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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	46
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas	45
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation	43
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines	43
Book Review	33
Editorial Board	29
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews	28
Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study	27
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing	27
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies	26
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?	25
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	22
When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses	21
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study	21
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom	20
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems	19
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education	19
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca	18
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles	18
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement	18
Editorial Board	18
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations	17
Multimodal approach to translanguaging practices: From translanguaging to trans-semiotising in an EMI business course	16
Editorial Board	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
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing	15
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation	15
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria	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	14
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
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos	13
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	12
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	12
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre	12
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation	11
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF	11
Book review	11
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations	11
Stance taking through that-clauses in research article abstracts: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices in translated and non-translated English	11
Writing beyond the academy: Towards tasks that promote genre knowledge and transfer across contexts	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)	10
Book Review	10
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university	10
Book Review	10
Book Review	9
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom	9
Book Review	9
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students	9
Participation in global business meetings revisited	9
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics	8
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria	8
Editorial Board	8
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation	8
Can digital multimodal composition facilitate content learning in a CLIL context? Insights from students’ composing processes in a legal English course	8
Editorial Board	8
Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction	8
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong	7
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited	7
Interactional metadiscourse in expert and student disciplinary writing: Exploring intrageneric and functional variation	7
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures	7
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources	7
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening	7
A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond	7
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles	6
The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list	6
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering	6
Book Review	6
Stance beyond words: How TED speakers construct stance through multimodal semiotic resources	6
Towards LLM-assisted move annotation: Leveraging ChatGPT-4 to analyse the genre structure of CEO statements in corporate social responsibility reports	6
Extending embodied cognition through robot's augmented reality in English for medical purposes classrooms	6
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team	6

Developing an ESP workshop to promote handover practices in nursing communication: A case study of nurses in a bilingual hospital in Hong Kong	5
Book Review	5
Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL)	5
Learning to read patient notes in the workplace: How reading aloud and reading alongside can help students for whom English is an additional language	5
Artificial Intelligence for Academic Purposes (AIAP): Integrating AI literacy into an EAP module	5
Book Review	5
Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks	5
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres	4
Book Review	4
“This study is an attempt to”: Metadiscursive nouns in L1 and L2 Applied Linguistics research article abstracts	4
Identity construction in corporate leaders’ messages: A corpus-based cross-linguacultural study of self-mention	4
Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study	4
But then something happened: A critical multimodal genre analysis of corporate image repair videos	4
A BERT-based method to develop discipline-specific academic vocabulary lists in large corpora	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
Assessing the language needs of L2 English student pilots preparing for flight training in English-speaking countries	4
Book Review	4
Business English writing problems of business English majors: A triangulated approach	4
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis	4
AI-mediated genre learning in the business English class	4
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines	3
Examining promotional strategies and trends in successful grant application abstracts: Moves and appraisal resources	3
The challenges of radiotelephony communication and effective training approaches: A study of Korean pilots and air traffic controllers	3
How epidemiologists exploit the emerging genres of twitter for public engagement	3
Intertextuality in business emails: An ESP Practitioner’s commentary on Warren’s research on intertextuality	3
One size doesn't fit all: Exploring student expectations and disciplinary voices in ESP in Estonia	3
A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals	3
Becoming a member of the business community	3
Words that matter: A cross-disciplinary investigation of importance markers in 3MT presentations	3
Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class	3
The relationship between syntactic complexity and rhetorical stages in L2 learners’ texts: A comparative analysis	3
A core meaning-based analysis of English semi-technical vocabulary in the medical field	3