OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of System is 44. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring Chinese EFL student teachers' emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in receiving peer feedback on microteaching	178
Exploring factors affecting English language teacher wellbeing: insights from positive psychology	159
En route to becoming researcher-teachers? Chinese university EFL teachers’ boundary crossing in professional doctoral programs	95
Aggregating the evidence of automatic speech recognition research claims in CALL	95
English-as-a-foreign language university instructors' perceptions of integrating artificial intelligence: A Turkish perspective	93
Within- and out-of-school FL exposure and learning: An expectancy-value theory perspective on FL listening motivation	91
The effect of pre-reading morphological intervention on the acquisition and retention of morphologically complex words	86
A narrative autobiographical exploration of language-in-education policy roles in a youth reengagement program	83
Subtitles for vocabulary learning: Assessing the effects of L2, L1, and bilingual subtitles over time	83
Validating word lists that represent learner knowledge in EFL contexts: The impact of the definition of word and the choice of source corpora	81
When to conduct a vocabulary quiz, before the review or after the review?	75
Is the magic in the mix? The development and validation of the L2 teachers’ blended assessment literacy scale	73
The effects of task complexity on lexical complexity in L2 writing: An exploratory study	70
Institutional leaders and teacher research: Roles, interactions, and impacts	68
Emotion and agency in building a Language Other Than English Teacher's research-teaching nexus	68
Resilience in language classrooms: Exploring individual antecedents and consequences	67
Book review	66
Book review	63
Editorial Board	61
Book review	61
Influence of stroke-order learning on Chinese character recognition among Chinese as a second language learners	60
Examining EFL learners’ oral advice production: The role of pragmatic demands and task complexity	57
Predicting the emotional labor strategies of Chinese English Foreign Language teachers	57
The role of task repetition in shaping L2 writing self-efficacy, L2 writing anxiety, and L2 written production	56
Bridging classroom and real-life learning mediated by a mobile app with a self-regulation scheme: Impacts on Chinese EFL primary students’ self-regulated vocabulary learning outcomes, enjoyment, and l	56

Conquering the tower of Babel? How linguistic distance affects second and foreign language reading in German, English, and French in year 9 in Germany	55
Corrigendum to “Mitigating ethnic minority students' foreign language anxiety through co-learning in Chinese as an additional language classrooms: A transpositioning perspective” [System 127 (2024) 10	54
Language learning beyond the classrooms: Experiences of Vietnamese English major and non-English major students	52
How are personality factors connected to EFL learners’ oral performance? A psychological network analysis	50
“This dissertation intricately explores…”: ChatGPT's shell noun use in rephrasing dissertation abstracts	50
Book review	50
Intersections of social justice and emotion labor among English language teachers: A perezhivanie inquiry	50
Editorial Board	48
How age and L2 proficiency affectthe L2 lexicon	47
Book review	47
Anchoring in the meso-level: Departmental preparation for the adoption of blended learning in tertiary education	46
Untangling the relationship between English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive experiences and writing proficiency: A mixed-methods approach	46
Pinpointing the pivotal mediating forces of directed motivational currents (DMCs): Evidence from the Q methodology	46
Q methodology in applied linguistics: A systematic research synthesis	46
Book review	46
Teachers matter: Exploring the impact of perceived teacher affective support and teacher enjoyment on L2 learner grit and burnout	45
The impact of Global Englishes classroom-based innovation on school-aged language learners' perceptions of English: An exercise in practitioner and researcher partnership	45
A systematic review of research on emotional artificial intelligence in English language education	44
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary	44