Yuxuan Zheng ^*

• Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China

Spoken language processing is of huge interest to cognitive and neural scientists, as it is the dominant channel for everyday verbal communication. For the first time a bibliometric analysis was conducted to probe this particular subject matter based on data retrieved from Web of Science between 2000 and 2024. A total of 8085 articles were found, which were analyzed together with their authors, journals of publication, citations and countries of origin. 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 21 st 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. 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.