A Visualization Research of Genre Analysis

Abstract

Taking the literature with keyword word is genre analysis in the database of the core collection of Web of Science from 1995 to 2023 as the research object, this article draws institutional analysis figure, author's analysis figure, co-citation literature analysis figure, discipline analysis figure, keyword network figure, and country analysis figure by using visually scientific tools such as Citespace. Those figures systematically analyze the internal relationship and development of the research content of genre analysis. This paper employs bibliometrics and scientific knowledge mapping. By analyzing those figures the writer concludes that: Institutional cooperation in the field of radical analysis is needed to be strengthened. The stable core author group has not yet been established in this domain. Multi-disciplinary comprehensive research results have greatly promoted the progress and development of genre analysis. Genre analysis, Genre, academic writing, interdiscursivity, discourse analysis are hot topics currently. In this study, the basic knowledge of genre analysis is understood through co-citation literature analysis. The United States and China are the countries with the highest publications in genre analysis domain.