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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	47
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas	34
Editorial Board	33
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews	33
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing	24
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines	23
Book Review	22
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies	22
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation	21
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?	20
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	19
Editorial Board	17
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study	16
Academic lexical coverage in TED talks and academic lectures	15
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom	15
A genre-based analysis of questions and comments in Q&A sessions after conference paper presentations in computer science	15
Technical single and multiword unit vocabulary in spoken rugby discourse	14
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education	14
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement	14
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems	14
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca	13
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles	13
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations	12
Editorial Board	12
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary	12

A case study of the variety of writing assignments in an undergraduate English department	11
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing	11
Writer and reader visibility in humanities research articles: Variation across language, regional variety and discipline	11
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication	11
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	11
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation	11
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria	11
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos	10
The role of English language in the field of agriculture: A needs analysis	10
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre	10
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]	10
The place of language in the theoretical tenets, textbooks, and classroom practices in the ESP genre-based approach to teaching writing	10
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation	10
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?	10
The acquisition of formulaic sequences in EFL email writing	10
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	9
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations	9
Book Review	8
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)	8
Book review	8
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university	8
Book Review	7
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation	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
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics	7
Book Review	7
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom	7
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria	7
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students	7
Book Review	7
“In the past, we hear that a lot”: Features of and responses to tense and aspect in written Singaporean Academic English	6
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources	6
Editorial Board	6
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures	6
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong	6
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening	6
Editorial Board	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
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited	6
Extending embodied cognition through robot's augmented reality in English for medical purposes classrooms	5
Book Review	5
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles	5
The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list	5
Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks	5
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team	5

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	4
Proscribed informality features in published research: A corpus analysis	4
Book Review	4
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering	4
Artificial Intelligence for Academic Purposes (AIAP): Integrating AI literacy into an EAP module	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
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
Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study	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
English verb-argument construction profiles in a specialized academic corpus: Variation by genre and discipline	3
Book Review	3
Editorial Board	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
Assessing the language needs of L2 English student pilots preparing for flight training in English-speaking countries	3
Book Review	3
Book Review	3
But then something happened: A critical multimodal genre analysis of corporate image repair videos	3
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres	3
Metadiscourse in English instruction manuals	3
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines	2
Intertextuality in business emails: An ESP Practitioner’s commentary on Warren’s research on intertextuality	2
Rhetorical distinctions: Comparing metadiscourse in essays by ChatGPT and students	2
A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals	2
Editorial Board	2
Examining promotional strategies and trends in successful grant application abstracts: Moves and appraisal resources	2
If it had been conducted with a larger database…: A comparison of If-constructions in Chinese L2 learners' theses and published research articles	2
Becoming a member of the business community	2
Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class	2
Book Review	2
Integrating social justice-oriented content into English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instruction: A case study	2
A core meaning-based analysis of English semi-technical vocabulary in the medical field	2
How epidemiologists exploit the emerging genres of twitter for public engagement	2
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis	2