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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Second Language Writing is 4. 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
Generative artificial intelligence and second language writing	105
Editorial	65
Past JSLW Editor Rosa M. Manchón speaks: Ilona Leki & Tony Silva’s invitation to co-edit the journal—my reflection	65
Expertise in L2 writing instruction: The road less travelled	49
Book Review	41
Generative AI: Same same but different?	38
Book review	37
Book review	36
Grammatical complexity: Insights from English for academic purposes teachers	36
Book Review	36
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	36
Is corrective feedback during telecollaboration beneficial? The effects of peer and teacher corrections on L2 writing proficiency	34
From the other side of the desk: Supervisors’ perceptions of supervisory feedback	33
Critical language awareness and English for Research Publication Purposes	32
Editorial Board	31
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	28
Introduction to the special issue: Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as a lens for looking backward, outward, and forward in Second Language Writing	26
The gold standard for the teaching profession: A rejoinder	26
Book review	24
Editorial Board	21
Editorial Board	20
AI or student writing? Analyzing the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing and AI-generated assignments	19
Revisiting the conceptualizations of feedback in second language writing: a metaphor analysis approach	18
Syntactic and lexical features of adolescent L2 students’ academic writing	18
Video and text feedback on ESL writing: Understanding attitude and negotiating relationships	18

CLA and WPA: A justice-oriented approach to writing program administration	18
Connecting source use and argumentation in L2 integrated argumentative writing performance	18
Language quality, content, structure: What analytic ratings tell us about EFL writing skills at upper secondary school level in Germany and Switzerland	15
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”	14
Book Review	14
Book review	14
Editorial Board	13
Book review	12
Getting a grip on the writing process: (Effective) approaches to write argumentative and narrative texts in L1 and L2	11
To grade is not to grade?: Exploring ungrading in the teaching of L2 writing	11
JSLW editorial for March 2025	11
Translanguaging with generative AI in EFL writing: Students’ practices and perceptions	11
Tunnel, teapot, mermaid, ghost: Creative-critical practice as critical language awareness	11
Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement	11
“It can be a very equalizing way to grade”: Contract grading and multilingual writers	11
Developing and evaluating an empirically-based diagnostic checklist for assessing second language integrated writing	10
Transpacific telecollaboration and L2 writing: Influences of interpersonal dynamics on peer feedback and revision uptake	10
An argument for globalized L2 writing methodological innovation	10
Elements of doctoral apprenticeship: Community feedback and the acquisition of writing expertise	10
The effects of working memory and L2 proficiency on L2 writing	10
Book review	9
Editorial Board	9
Book Review	8
Book review	8
The need for critical digital literacies in generative AI-mediated L2 writing	8
Editors introduction	7
Understanding the impact of teacher feedback on EFL students’ use of self-regulated writing strategies	7
Book Review	7
The effects of completing collaborative or independent writing on the development of language use in individual writing	7
Research trends in L2 written corrective feedback: A bibliometric analysis of three decades of Scopus-indexed research on L2 WCF	7
Second-language writing development of adult immigrants following three study paths reflecting their varying levels of prior education	6
Ungrading as an assessment philosophy: Reliability, validity, and practicality	6
Book review	6
A large-scale longitudinal study of syntactic complexity development in EFL writing: A mixed-effects model approach	6
Introduction to JSLW’s 30th anniversary special issue	5
Voices from L2 learners across different languages: Development and validation of a student writing assessment literacy scale	5
Developing L2 writing abilities through an instructional enrichment program informed by dynamic assessment	5
JSLW@30: The founders & past editors speak	5
The role of communicative purpose in describing and interpreting lexico-grammatical variation in L2 writing	5
Editorial Board	5
Book Review	5
Editorial Board	4
The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language	4
Writing in L2 Greek: Exploring the effect of L2 proficiency and learning context on complexity, accuracy, and fluency	4
Book Review	4
June 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	4
A measure of EFL argumentative writing cognitive load: Scale development and validation	4
Editorial Board	4
Critical language awareness through advocacy: Disrupting deficit discourse through simulation in L2 writing teacher education	4
Towards a reconciliatory approach to ungrading in writing classes: A response to Crusan	4

Editorial Board	4
The value of models to support students' voice in middle school social studies argument writing	4
Book review	4
The longitudinal development of second language writers’ metacognitive genre awareness	4
Book Review	4