OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse Processes is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An action-specific examination of the role of answerers’ gaze orientation in managing transition relevance	34
Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals	16
Emotional shifts, event-congruent emotions, and transportation in narrative persuasion	14
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
Structural processing of visual narratives in autism	13
Engagement with narrative characters: the role of social-cognitive abilities and linguistic viewpoint	12
Filled pauses engage attention but, uh, do not seem to affect structural processing	12
Whom to believe? Fostering source evaluation skills with interleaved presentation of untrustworthy and trustworthy social media sources	12
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults	11
Does the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) as a special form of gender-fair language impair comprehensibility?	11
Fantasy-based violations of real-world knowledge: when witches can and cannot fly on broomsticks	10
Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs	10
Is viewing a painting like reading a story?: Trans-symbolic comprehension processes and aesthetic responses across two media	10
Sarcasm Across Time and Space: Patterns of Usage by Age, Gender, and Region in the United States	9
Observations of relational reasoning and strategic processing in an interdisciplinary team	9
Commentary on the special issue: new approaches to figurative language research	8
The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from the United Kingdom and China	8
Contributions of reading self-concept, intrinsic motivation, and reading value to sixth graders’ purposeful reading: the mediating role of the task model	7
Topic realization in narratives elicited under cognitive load	7
Not taking “no” for an answer: the interactional organization of accepting and refusing childhood vaccination in the Netherlands	7
Processes and products of readers’ journeys to narrative worlds	7
Representing and remembering text paraphrases: a phantom recollection analysis	6
Construction–Integration and the Structure Building Framework: Twin siblings born of different parents	6
Introduction to the special issue	6

Lexical and perceptual biases in speakers’ syntactic choices	6
The role of prosody in facilitating memory for discourse information in Mandarin Chinese: evidence from a delayed recall task	6
Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics	6
Letter from the Co-Editors	6
Text analysis approach to measuring text social information in children’s picture books	5
Context models and the pragmatics of discourse	5
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities	5
Demo “but”-prefaced responses to inquiry in Japanese	5
The role of short-term memory in discourse comprehension: some reflections on the impact of Kintsch and van Dijk (1978)	5
The role of processing foregrounding in empathic reactions in literary reading	5
Persuasion versus deliberation: discourse patterns in children’s argumentative dialogues	4
Introduction: special issue in honor of Walter Kintsch	4
When hedging helps, rather than impedes, communication: collaboration in the referential communication task	4
A Paradigm for the missing middle	4
The fluency vs. disfluency dichotomy in writing processes as reflected in the structure of the inter-key intervals empirical distribution	4
Processing appositive relative clauses: Effects of information structure and sentence structure	4
Narrative Experience Taxonomy: expanding think-aloud analysis for narrative experiences	4
Role of advanced theory of mind in teenagers’ evaluation of source information	4
Exploring inferences across media: an application of Kintsch’s framework of inference processes	3
Inference making and learning from text via embodied situation models: extending Kintsch’s legacy	3
Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research	3
The impact of interword spacing on inference processing during text reading: Evidence from eye movements	3
Cognitive processing of anaphoric encapsulation and coreference in native Spanish speakers: an experimental approach with eye tracking	3
Reading perspectives moderate text-belief consistency effects in eye movements and comprehension	3
Mental representation derived from path descriptions: can natural-based landmarks make a difference?	3
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue	3
Two types of abductive causal reasoning in discourse processing: evidence from eye tracking during reading	3
The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children	3