English for Specific Purposes

Papers
(The TQCC of English for Specific Purposes is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board57
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas49
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines45
Book Review39
Editorial Board35
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews33
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies30
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation29
Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study29
Development and validation of the Professional English Proficiency Perception (PEPP) scale27
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals25
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?25
Book Review25
When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses23
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study23
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom21
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems21
Cross-sectional distribution of authorial presence in medicine research articles: A corpus-based study of self-mentions21
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education20
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations19
Editorial Board19
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles18
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement18
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca17
The rhetorical legacy of John Swales: Metadiscourse, style, and the construction of an EAP community17
Editorial Board17
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation16
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary16
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
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication15
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
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
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria13
Metadiscoursal adjectives in novice academic writing13
Cross-disciplinary variation in exemplification: A local grammar analysis of biology and applied linguistics research articles13
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals12
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre12
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos12
Editorial Board11
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation11
Editorial Board11
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF11
Mapping 100-year trajectories: Research article titles in four top general medical journals10
Stance taking through that-clauses in research article abstracts: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices in translated and non-translated English10
Book review10
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations10
Book Review9
Writing beyond the academy: Towards tasks that promote genre knowledge and transfer across contexts9
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 students9
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university9
Book Review9
Book Review9
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation8
Participation in global business meetings revisited8
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom8
Book Review8
Book Review8
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria8
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