Word on the Street

Research trends across linguistics, applied linguistics, and language education, tracked weekly.

This year's fastest-rising topic in language research

Every year, some research topics draw more papers and others fewer. This page tracks that. The topic gaining fastest:

The fastest riser this year

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Share of the field's output across the fully indexed years. Hover to read any year.

The longer view: the state of the field

Movers this year

Rising

    Fading

      Underserved niches

      Constructs whose 2022 to 2024 papers were cited well above the field's rate, while the literature on them is still thin. That window ends two years back, so citations have had time to land.

        Most cited in the last two years

        By OpenAlex citation count.

        New this week

        About these numbers

        Browse all constructs · Read the full methodology and limits.