The End of Second Language Writing?

This study adopts a bibliometric approach to investigate a) impacts of scholars and publications and b) major research trends in L2 writing research between 2000 and 2020. Data (2723 files) were collected to represent L2 writing publications in the past two decades, with four subgroups representing publications in four specific periods (2000–2005, 2006–2010, 2011–2015, 2016–2020). The findings show influential scholars and highly cited...