OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Testing is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Reviews: Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity J. Fox and N. Artemeva	24
Implementation of an accommodations policy for candidates with diverse needs in a large-scale testing system	23
The typology of second language listening constructs: A systematic review	23
Measuring the development of general language skills in English as a foreign language—Longitudinal invariance of the C-test	18
But who trains the language teacher educator who trains the language teacher? An empirical investigation of Chilean EFL teacher educators’ language assessment literacy	17
Fairness of using different English accents: The effect of shared L1s in listening tasks of the Duolingo English test	16
Can language test providers do more to support Open Science? A response to Winke	16
Evaluating the logic of a policy-driven national language test in Indonesia: A critical discursive investigation of the Test of Indonesian Proficiency (UKBI)	16
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing	15
Book review: Assessing Interactional Competence: Principles, Test Development and Validation through an L2 Chinese IC Test DaiDavid Wei. Assessing Interactional Competence: Principles, Test Developmen	15
Critical language assessment literacy of EFL teachers: Scale construction and validation	15
Investigating construct representativeness and linguistic equity of automated oral reading fluency assessment with prosody	13
Book review: Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice	12
Book Review: Reflecting on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its companion volume	11
Book review: Technology-Assisted Language Assessment in Diverse Contexts: Lessons from the Transition to Online Testing During Covid-19	11
Development of the American Sign Language Fingerspelling and Numbers Comprehension Test (ASL FaN-CT)	11
Administration, labor, and love	10
A Global South perspective on Open Science in language assessment: A response to Winke	10
The distribution of cognates and their impact on response accuracy in the EIKEN tests	10
Feedforwarding diagnostic language assessment: Artificial intelligence- (AI-) driven weakness identification and contextualised feedback for second language speaking	10
Sharing, collaborating, and building trust: How Open Science advances language testing	10
Exploring the optimal thresholds of silent pauses for measuring second language utterance fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	10
Forty years of Language Testing, and the changing paths of publishing	9
Enhancing second language speaking assessment: Integrating large language models for Finnish and Finland Swedish proficiency scoring	9
Developing internet-based Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL): An open research endeavour	9

Measuring bilingual language dominance: An examination of the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile	9
Book review: From assessment to feedback by Inez De Florio	8
Book Review: Assessing Speaking in Context—Expanding the Construct and its Applications	8
IRT-based classification analysis of an English language reading proficiency subtest	8
Making each point count: Revising a local adaptation of the Jacobs et al.’s (1981) ESL COMPOSITION PROFILE rubric	8
Critical discursive approaches to evaluating policy-driven testing: Social impact as a target for validation	8
Open Science should be welcomed by test providers but grounded in pragmatic caution: A response to Winke	7
Test Review: The International English Language Testing System (IELTS)	7
Test score validity periods for high-stakes language tests: Applications in higher education and medical sectors	7
A sow’s ear purse: Developing an integrated placement test in an under-resourced English for Academic Purposes program	7
Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA): An NLP application for the analysis of syntactic complexity in second language production	7
Test review: High-stakes English language proficiency tests—Enquiry, resit, and retake policies	7
Utopian and dystopian visions: Steering a course for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in language testing and assessment	6
Examining the consistency of instructor versus large language model ratings on summary content: Toward checklist-based feedback provision with second language writers	6
A systematic review of differential item functioning in second language assessment	6
Evaluating methodological enhancements to the Yes/No Angoff standard-setting method in language proficiency assessment	6
Roles of working memory, syllogistic inferencing ability, and linguistic knowledge on second language listening comprehension for passages of different lengths	6
Construct validity and fairness of an operational listening test with World Englishes	6
Towards more valid scoring criteria for integrated reading-writing and listening-writing summary tasks	6
Language testers and their place in the policy web	6