Bibliometrix: Science Mapping Analysis with R Biblioshiny Based on Web of Science in Applied Linguistics

Bibliometric analysis has established itself as one of the leading approaches to visualizing a comprehensive picture of literature review across different disciplines over the past decade. As detailed in the paper, the researcher aimed to describe an open-source application that uses the R programming language to integrate a web-based interface into Biblioshiny, which performs a comprehensive analysis of the science mapping data. Bibliometrix supports a suggested methodology for conducting bibliometric analyses that can be used to conduct the analyses. This paper uses bibliometric analysis tools to visualize the relationship between published articles in the English language and technology-related publications (CALL, MALL, RALL) from 2013 to 2022. Additionally, the study followed the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. In accordance with PRISMA, 881 documents were analyzed using Bibliometrix from the WoS database. Ideally, to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of research, two major levels of bibliometric analysis were selected, the intellectual structure and the conceptual structure, to illustrate a general and systematic overview. As a consequence, there is the possibility of gaining insight into the progress of research on specific topics, such as the most influential sources, authors, affiliations, countries, documents, and the scientific network among different constituencies as well as the evolution of research trends in the field. Hopefully, the insights provided in this paper will be useful to researchers from different disciplines who are interested in publishing authentic bibliometric studies.