<p>This study conducts a bibliometric analysis of linguistic evaluation research, focusing on English-language journal articles from the WoS Core Collection (1992–2023). The findings indicate a growing trajectory and comparatively wide application in the humanities and social sciences. Anchored by the stance triangle, appraisal theory, and metadiscourse, some studies explore the expression of attitude and/or the construction of identity, while others combine critical discourse analysis (CDA) to uncover inequality and ideology tied to specific socio-political issues. Moreover, scholars from the West have laid the theoretical foundations, while emerging contributors from China’s mainland, Nigeria, and South Africa have recently introduced diverse socio-political topics, thereby promoting a global dialogue on these issues. Methodologically, corpus techniques have been increasingly incorporated into this traditionally qualitative field in the past dozen years, thereby providing more systematic empirical evidence and helping to mitigate researcher subjectivity. It is anticipated that the quantitative approach of sentiment analysis, a subfield of natural language processing (NLP), will emerge as a useful method with the potential to provide novel insights into linguistic evaluation research. An increasing interdisciplinary tendency is expected to deepen our comprehension of linguistic evaluation.</p>