OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of English for Specific Purposes is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	41
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas	39
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation	38
Book Review	26
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines	26
Editorial Board	26
Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study	25
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies	24
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing	23
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews	19
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	19
When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses	18
Editorial Board	18
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?	18
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study	17
A genre-based analysis of questions and comments in Q&A sessions after conference paper presentations in computer science	16
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom	16
Technical single and multiword unit vocabulary in spoken rugby discourse	16
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems	16
Academic lexical coverage in TED talks and academic lectures	16
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca	15
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education	15
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles	14
Multimodal approach to translanguaging practices: From translanguaging to trans-semiotising in an EMI business course	14
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations	14

Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation	14
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement	14
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication	14
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing	14
Editorial Board	13
Corrigendum to “The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals” [English for Specific Purposes 79 (2025) 87–100]	13
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary	13
A case study of the variety of writing assignments in an undergraduate English department	13
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria	12
Commentary on Chan's (2019) investigation of the communication needs of Hong Kong business professionals: Significance for the field of ESP and further implications for research and practice	12
A practitioner’s commentary on Z. Zhang (2013) Business English students learning to write for international business: What do international business practitioners have to say about their texts?	12
The role of English language in the field of agriculture: A needs analysis	12
The acquisition of formulaic sequences in EFL email writing	12
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	11
Editorial Board	11
Writer and reader visibility in humanities research articles: Variation across language, regional variety and discipline	11
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos	11
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre	11
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations	10
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF	10
Stance taking through that-clauses in research article abstracts: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices in translated and non-translated English	10
Editorial Board	10
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation	10
A researcher's commentary on Stephen Evans' “Just wanna give you guys a bit of an update": Insider perspectives on business presentations in Hong Kong (2013)	9
Book review	9
Writing beyond the academy: Towards tasks that promote genre knowledge and transfer across contexts	8
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students	8
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation	8
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom	8
Book Review	8
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university	8
Book Review	8
Book Review	8
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria	8
Book Review	8
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics	7
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited	7
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening	7
Can digital multimodal composition facilitate content learning in a CLIL context? Insights from students’ composing processes in a legal English course	7
Editorial Board	7
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures	7
Participation in global business meetings revisited	7
Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction	7
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong	7
Editorial Board	7
Book Review	6
“In the past, we hear that a lot”: Features of and responses to tense and aspect in written Singaporean Academic English	6
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team	6
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources	6
Stance beyond words: How TED speakers construct stance through multimodal semiotic resources	6

The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list	6
A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond	6
Interactional metadiscourse in expert and student disciplinary writing: Exploring intrageneric and functional variation	6
Extending embodied cognition through robot's augmented reality in English for medical purposes classrooms	6
Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL)	5
Developing an ESP workshop to promote handover practices in nursing communication: A case study of nurses in a bilingual hospital in Hong Kong	5
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering	5
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles	5
Book Review	5
English verb-argument construction profiles in a specialized academic corpus: Variation by genre and discipline	4
Artificial Intelligence for Academic Purposes (AIAP): Integrating AI literacy into an EAP module	4
Towards LLM-assisted move annotation: Leveraging ChatGPT-4 to analyse the genre structure of CEO statements in corporate social responsibility reports	4
Book Review	4
Assessing the language needs of L2 English student pilots preparing for flight training in English-speaking countries	4
Tracing interpersonal discursive features in Australian nursing bedside handovers: Approachability features, patient engagement and insights for ESP training and working with internationally trained n	4
Learning to read patient notes in the workplace: How reading aloud and reading alongside can help students for whom English is an additional language	4
Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks	4
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres	3
Proscribed informality features in published research: A corpus analysis	3
Editorial Board	3
“This study is an attempt to”: Metadiscursive nouns in L1 and L2 Applied Linguistics research article abstracts	3
Unpacking the rhetoric of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements for academic job application purposes: A step-driven rhetorical move study	3
Book Review	3
But then something happened: A critical multimodal genre analysis of corporate image repair videos	3
Book Review	3
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis	3
Book Review	3
Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study	3
Business English writing problems of business English majors: A triangulated approach	3
Metadiscourse in English instruction manuals	3
Book Review	3
Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class	2
Intertextuality in business emails: An ESP Practitioner’s commentary on Warren’s research on intertextuality	2
Words that matter: A cross-disciplinary investigation of importance markers in 3MT presentations	2
Integrating social justice-oriented content into English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instruction: A case study	2
How epidemiologists exploit the emerging genres of twitter for public engagement	2
Leveraging ESP teachers’ roles: EMI university teachers’ professional development in medical and healthcare fields	2
A core meaning-based analysis of English semi-technical vocabulary in the medical field	2
English as a lingua franca? The limits of everyday English-language communication in Polish academia	2
Becoming a member of the business community	2
Examining promotional strategies and trends in successful grant application abstracts: Moves and appraisal resources	2
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines	2
A study of language-related episodes in online English-medium instruction classes in high schools in South Korea	2
Book Review	2
The challenges of radiotelephony communication and effective training approaches: A study of Korean pilots and air traffic controllers	2
Rhetorical distinctions: Comparing metadiscourse in essays by ChatGPT and students	2
A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals	2
The relationship between syntactic complexity and rhetorical stages in L2 learners’ texts: A comparative analysis	2
Identity construction in corporate leaders’ messages: A corpus-based cross-linguacultural study of self-mention	2
One size doesn't fit all: Exploring student expectations and disciplinary voices in ESP in Estonia	2
An examination of the use of spoken interactional metadiscourse markers in EMI lectures from different disciplines	2
Natural scientists’ perceptions of authorial voice in scientific writing: The influence of disciplinary expertise on revoicing processes	2
A corpus-based multi-dimensional analysis of the linguistic features of Aviation English	2