Bibliometric Analysis of the L2 Writing Journal

Abstract

While researchers have begun to clarify the status of L2 writing studies, past bibliometric assessments of L2 writing research may still designate it as a field of applied linguistics. They sought the topic of L2 writing in key databases and journals, retrieved relevant publications, and ran a bibliometric analysis. They might increase the number of papers for review, but they undermine the value and influence of specialist publications, notably the flagship journal of L2 writing. The goal of this study was to undertake a bibliometric analysis of 656 publications published in the Journal of Second Language Writing from 2002 to June 2021, retrieved from WoS and based on HistCite Pro. The HistCite graph marker indicated 30 articles as nodes and 59 combinations of nodes as links. Four out of the five clusters on the citation map originated in 2003, demonstrating that major research issues emerged in the year and took root in subsequent studies.

Tracing the Impact of Truscott's Controversial 1996 Paper on Grammar Correction: A Bibliometric Analysis

“…However, the positions of the top five keywords remained unchanged, both in publication records and TGCS. The Global Citation Scores, or TGCS, represented the cumulative number of citations recorded in the Web of Science database (Lei, 2022). Due to their prominence in publishing records, TGCS, and TLCS, "feedback," "writing," "corrective," and "written" were essential keywords.…”

“…Depending on the intended objective, either approach was feasible. It was worth mentioning that Lei (2022) conducted a bibliometric analysis of 656 articles from the L2 Writing Journal from 2002 to 2021, utilizing the Web of Science and HistCite Pro to analyze the articles. As evidenced by the HistCite graph marker, Chandler's 2003 paper on error correction and feedback spawned a massive cluster of highly cited works.…”