Bibliometric assessment of world scholars’ international publications related to conceptual metaphor

Abstract

Research on metaphor has gained increasing attention of world’s scholars since the publication of Lakoff and Johnson’s collaborated book Metaphors We Live By in 1980. The present study comprises a pioneering review of publications on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). It aimed to use the CiteSpace software to provide a clear overview of international research in relation to CMT. In total, 4,458 bibliometric recordings ranging from 1980 to 2022 were collected from the Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection. The descriptive analysis presents the trend of annual publications, the top 10 most prolific journals and the top 10 most productive authors. A document co-citation analysis was conducted via CiteSpace to navigate the key documents in this field. A visualization of keywords and its cluster analysis were conducted to show the research fields and dominant topics. The top 5 keywords with high frequency were language, comprehension, conceptual metaphor, discourse, and figurative language. The most prominent 5 clusters are labeled as right hemisphere, self, time, teacher education, and corpus linguistics. The present review through CiteSpace flags the need for more investigations of CMT from more aspects or interdisciplinary studies, such as metaphor translation, metaphor in literature, metaphor and corpus linguistics, etc.

A mapping-knowledge-domain analysis of ERP research on language processing

“…Within Citespace, the Betweenness Centrality stands as a metric to gauge this association strength. A higher centrality value assigned to a keyword signifies its relative significance within the network ( Chen, 2004 ; Han et al, 2022 ; Peng and Hu, 2022 ). Therefore, this investigation undertakes a co-occurrence analysis to explore the centrality and frequency patterns of keywords in the domain of ERP research on language processing, aiming to identify prevalent focal points.…”

Research on the Frontier and Prospect of Service Robots in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Based on International Core Journals: A Review

“…While CiteSpace, a bibliometric analysis program created by Chen [25], which is commonly used by researchers to explore the knowledge base, hotspots, and fronts of a research topic [26], was used with the keyword cluster analysis function to lay the groundwork for subsequent content analysis. This was because the keywords of the literature are highly concentrated, which is considered to reflect the main idea of the research [26], and keyword cluster analysis is a bibliometric approach to group keywords into a set on the basis of similarity and dissimilarity, having advantages in recognizing the same research interests or themes [27]. This paper attempts to explore the research fronts of service robotics research in the tourism and hospitality industry via keyword cluster analysis.…”

Research on metaphor processing during the past five decades: a bibliometric analysis

“…As noted by Han et al (2022), metaphor processing has been the most studied research area in metaphor research. Since the 1970s, how metaphors are processed in the brain has been extensively investigated by scholars in linguistics, neurolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.…”

“…This is particularly the case with research on metaphor processing. According to a study conducted by Han et al (2022), research on metaphor processing has been the most active area of research on metaphor.…”

“…Therefore, a systematic review conducted by bibliometric tools can shed new light on our understanding of metaphor processing research. In the literature of the field, we found just two works on bibliometrics of conceptual metaphor research (Han et al, 2022;Zhao et al, 2023). These two works have presented bibliometric assessments of published works on conceptual metaphor theory.…”