academic translation means here, not an extra, and anything genuinely outside the brief is quoted before it starts. A certified version and a plain working copy can be issued from the same job.

Yes. Academic translation is available in 100+ languages, with every file going to a native speaker of the target language and a reviewer who also reads it. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid. Where a language is rare, availability is checked before the quote.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page. What moves the figure is the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified, so the quote is built from your actual files and not from a rate card. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. Academic translation is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. You get an exact total in writing before anything starts.