The author conducts a scientometric analysis of international researches on genre-based instruc-tion (GBI) with the tool of CiteSpace V. The research data (179 research papers) were retrieved from the core collection of Web of Science. The major findings include: 1) the top 10 high-cited references present a general picture of this area in terms of three major schools of GBI; pedagogical application of GBI and rethinking on GBI; 2) researches of GBI focus on tasks, students, academic writing and goals of GBI; 3) the key research-front terms of this area are meaning construction, genre awarenes...
