Professor of Chinese at National Taiwan University Chou Feng-wu has conducted research into Chinese moonspeak, resulting in the paper "The Beauty and Sorrow of Moonspeak."
台大中文系教授周鳳五曾對火星文做了深入的探討，並發表〈火星文的美麗與哀愁〉一文。根據周鳳五的研究，火星文起源於線上遊戲。