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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
An action-specific examination of the role of answerers’ gaze orientation in managing transition relevance	32
Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals	20
Emotional shifts, event-congruent emotions, and transportation in narrative persuasion	17
Impact of prior knowledge and presentation on the place-on-the-page effect	16
Topicality and attention in pronoun interpretation: the role of accessibility and predictability	13
Superman Takes a Taxi: Testing Theories of Validation with Inconsistencies in Fantastic Narratives	12
Whom to believe? Fostering source evaluation skills with interleaved presentation of untrustworthy and trustworthy social media sources	11
Does the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) as a special form of gender-fair language impair comprehensibility?	11
Is viewing a painting like reading a story?: Trans-symbolic comprehension processes and aesthetic responses across two media	10
Engagement with narrative characters: the role of social-cognitive abilities and linguistic viewpoint	10
Please Join Me/Us/Them on My/Our/Their Journey to Justice in STEM	10
Bilingual Discourse Comprehension: The Role of Language Overlap in Updating the Discourse Representation	9
Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs	9
Watch Out: Fake! How Warning Labels Affect Laypeople’s Evaluation of Simplified Scientific Misinformation	9
Topic realization in narratives elicited under cognitive load	8
Sarcasm Across Time and Space: Patterns of Usage by Age, Gender, and Region in the United States	8
Not taking “no” for an answer: the interactional organization of accepting and refusing childhood vaccination in the Netherlands	7
An Analysis of the Linguistic Features of Popular Chinese Online Fantasy Novels	7
Commentary on the special issue: new approaches to figurative language research	6
Processes and products of readers’ journeys to narrative worlds	6
Representing and remembering text paraphrases: a phantom recollection analysis	6
The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from the United Kingdom and China	6
Demo “but”-prefaced responses to inquiry in Japanese	5
Construction–Integration and the Structure Building Framework: Twin siblings born of different parents	5
Context models and the pragmatics of discourse	5

Readers’ Regulation and Resolution of a Scientific Conflict Based on Differences in Source Information: An Eye-Tracking Study	5
Interaction of Script Knowledge and Temporal Discourse Cues in a Visual World Study	5
Letter from the Co-Editors	5
Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics	5
The role of processing foregrounding in empathic reactions in literary reading	5
The role of short-term memory in discourse comprehension: some reflections on the impact of Kintsch and van Dijk (1978)	4
Measuring Comprehension Monitoring with the Inconsistency Task in Adolescents: Stability, Associations with Reading Comprehension Skills, and Differences Between Grade Levels	4
Lexical and perceptual biases in speakers’ syntactic choices	4
Text analysis approach to measuring text social information in children’s picture books	4
The fluency vs. disfluency dichotomy in writing processes as reflected in the structure of the inter-key intervals empirical distribution	4
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities	4
A Paradigm for the missing middle	3
Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research	3
Inference making and learning from text via embodied situation models: extending Kintsch’s legacy	3
Exploring inferences across media: an application of Kintsch’s framework of inference processes	3
The impact of interword spacing on inference processing during text reading: Evidence from eye movements	3
Role of advanced theory of mind in teenagers’ evaluation of source information	3
When hedging helps, rather than impedes, communication: collaboration in the referential communication task	3
Comprehension: from clause to conspiracy narrative	3
Introduction: special issue in honor of Walter Kintsch	3
Processing appositive relative clauses: Effects of information structure and sentence structure	3
The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children	3
Reading perspectives moderate text-belief consistency effects in eye movements and comprehension	3
Discourse and Agency during Scaffolded Middle School Science Instruction	2
Neuroscience as a window into discourse processing: the influence of Walter Kintsch	2
Politeness and the communication of uncertainty when breaking bad news	2
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue	2
Teachers’ gestures for building listening and spoken language skills	2
Chasing Theory with Technology: A Quest to Understand Understanding	2
Syntactic subordination affects discourse accessibility and subjective propositional importance: evidence from Russian	2
Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence	2
Reading Contexts, Goals, and Decisions: Text Comprehension as a Situated Activity	2
Vocabulary size and exposure to print predict mastery of connectives in teenage years	2
Revolutions in the emergence of discourse processes research	2
In memoriam, Russell Schenck Tomlin (1951–2022)	2
Transformer models as predication machines	2
Anchoring your bridge: the importance of paraphrasing to inference making in self-explanations	2
The role of relevance determinations in multiple text reading and writing: an investigation of the MD-TRACE	2
N400 event-related potential indices of induced mood effects on access to category-based world knowledge in central and lateralized visual fields	2
Pointing at others as an embodied connection device: linking back to prior talk in multi-party interaction	1
A Message From the Editors for the 2020 Conference Special Issue	1
Correction	1
Promoting multiple-text comprehension through thinking dispositions: a randomized controlled trial	1
Sounding others’ sensations in interaction	1
Promoting understanding in digital contexts: using the construction-integration model as a framework for educational technology design and assessment	1
Novel metaphor processing in dyslexia: a visual world eye-tracking study	1
Walter Kintsch: grace and gravitas	1
Tense and Discourse Structure: The Timeline Hypothesis	1
Seeing Through the Character’s Eyes: Examining Phenomenological Experiences of Perspective-Taking During Reading	1
Epistemicity and communicative strategies	1

Discourse Processes Adopts the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines	1
Commentary on the Special Issue on Emotions in Reading, Learning, and Communication: A Big Step Forward, More Giant Leaps to Come	1
Why does recency guide pronoun comprehension? It’s not just topicality, attention, or predictability	1
Gendered Representations of Person Referents Activated by the Nonbinary Gender Star in German: A Word-Picture Matching Task	1
How literary text reading is influenced by narrative voice and focalization: evidence from eye movements	1
Importance of Learner Characteristics in Intelligent Tutoring for Adult Literacy	1
Correction	1
“He May Certainly Have Forgotten”: Processing of Nested Epistemic Expressions	1
Assessing individual competence in argumentation	1
Working memory capacity as a predictor of multiple text comprehension	1
Offering an Interpretation of Prior Talk in Everyday Interaction: A Semantic Map Approach	1