English for Specific Purposes

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board45
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas44
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation42
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines38
Book Review32
Editorial Board28
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies27
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing26
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews26
Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study26
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals24
When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses21
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?21
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study20
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom19
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education19
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles18
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems18
Editorial Board18
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca18
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement17
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations16
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation15
Multimodal approach to translanguaging practices: From translanguaging to trans-semiotising in an EMI business course15
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing15
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary15
Editorial Board15
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication15
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
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
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos14
Metadiscoursal adjectives in novice academic writing14
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 practice14
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria13
Editorial Board12
Editorial Board11
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre11
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals11
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
Stance taking through that-clauses in research article abstracts: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices in translated and non-translated English10
Book review10
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF10
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations10
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation10
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria9
Book Review9
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students9
Writing beyond the academy: Towards tasks that promote genre knowledge and transfer across contexts9
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university9
Book Review9
Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction8
Participation in global business meetings revisited8
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation8
Editorial Board8
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom8
Book Review8
Can digital multimodal composition facilitate content learning in a CLIL context? Insights from students’ composing processes in a legal English course8
Editorial Board8
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics8
Book Review8
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited7
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources7
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong7
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures7
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening7
Interactional metadiscourse in expert and student disciplinary writing: Exploring intrageneric and functional variation7
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team6
A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond6
Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL)6
The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list6
Stance beyond words: How TED speakers construct stance through multimodal semiotic resources6
Extending embodied cognition through robot's augmented reality in English for medical purposes classrooms6
Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks5
Book Review5
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles5
Developing an ESP workshop to promote handover practices in nursing communication: A case study of nurses in a bilingual hospital in Hong Kong5
Artificial Intelligence for Academic Purposes (AIAP): Integrating AI literacy into an EAP module5
Book Review5
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering5
Towards LLM-assisted move annotation: Leveraging ChatGPT-4 to analyse the genre structure of CEO statements in corporate social responsibility reports5
Book Review5
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres4
But then something happened: A critical multimodal genre analysis of corporate image repair videos4
A BERT-based method to develop discipline-specific academic vocabulary lists in large corpora4
Learning to read patient notes in the workplace: How reading aloud and reading alongside can help students for whom English is an additional language4
Business English writing problems of business English majors: A triangulated approach4
Unpacking the rhetoric of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements for academic job application purposes: A step-driven rhetorical move study4
Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study4
Assessing the language needs of L2 English student pilots preparing for flight training in English-speaking countries4
Book Review4
Book Review4
Identity construction in corporate leaders’ messages: A corpus-based cross-linguacultural study of self-mention3
AI-mediated genre learning in the business English class3
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines3
Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class3
The relationship between syntactic complexity and rhetorical stages in L2 learners’ texts: A comparative analysis3
A core meaning-based analysis of English semi-technical vocabulary in the medical field3
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis3
Book Review3
Examining promotional strategies and trends in successful grant application abstracts: Moves and appraisal resources3
Intertextuality in business emails: An ESP Practitioner’s commentary on Warren’s research on intertextuality3
How epidemiologists exploit the emerging genres of twitter for public engagement3
“This study is an attempt to”: Metadiscursive nouns in L1 and L2 Applied Linguistics research article abstracts3
Words that matter: A cross-disciplinary investigation of importance markers in 3MT presentations3
A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals3
One size doesn't fit all: Exploring student expectations and disciplinary voices in ESP in Estonia3
The challenges of radiotelephony communication and effective training approaches: A study of Korean pilots and air traffic controllers3
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