【Purpose/significance】The increase of articles about using word frequency analysis to explore research hotspots improve the development of specific field research. At the same time, its writing methods show more serious abuseand template phenomenon, and this phenomenon has not got enough academic attention.【Method/process】Analyzing the articles of domestic which used the word frequency analysis method on hot spot analysis in specific areas, summarizing thebasic situation of the word frequency analysis method applied to hot spots articles.【Result/conclusion】We find there aresome problems such as the stylized methods, simple stack of a variety of methods, nonstandard using of methods and over-much "topic" researches.