A Bibliometric Analysis of the Five-Decade Publications on Metaphor.

This study is focused on analyzing the publication trends on metaphor in the last five decades with the assistance of bibliometric analysis. The data used were 620 studies classified into several types of publication: 440 articles, 74 reviews, 39 book chapters, 33 books, 24 conference papers, two short surveys, three notes, two editorials, two conference reviews, and one press article. The data analysis used VOSviewer 1.6.5 and Tableau to form the data visualization. The results of this study show that the highest number of publications in 2018 was 66, while the keywords co-occurrence aspect in the metaphor study was dominated by human, metaphor, young adult, humans, figurative language and so on. Furthermore, the highest source trend analysis was ‘Neuropsychologia’ with 397 citations and Mashal’s author-based citation analysis with 292 citations. In contrast, the countries-based citation analysis was dominated by two countries: the United States at 2358 and United Kingdom at 1113. Then, the highest organizational trend was University College London, United Kingdom, with four documents and 77 citations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]