OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Discourse Processes is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
An action-specific examination of the role of answerers’ gaze orientation in managing transition relevance	25
Emotional shifts, event-congruent emotions, and transportation in narrative persuasion	24
Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals	20
Engagement with narrative characters: the role of social-cognitive abilities and linguistic viewpoint	17
Superman Takes a Taxi: Testing Theories of Validation with Inconsistencies in Fantastic Narratives	16
Whom to believe? Fostering source evaluation skills with interleaved presentation of untrustworthy and trustworthy social media sources	13
Topicality and attention in pronoun interpretation: the role of accessibility and predictability	13
Impact of prior knowledge and presentation on the place-on-the-page effect	13
Sarcasm Across Time and Space: Patterns of Usage by Age, Gender, and Region in the United States	10
Watch Out: Fake! How Warning Labels Affect Laypeople’s Evaluation of Simplified Scientific Misinformation	10
Does the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) as a special form of gender-fair language impair comprehensibility?	10
Is viewing a painting like reading a story?: Trans-symbolic comprehension processes and aesthetic responses across two media	10
Contributions of reading self-concept, intrinsic motivation, and reading value to sixth graders’ purposeful reading: the mediating role of the task model	9
Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs	9
An Analysis of the Linguistic Features of Popular Chinese Online Fantasy Novels	9
Topic realization in narratives elicited under cognitive load	9
Please Join Me/Us/Them on My/Our/Their Journey to Justice in STEM	9
Processes and products of readers’ journeys to narrative worlds	7
Introduction to the special issue	7
Commentary on the special issue: new approaches to figurative language research	7
The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from the United Kingdom and China	7
Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics	7
Not taking “no” for an answer: the interactional organization of accepting and refusing childhood vaccination in the Netherlands	7
Representing and remembering text paraphrases: a phantom recollection analysis	7
The fluency vs. disfluency dichotomy in writing processes as reflected in the structure of the inter-key intervals empirical distribution	6

Lexical and perceptual biases in speakers’ syntactic choices	6
Demo “but”-prefaced responses to inquiry in Japanese	6
Context models and the pragmatics of discourse	6
Construction–Integration and the Structure Building Framework: Twin siblings born of different parents	6
The role of processing foregrounding in empathic reactions in literary reading	6
Letter from the Co-Editors	6
Measuring Comprehension Monitoring with the Inconsistency Task in Adolescents: Stability, Associations with Reading Comprehension Skills, and Differences Between Grade Levels	5
Introduction: special issue in honor of Walter Kintsch	5
Text analysis approach to measuring text social information in children’s picture books	5
A Paradigm for the missing middle	5
Processing appositive relative clauses: Effects of information structure and sentence structure	5
The role of short-term memory in discourse comprehension: some reflections on the impact of Kintsch and van Dijk (1978)	5
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities	5
Narrative Experience Taxonomy: expanding think-aloud analysis for narrative experiences	5
Exploring inferences across media: an application of Kintsch’s framework of inference processes	4
Comprehension: from clause to conspiracy narrative	4
Reading perspectives moderate text-belief consistency effects in eye movements and comprehension	4
The impact of interword spacing on inference processing during text reading: Evidence from eye movements	4
Inference making and learning from text via embodied situation models: extending Kintsch’s legacy	4
When hedging helps, rather than impedes, communication: collaboration in the referential communication task	4
The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children	4
Cognitive processing of anaphoric encapsulation and coreference in native Spanish speakers: an experimental approach with eye tracking	4
Role of advanced theory of mind in teenagers’ evaluation of source information	4
Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research	4
Reading Contexts, Goals, and Decisions: Text Comprehension as a Situated Activity	3
Teachers’ gestures for building listening and spoken language skills	3
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue	3
Discourse and Agency during Scaffolded Middle School Science Instruction	3
The role of relevance determinations in multiple text reading and writing: an investigation of the MD-TRACE	3
BA and object state changes: Unspecific morphosyntactic cues shape Mandarin discourse comprehension	3
Effects of textual constraint and emojis on emotion inferences for text message senders	3
Politeness and the communication of uncertainty when breaking bad news	3
Vocabulary size and exposure to print predict mastery of connectives in teenage years	3
N400 event-related potential indices of induced mood effects on access to category-based world knowledge in central and lateralized visual fields	3
Neuroscience as a window into discourse processing: the influence of Walter Kintsch	2
Constructed responses as a window into strategic processing: the role of prompts in multiple-document reading	2
Walter Kintsch: grace and gravitas	2
Epistemicity and communicative strategies	2
Anchoring your bridge: the importance of paraphrasing to inference making in self-explanations	2
Syntactic subordination affects discourse accessibility and subjective propositional importance: evidence from Russian	2
Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence	2
Correction	2
Revolutions in the emergence of discourse processes research	2
In memoriam, Russell Schenck Tomlin (1951–2022)	2
Correction	2
Transformer models as predication machines	2
The effects of visuospatial working memory on older adults’ bridging inference processing in visual narrative comprehension	1
Importance of Learner Characteristics in Intelligent Tutoring for Adult Literacy	1
It’s Contagious!Examining Gamified Refutation Texts, Emotions, and Knowledge Retention in a Real-World Public Health Education Campaign	1
Novel metaphor processing in dyslexia: a visual world eye-tracking study	1

Unveiling the dynamics of discourse production in healthy aging and its connection to cognitive skills	1
In Pursuit of a Good Conversation: How Contribution Balance, Common Ground, and Conversational Closings Influence Conversation Assessment and Conversational Memory	1
Promoting multiple-text comprehension through thinking dispositions: a randomized controlled trial	1
Eye-tracking evidence from attachment structures favors a serial model of discourse–sentence interactivity	1
Gendered Representations of Person Referents Activated by the Nonbinary Gender Star in German: A Word-Picture Matching Task	1
Retraction statement- HDSP/ Blumenthal-Dramé Article	1
Offering an Interpretation of Prior Talk in Everyday Interaction: A Semantic Map Approach	1
Non-gendered pronoun processing: an investigation of the gender non-specific third person singular pronoun ‘TA’ in Chinese	1
A history of psychology as it happened to me	1
Testing the independent effects of refutations and summaries on understanding	1
How literary text reading is influenced by narrative voice and focalization: evidence from eye movements	1
Promoting understanding in digital contexts: using the construction-integration model as a framework for educational technology design and assessment	1
Children’s understanding of referential nominal metaphors: a path to the heart of text comprehension	1
Information Status Predicts the Incidence of Gesture in Discourse: An Experimental Study	1
Beyond initial misanalysis: the disruptive nature of garden-path sentences processing	1
Walter Kintsch: legacy and legend	1
Why does recency guide pronoun comprehension? It’s not just topicality, attention, or predictability	1
Cognitive flexibility moderates shifts in plausibility judgments of claims about climate change	1
“He May Certainly Have Forgotten”: Processing of Nested Epistemic Expressions	1
Comprehension of explicit and implicit information in prereaders: the role of maternal education, receptive vocabulary, executive functions, and theory of mind	1
Discourse Processes Adopts the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines	1
Introduction to special issue	1
Pointing at others as an embodied connection device: linking back to prior talk in multi-party interaction	1
Assessing individual competence in argumentation	1
Events shape long-term memory for story information	1
Idiom meaning selection following a prior context: eye movement evidence of L1 direct retrieval and L2 compositional assembly	1
Sounding others’ sensations in interaction	1
The contributions of Walter Kintsch: Cascading cognitive science	1
Working memory capacity as a predictor of multiple text comprehension	1
Reflections on Roy O. Freedle	1
Seeing Through the Character’s Eyes: Examining Phenomenological Experiences of Perspective-Taking During Reading	1