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Are Social Sciences, Sociology, Ethics, etc. good areas to work in?
Thread poster: Maria Julia Comparin
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Hi Oct 6, 2023

I worked with them for a while, but I like to settle for areas closer to my interests and it's way easier to work.
 
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Social sciences - EN > other language: unlikely for articles, maybe for textbooks (IMHO) Oct 10, 2023

My experience is that a lot of academics want to publish their articles in English, and so they need to have them translated OR proofread. I have done a lot of social sciences / anthropology / political sciences / development aid studies that way in FR-EN and GER-EN. However, are there specialist journals which will only publish in Portuguese, and academics who are not natives who will want their articles translated into Portuguese for them? I suspect much fewer, obviously based on experience r... See more
My experience is that a lot of academics want to publish their articles in English, and so they need to have them translated OR proofread. I have done a lot of social sciences / anthropology / political sciences / development aid studies that way in FR-EN and GER-EN. However, are there specialist journals which will only publish in Portuguese, and academics who are not natives who will want their articles translated into Portuguese for them? I suspect much fewer, obviously based on experience rather than having any figures at hand.

With respect to textbooks, there may well be a market you can catch on to by writing to publishing houses or academics. I would let others comment on that. I only did one book:
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