OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse Processes is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An action-specific examination of the role of answerers’ gaze orientation in managing transition relevance	28
Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals	26
Emotional shifts, event-congruent emotions, and transportation in narrative persuasion	19
Topicality and attention in pronoun interpretation: the role of accessibility and predictability	15
Whom to believe? Fostering source evaluation skills with interleaved presentation of untrustworthy and trustworthy social media sources	15
Impact of prior knowledge and presentation on the place-on-the-page effect	12
Does the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) as a special form of gender-fair language impair comprehensibility?	12
Engagement with narrative characters: the role of social-cognitive abilities and linguistic viewpoint	11
Structural processing of visual narratives in autism	11
Fantasy-based violations of real-world knowledge: when witches can and cannot fly on broomsticks	10
Is viewing a painting like reading a story?: Trans-symbolic comprehension processes and aesthetic responses across two media	10
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults	10
Watch Out: Fake! How Warning Labels Affect Laypeople’s Evaluation of Simplified Scientific Misinformation	10
Sarcasm Across Time and Space: Patterns of Usage by Age, Gender, and Region in the United States	10
Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs	10
Not taking “no” for an answer: the interactional organization of accepting and refusing childhood vaccination in the Netherlands	10
Contributions of reading self-concept, intrinsic motivation, and reading value to sixth graders’ purposeful reading: the mediating role of the task model	9
Processes and products of readers’ journeys to narrative worlds	9
The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from the United Kingdom and China	9
Topic realization in narratives elicited under cognitive load	9
Commentary on the special issue: new approaches to figurative language research	8
Representing and remembering text paraphrases: a phantom recollection analysis	8
Demo “but”-prefaced responses to inquiry in Japanese	7
Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics	7
Introduction to the special issue	7

The role of prosody in facilitating memory for discourse information in Mandarin Chinese: evidence from a delayed recall task	7
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities	6
The role of processing foregrounding in empathic reactions in literary reading	6
Letter from the Co-Editors	6
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
Context models and the pragmatics of discourse	6
Construction–Integration and the Structure Building Framework: Twin siblings born of different parents	6
Text analysis approach to measuring text social information in children’s picture books	5
Narrative Experience Taxonomy: expanding think-aloud analysis for narrative experiences	5
The role of short-term memory in discourse comprehension: some reflections on the impact of Kintsch and van Dijk (1978)	5
Introduction: special issue in honor of Walter Kintsch	5
Measuring Comprehension Monitoring with the Inconsistency Task in Adolescents: Stability, Associations with Reading Comprehension Skills, and Differences Between Grade Levels	5
A Paradigm for the missing middle	5
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue	4
The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children	4
When hedging helps, rather than impedes, communication: collaboration in the referential communication task	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
Processing appositive relative clauses: Effects of information structure and sentence structure	4
Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research	4
Role of advanced theory of mind in teenagers’ evaluation of source information	4