OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of English for Specific Purposes is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	57
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas	49
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines	45
Book Review	39
Editorial Board	35
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews	33
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies	30
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation	29
Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study	29
Development and validation of the Professional English Proficiency Perception (PEPP) scale	27
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?	25
Book Review	25
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	25
When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses	23
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study	23
Cross-sectional distribution of authorial presence in medicine research articles: A corpus-based study of self-mentions	21
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom	21
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems	21
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education	20
Editorial Board	19
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations	19
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement	18
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles	18
Editorial Board	17
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca	17

The rhetorical legacy of John Swales: Metadiscourse, style, and the construction of an EAP community	17
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation	16
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary	16
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication	15
Multimodal approach to translanguaging practices: From translanguaging to trans-semiotising in an EMI business course	15
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing	15
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]	14
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?	14
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	14
Metadiscoursal adjectives in novice academic writing	13
Cross-disciplinary variation in exemplification: A local grammar analysis of biology and applied linguistics research articles	13
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria	13
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre	12
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos	12
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	12
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation	11
Editorial Board	11
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF	11
Editorial Board	11
Book review	10
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations	10
Mapping 100-year trajectories: Research article titles in four top general medical journals	10
Stance taking through that-clauses in research article abstracts: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices in translated and non-translated English	10
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university	9
Book Review	9
Book Review	9
Book Review	9
Writing beyond the academy: Towards tasks that promote genre knowledge and transfer across contexts	9
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
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students	9
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
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation	8
Participation in global business meetings revisited	8
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom	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
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures	7
Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction	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
Editorial Board	7
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
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources	6
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong	6
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited	6
Towards LLM-assisted move annotation: Leveraging ChatGPT-4 to analyse the genre structure of CEO statements in corporate social responsibility reports	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

Extending embodied cognition through robot's augmented reality in English for medical purposes classrooms	5
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles	5
Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL)	5
Artificial Intelligence for Academic Purposes (AIAP): Integrating AI literacy into an EAP module	5
Stance beyond words: How TED speakers construct stance through multimodal semiotic resources	5
The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list	5
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering	5
Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks	5
Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study	5
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team	5
Book Review	5
But then something happened: A critical multimodal genre analysis of corporate image repair videos	4
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres	4
Business English writing problems of business English majors: A triangulated approach	4
Bridging science and audience: Involvement strategies in three minute thesis presentations	4
“This study is an attempt to”: Metadiscursive nouns in L1 and L2 Applied Linguistics research article abstracts	4
Book Review	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
Book Review	4
Book Review	4
Unpacking the rhetoric of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements for academic job application purposes: A step-driven rhetorical move study	4
Book Review	4
Assessing the language needs of L2 English student pilots preparing for flight training in English-speaking countries	4
Book Review	4
Can AI mirror the human voice? Stance in scholar-written and ChatGPT-generated medical abstracts	4
A BERT-based method to develop discipline-specific academic vocabulary lists in large corpora	4
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis	4
Intertextuality in business emails: An ESP Practitioner’s commentary on Warren’s research on intertextuality	3
The challenges of radiotelephony communication and effective training approaches: A study of Korean pilots and air traffic controllers	3
One size doesn't fit all: Exploring student expectations and disciplinary voices in ESP in Estonia	3
AI-mediated genre learning in the business English class	3
Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class	3
Becoming a member of the business community	3
A corpus-based multi-dimensional analysis of the linguistic features of Aviation English	3
Identity construction in corporate leaders’ messages: A corpus-based cross-linguacultural study of self-mention	3
Words that matter: A cross-disciplinary investigation of importance markers in 3MT presentations	3
A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals	3
The relationship between syntactic complexity and rhetorical stages in L2 learners’ texts: A comparative analysis	3
Textography: Looking inside the worlds of academic writing	3
Examining promotional strategies and trends in successful grant application abstracts: Moves and appraisal resources	3