{"title":"25-year neuroimaging research on spoken language processing: a bibliometric analysis.","authors":"Yuxuan Zheng, Boning Zhang","doi":"10.3389/fnhum.2024.1461505","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Spoken language processing is of huge interest to cognitive and neural scientists, as it is the dominant channel for everyday verbal communication. The aim of this study is to depict the dynamics of publications in the field of neuroimaging research on spoken language processing between 2000 and 2024.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A bibliometric analysis was conducted to probe this particular subject matter based on data retrieved from Web of Science. A total of 8,085 articles were found, which were analyzed together with their authors, journals of publication, citations and countries of origin.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results showed a steady increase of publication volume and a relatively high academic visibility of this research field indexed by total citations in the first 25 years of the 21st century. Maps of frequent keywords, institutional collaboration network show that cooperations mainly happen between institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. Future trends based on burst detection predict that classification, Alzheimer's disease and oscillations are potential hot topics.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Possible reasons for the result include the aging of the population in developed countries, and the rapid growth of artificial intelligence in the past decade. Finally, specific research avenues were proposed which might benefit future studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":12536,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Human Neuroscience","volume":"18 ","pages":"1461505"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11635769/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Frontiers in Human Neuroscience","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1461505","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"NEUROSCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Introduction: Spoken language processing is of huge interest to cognitive and neural scientists, as it is the dominant channel for everyday verbal communication. The aim of this study is to depict the dynamics of publications in the field of neuroimaging research on spoken language processing between 2000 and 2024.
Methods: A bibliometric analysis was conducted to probe this particular subject matter based on data retrieved from Web of Science. A total of 8,085 articles were found, which were analyzed together with their authors, journals of publication, citations and countries of origin.
Results: Results showed a steady increase of publication volume and a relatively high academic visibility of this research field indexed by total citations in the first 25 years of the 21st century. Maps of frequent keywords, institutional collaboration network show that cooperations mainly happen between institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. Future trends based on burst detection predict that classification, Alzheimer's disease and oscillations are potential hot topics.
Discussion: Possible reasons for the result include the aging of the population in developed countries, and the rapid growth of artificial intelligence in the past decade. Finally, specific research avenues were proposed which might benefit future studies.
期刊介绍:
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is a first-tier electronic journal devoted to understanding the brain mechanisms supporting cognitive and social behavior in humans, and how these mechanisms might be altered in disease states. The last 25 years have seen an explosive growth in both the methods and the theoretical constructs available to study the human brain. Advances in electrophysiological, neuroimaging, neuropsychological, psychophysical, neuropharmacological and computational approaches have provided key insights into the mechanisms of a broad range of human behaviors in both health and disease. Work in human neuroscience ranges from the cognitive domain, including areas such as memory, attention, language and perception to the social domain, with this last subject addressing topics, such as interpersonal interactions, social discourse and emotional regulation. How these processes unfold during development, mature in adulthood and often decline in aging, and how they are altered in a host of developmental, neurological and psychiatric disorders, has become increasingly amenable to human neuroscience research approaches. Work in human neuroscience has influenced many areas of inquiry ranging from social and cognitive psychology to economics, law and public policy. Accordingly, our journal will provide a forum for human research spanning all areas of human cognitive, social, developmental and translational neuroscience using any research approach.