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 2022-05-01 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
Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study26
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
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals24
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?21
When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses21
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study20
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education19
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom19
Editorial Board18
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca18
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
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
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
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
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
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
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria13
Editorial Board12
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals11
Editorial Board11
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre11
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
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
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
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
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
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
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