Table 5 Top 20 keywords for every three years (the number set in parentheses indicates the number of articles published in the corresponding years that used the keyword).
From: Bibliometric analysis of Asian ‘language and linguistics’ research: A case of 13 countries
Rank | 2000–2003 | 2004–2006 | 2007–2009 | 2010–2012 | 2013–2015 | 2016–2018 | 2019–2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hebrew (32) | Hebrew (23) | Japanese (29) | English (50) | English (61) | Chinese (79) | EFL (204) |
2 | Chinese (19) | Japanese (19) | Chinese (28) | Japanese (44) | Japanese (61) | EFL (79) | motivation (162) |
3 | Japanese (18) | Chinese (17) | English (22) | Chinese (39) | EFL (59) | academic writing (76) | social media (134) |
4 | Cantonese (18) | Cantonese (16) | discourse (21) | Hong Kong (37) | identity (59) | Japanese (70) | English (129) |
5 | Chinese linguistics (12) | English (14) | Hebrew (21) | Hebrew (36) | Chinese (57) | English (67) | academic writing (128) |
6 | English (12) | reading (12) | language (20) | motivation (33) | motivation (51) | gender (66) | EFL learners (127) |
7 | discourse analysis (10) | second language acquisition (11) | Cantonese (17) | reading comprehension (33) | reading comprehension (47) | motivation (66) | Chinese (126) |
8 | Hong Kong (10) | phonology (9) | Mandarin (15) | EFL (32) | language (45) | identity (60) | deep learning (126) |
9 | phonology (8) | metaphor (9) | Hong Kong (15) | discourse analysis (30) | gender (45) | reading comprehension (59) | sentiment analysis (120) |
10 | discourse (8) | China (8) | syntax (15) | Cantonese (28) | Hebrew (43) | EFL learners (56) | higher education (118) |
11 | language acquisition (8) | morphology (8) | China (14) | identity (28) | conversation analysis (41) | conversation analysis (50) | identity (118) |
12 | syntax (8) | information retrieval (8) | language acquisition (14) | discourse (28) | vocabulary (39) | sentiment analysis (49) | gender (118) |
13 | second language (8) | Korean (8) | culture (14) | gender (28) | corpus linguistics (37) | Hong Kong (49) | reading comprehension (116) |
14 | pragmatics (8) | dyslexia (8) | Turkish (14) | culture (27) | culture (36) | corpus (48) | critical discourse analysis (102) |
15 | morphology (8) | bilingualism (7) | reading comprehension (13) | second language acquisition (27) | academic writing (36) | writing (48) | writing (101) |
16 | metaphor (7) | Mandarin Chinese (7) | second language (13) | metaphor (27) | critical discourse analysis (35) | teacher education (47) | bilingualism (100) |
17 | language (7) | culture (7) | grammaticalization (12) | bilingualism (26) | Hong Kong (35) | bilingualism (46) | Covid-19 (93) |
18 | culture (7) | language (7) | reading (12) | critical discourse analysis (26) | bilingualism (35) | discourse analysis (45) | machine learning (90) |
19 | academic writing (7) | ideology (7) | information retrieval (12) | language (26) | translation (34) | reading (45) | language learning (85) |
20 | second language acquisition (7) | second language (7) | gender (12) | translation (25) | second language acquisition (34) | China (44) | corpus (84) |
21 | lexical decision (7) | syntax (7) | EFL (12) | grammaticalization (25) | translation (44) | China (84) | |
22 | focus (7) | Singapore (7) | Singapore (12) | conversation analysis (25) | Hebrew (44) | ||
23 | identity (7) | Taiwan (12) |
