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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review	44
Editorial Board	32
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation	27
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines	27
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies	24
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas	24
Editorial Board	24
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews	22
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing	21
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?	20
Applying local grammars to the diachronic investigation of discourse acts in academic writing: The case of exemplification in Linguistics research articles	20
Academic vocabulary in an EAP course: Opportunities for incidental learning from printed teaching materials developed in-house	19
Editorial Board	19
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems	18
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom	18
Exploring the socio-contextual nature of workplace writing: Towards preparing learners for the complexities of English L2 writing in the workplace	18
Technical single and multiword unit vocabulary in spoken rugby discourse	17
A genre-based analysis of questions and comments in Q&A sessions after conference paper presentations in computer science	16
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education	14
Academic lexical coverage in TED talks and academic lectures	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	13
Theme choice in oral case presentations: Differences between medical novices and experts	13
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication	12

Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement	12
Aligning perceptions with reality: Lebanese EMI instructor perceptions of students’ writing proficiency	12
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary	11
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	10
The place of language in the theoretical tenets, textbooks, and classroom practices in the ESP genre-based approach to teaching writing	10
Editorial Board	10
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation	10
Book Review	10
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	10
The role of English language in the field of agriculture: A needs analysis	9
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?	9
Writer and reader visibility in humanities research articles: Variation across language, regional variety and discipline	9
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria	9
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos	9
Book Review	9
The acquisition of formulaic sequences in EFL email writing	8
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations	8
Editorial Board	8
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation	8
Book Review	8
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre	8
Editorial Board	8
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF	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)	7
Book Review	7
The project SubESPSKills: Subtitling tasks for students of Business English to improve written production skills	7
Book review	7
Book Review	7
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university	7
Participation in global business meetings revisited	6
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics	6
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures	6
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom	6
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation	6
Book Review	6
Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction	6
Editorial Board	6
Book Review	6
Book Review	6
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria	6
Editorial Board	6
Interactional metadiscourse in expert and student disciplinary writing: Exploring intrageneric and functional variation	5
“In the past, we hear that a lot”: Features of and responses to tense and aspect in written Singaporean Academic English	5
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening	5
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources	5
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited	5
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team	5
The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list	4
A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond	4

Selling research in RA discussion sections through English and Spanish: An intercultural rhetoric approach	4
Extending embodied cognition through robot's augmented reality in English for medical purposes classrooms	4
Book Review	4
Book Review	3
Tracing interpersonal discursive features in Australian nursing bedside handovers: Approachability features, patient engagement and insights for ESP training and working with internationally trained n	3
Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL)	3
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles	3
Artificial Intelligence for Academic Purposes (AIAP): Integrating AI literacy into an EAP module	3
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres	3
But then something happened: A critical multimodal genre analysis of corporate image repair videos	3
Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks	3
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering	3
Towards LLM-assisted move annotation: Leveraging ChatGPT-4 to analyse the genre structure of CEO statements in corporate social responsibility reports	3
Learning to read patient notes in the workplace: How reading aloud and reading alongside can help students for whom English is an additional language	3
Developing an ESP workshop to promote handover practices in nursing communication: A case study of nurses in a bilingual hospital in Hong Kong	3
English verb-argument construction profiles in a specialized academic corpus: Variation by genre and discipline	2
Book Review	2
Engaging with the reader in research articles in English: Variation across disciplines and linguacultural backgrounds	2
Book Review	2
Book Review	2
Unpacking the rhetoric of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements for academic job application purposes: A step-driven rhetorical move study	2
Metadiscourse in English instruction manuals	2
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis	2
Assessing the language needs of L2 English student pilots preparing for flight training in English-speaking countries	2
Proscribed informality features in published research: A corpus analysis	2
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines	2
Editorial Board	2
Book Review	2
Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study	2