diff --git a/src/app/home-page/home-page.component.ts b/src/app/home-page/home-page.component.ts
index 36485e7e56c..1bee5754e17 100644
--- a/src/app/home-page/home-page.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/home-page/home-page.component.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ import { SearchObjects } from '../shared/search/models/search-objects.model';
 import { environment } from '../../environments/environment';
 import { UsageReportDataService } from '../core/statistics/usage-report-data.service';
 import { isUndefined } from '../shared/empty.util';
+
+const MAX_TRUNCATE_LENGTH = 20;
+
 @Component({
   selector: 'ds-home-page',
   styleUrls: ['./home-page.component.scss'],
@@ -232,7 +235,7 @@ export class HomePageComponent implements OnInit {
           // remove `/objects` from the updatedSearchUrl
           updatedSearchUrl = updatedSearchUrl.replace('/objects', '');
           const fastSearchLink: FastSearchLink = Object.assign(new FastSearchLink(), {
-            name: facetValue.value,
+            name: this.truncateText(facetValue.value),
             occurrences: facetValue.count,
             url: updatedSearchUrl
           });
@@ -264,6 +267,25 @@ export class HomePageComponent implements OnInit {
   redirectToBrowseByField(field) {
     this.router.navigateByUrl('/browse/' + field);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * If the text is longer than MAX_TRUNCATE_LENGTH characters, replace the characters after
+   * the MAX_TRUNCATE_LENGTHth index with '...' This method is used to truncate
+   * the text in the `authors/subjects/languages` browsing section. We do not want
+   * to display the full text of the author/subject/language, but only
+   * the first MAX_TRUNCATE_LENGTH characters because it overflows to the next line.
+   *
+   * @param text
+   * @private
+   */
+  private truncateText(text: string): string {
+    if (text.length > MAX_TRUNCATE_LENGTH) {
+      // Replace characters after the MAX_TRUNCATE_LENGTHth index with '...'
+      return text.substring(0, MAX_TRUNCATE_LENGTH) + '...';
+    } else {
+      return text; // Return the original string if it's not longer than MAX_TRUNCATE_LENGTH characters
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 /**