Evolution of Forensic Linguistics Publication: From a Europe and North America Continent (1980 – 2021)

Forensic linguistics as a field is very much still growing and evolving. This bibliometric analysis aims to identify the most author's organizations published Forensic Linguistics from 1980 to 2022, the most frequently explored topics in Forensic Linguistics research from 1980 to 2022, the most highly publications cited in Forensic Linguistics research from 1980 to 2022, the most productive countries in Forensic Linguistics research publication since 1980 up to 2022.The data obtained in this bibliometric analysis are from the Scopus database. By using Vosviewer 1.6.18 software, the 341 articles were extracted from www.scopus.com which are explored on February, 16 2022. The keywords used are “Forensic Linguistics” OR “Legal Linguistics”. Research articles found based on the keywords are from 1980 to 2022. The author's organizations which publish the most Forensic Linguistics research throughout the year are University of Birmingham United Kingdom, Georgetown University United States, and Aston University United Kingdom. The most frequently explored topics in Forensic Linguistics research throughout the year are legal linguistics and corpus linguistics. The countries which most productive in Forensic Linguistics research publication throughout the year based on the network visualization of co-authorship countries are the United Kingdom and the United States which can be seen in the big red nodes. The most productive countries to cite the forensic linguistics research articles, books, and proceedings are United Kingdom, Poland, and Russian federation as shown in the Network visualization of countries citation.