Meara, Paul2026-02-022026-02-022025"LingBaW. Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2025, Vol. 11, pp. 119-140.2450-5188https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/9200This paper is the latest in a series of studies published in LingBaW that contribute towards a historical review of research into L2 vocabulary acquisition. This instalment uses an author co-citation analysis (Small 1973) to examine the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition published in 1993. Two analyses are presented. The first analysis provides a context for the 1993 data. It looks at work that was being cited in a five-year window covering 1989–93. The second analysis is a more detailed account of the 1993 research on its own terms. These analyses suggest that a surge in psycholinguistic research identified in 1992 may be a transient feature of the field. 1993 exhibits a return the patterns noted in our earlier studies, where the most significant influences come from an applied linguistics perspective.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/L2 vocabulary acquisitionvocabulary researchbibliometricauthor co-citationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.31743/lingbaw.19184