Article Opening the methodological black box of research synthesis in language education: where are we now and heading? was published on January 20, 2023 journal Applied Linguistics Review (volume 0, issue 0).

This paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. The abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to November 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the Compleat Lexical Tutor. The output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...