Abstract
A brief literature review indicated that more bibliometric studies should be conducted regarding mixed-methods research (MMR). To fill this gap, the study reported in this chapter followed a bibliometric analysis approach and investigated MMR citation and co-citation in AL. We retrieved 256 published articles from 18 prominent AL journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS). We conducted two levels of analysis. The first level of analysis was mapping the publication trends of MMR studies and citation analysis of the impact. The second level analysis was co-citation analysis, including document co-citation analysis (DCA) and author co-citation analysis (ACA). The results of the analyses are presented in five areas. The first is the publication trend and citation regarding MMR in AL. The second is the bibliometric trend in published MMR studies in L2 journals. The third is the profile of the institutions and countries in MMR-published articles. The fourth part reports the most cited MMR articles. Finally, the fifth part presents the network map and density view of the most cited sources. We believe that this study can complement the current bibliometric studies in AL by filling the identified gap, that is scientometric analysis of MMR in AL.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A Scientometrics Research Perspective in Applied Linguistics |
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
| Pages | 135-161 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031517266 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783031517259 |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Feb 2024 |