OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Discourse Processes is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
If Integration Is the Keystone of Comprehension: Inferencing Is the Key	19
Early Responses: An Introduction	18
How Early can Embodied Responses be? Issues in Time and Sequentiality	17
Relations Between Component Reading Skills, Inferences, and Comprehension Performance in Community College Readers	16
Emotions in Reading and Learning from Texts: Progress and Open Problems	16
Four Decades of Research into Children’s Reading Comprehension: A Personal Review	15
Machine-Learned Computational Models Can Enhance the Study of Text and Discourse: A Case Study Using Eye Tracking to Model Reading Comprehension	13
Multimodal Coordination of Sound and Movement in Music and Speech	13
Talk About Evidence During Argumentation	13
Micro-Sequential Coordination in Early Responses	12
Incremental Comprehension Examined in Event-related Potentials: Word-to-Text Integration and Structure Building	10
Unpacking the Gestures of Chemistry Learners: What the Hands Tell Us About Correct and Incorrect Conceptions of Stereochemistry	10
Emotions and the Comprehension of Single versus Multiple Texts during Game-based Learning	10
Effects of Emotions, Topic Beliefs, and Task Instructions on the Processing and Memory for a Dual-Position Text	10
The Role of Source Credibility in the Validation of Information Depends on the Degree of (Im-)Plausibility	10
Cognitive Effort in Text Processing and Reading Comprehension in Print and on Tablet: An Eye-Tracking Study	10
Individual differences in expecting coherence relations: Exploring the variability in sensitivity to contextual signals in discourse	10
Embodied Responses to Questions-in-Progress: Silent Nods as Affirmative Answers	10
The Roles of Identity Conflict, Emotion, and Threat in Learning from Refutation Texts on Vaccination and Immigration	10
Emotional Responses to Seductive Scientific Texts During Online and Offline Reading Tasks	9
Here’s Hoping It’s not Just Text Structure: The Role of Emotions in Knowledge Revision and the Backfire Effect	9
Weak and Strong Discourse Markers in Speech, Chat, and Writing: Do Signals Compensate for Ambiguity in Explicit Relations?	9
Reading Contexts, Goals, and Decisions: Text Comprehension as a Situated Activity	9
Inside Document Models: Role of Source Attributes in Readers’ Integration of Multiple Text Contents	9
Examining the Simultaneous Effects of L1 Writing, L2 Reading, L2 Proficiency, and Affective Factors on Different Task Types of L2 Writing	8

Compensating for processing difficulty in discourse: Effect of parallelism in contrastive relations	8
Turn-end Estimation in Conversational Turn-taking: The Roles of Context and Prosody	8
Working toward a theoretical model for source comprehension in everyday discourse	8
Achieving Preallocation: Turn Transition Practices in Board Games	7
Bridging Inferences and Learning from Multiple Complementary Texts	7
Please Join Me/Us/Them on My/Our/Their Journey to Justice in STEM	6
Word Order Affects Response Latency: Action Projection and the Timing of Responses to Question-word Questions	6
Packaging Information as Fact Versus Opinion: Consequences of the (Information-)Structural Position of Subjective Adjectives	6
Introduction to the Special Issue on Emotions in Reading, Learning, and Communication	6
The predictability of implicit causes: testing frequency and topicality explanations	6
Text-Belief Consistency Effects in L2 Readers	6
Examining Relation Formation Across Consistent and Conflicting Texts	5
Interactions Between Lower- and Higher-Level Processing When Reading in a Second Language: An Eye-Tracking Study	5
The Primacy of Multimodal Alignment in Converging on Shared Symbols for Novel Referents	5
When Figurative Frames Decrease Political Persuasion: The Case of Right-Wing Anti-Immigration Rhetoric	5
The Representation of Emotion Inferences	5
Subjectivity (Re)visited: A Corpus Study of English Forward Causal Connectives in Different Domains of Spoken and Written Language	5
Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Projection in Overlapping Agreements to Assertions: Stance-Taking as a Resource for Projection	4
Speaking Style Modulates Morphosyntactic Expectations in Young and Older Adults: Evidence from a Sentence Repetition Task	4
Dynamic Resonance and Explicit Dialogic Engagement in Mandarin First Language Acquisition	4
Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence	4
The Online Processing of Causal and Concessive Relations: Comparing Native Speakers of English and German	4
Discourse and Agency during Scaffolded Middle School Science Instruction	4
Sounding others’ sensations in interaction	4
The Role of Connectives and Stance Markers in the Processing of Subjective Causal Relations	4
Avoidance of gender-ambiguous pronouns as a consequence of ambiguity-avoidance strategy	4
What Influences Successful Communication? An Examination of Cognitive Load and Individual Differences	4
Parental Use of Multimodal Cues in the Initiation of Joint Attention as a Function of Child Hearing Status	4
Embodied Action, Projection, and Institutional Action: The Exchange of Tools and Implements During Surgical Procedures	4
Text-Based Manipulation of the Coherence Threshold	4
An Analysis of the Linguistic Features of Popular Chinese Online Fantasy Novels	4
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue	4
Lost in a Story, Detached from the Words	4
Anchoring your bridge: the importance of paraphrasing to inference making in self-explanations	4
Story Grammar Elements and Mental State Terms in the Expression of Enabling Relations in Narratives of Bilingual Preschool Children	4
Watch Out: Fake! How Warning Labels Affect Laypeople’s Evaluation of Simplified Scientific Misinformation	3
Learning From Refutation and Standard Expository Science Texts: The Contribution of Inhibitory Functions in Relation to Text Type	3
To Put It Differently: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of Reformulation Markers in Student Essays	3
Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics	3
Effects of Priming and Audience Design on the Explicitness of Referring Expressions: Evidence From a Confederate Priming Paradigm	3
Do different kinds of introductions influence comprehension and memory for scientific explanations?	3
Measuring Comprehension Monitoring with the Inconsistency Task in Adolescents: Stability, Associations with Reading Comprehension Skills, and Differences Between Grade Levels	3
Integration in Multiple-Document Comprehension: A Natural Language Processing Approach	3
Readers’ Regulation and Resolution of a Scientific Conflict Based on Differences in Source Information: An Eye-Tracking Study	3
Estimating Each Other’s Memory Biases in Dialogue	3
Integration: Key but Not So Simple	3
The Effect of Fiction vs Nonfiction in the Digital Era: Text Comprehension not Influenced by Genre Expectations	3
Chasing Theory with Technology: A Quest to Understand Understanding	3
Gendered Representations of Person Referents Activated by the Nonbinary Gender Star in German: A Word-Picture Matching Task	3
Perceptual Simulation of Vertical Object Movement during Comprehension of Auditory and Audiovisual Text in Children and Adults	3

Illustrations Before Text Reduce Visuospatial Working Memory Load During Text Processing	3
Commentary on the Special Issue on Emotions in Reading, Learning, and Communication: A Big Step Forward, More Giant Leaps to Come	2
Visuospatial Working Memory and Understanding Co-Speech Iconic Gestures: Do Gestures Help to Paint a Mental Picture?	2
Social justice reasoning when students learn about social issues using multiple texts	2
Teachers’ gestures for building listening and spoken language skills	2
The Role of Need for Closure and Need for Cognition in Writing-Specific Psychological Factors	2
Arguing for Teachers and for Friends: Eighth-graders’ Sensitivity to Argumentation Features When Judging and Revising Persuasive Essays	2
Is viewing a painting like reading a story?: Trans-symbolic comprehension processes and aesthetic responses across two media	2
It’s Contagious! Examining Gamified Refutation Texts, Emotions, and Knowledge Retention in a Real-World Public Health Education Campaign	2