Thirty Years of "TEFLIN Journal": A Bibliometric Portrait through the Lens of Microsoft Academic

To examine bodies of literature from the levels of topics, regions, nations, and journals, a lot of bibliometric studies have been conducted in many fields. However, such studies are a rare undertaking in the field of English language teaching, especially at a journal level. To celebrate the "T...

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Published in:TEFLIN journal 2021-01, Vol.32 (1), p.134-166
Main Authors: Syahid, Abdul, Mukminatien, Nur
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authors
Authorship
Bibliographic data bases
bibliographic databases
Bibliographic literature
Bibliometrics
Citation indexes
Computer Software
Education
Educational Research
English (Second Language)
English language
Foreign language learning
Hirsch index
Indexing
Indexing services
Keywords
Language Acquisition
Linguistics
Open access publishing
Periodicals
Productivity
Regions
Science
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Second Languages
Social sciences
Software
state of the art reviews
Teaching
Teaching Methods
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Summary:To examine bodies of literature from the levels of topics, regions, nations, and journals, a lot of bibliometric studies have been conducted in many fields. However, such studies are a rare undertaking in the field of English language teaching, especially at a journal level. To celebrate the "TEFLIN Journal"'s 30th anniversary, this study exhibits a bibliometric portrait of its publication, indexation, and citation from 1990 to 2019. Two pieces of free software, Publish or Perish and VOSviewer were adopted to conduct the descriptive and network analyses of bibliographic data from Microsoft Academic. In terms of 19 out of 27 metrics in Publish or Perish software, the journal's publication and citation metrics have risen during its lifetime. The bibliographic network identifies the most productive authors, institutions, and countries along with the co-authorship pattern, type of top-cited articles, and top-used keywords. The article relatedness is also sighted in terms of the citation frequency and number of shared references. Even though the analyses were complicated by some missing articles and improper indexation, this study could still take a full-length bibliometric portrait of the journal during its 30-year journey between the commitment to competence and the quest for higher impact.
ISSN:0215-773X
2356-2641
DOI:10.15639/teflinjournal.v32i1/134-166