OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Assessing Writing is 9. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of prior educational contexts on directed self-placement of L2 writers	395
The design and cognitive validity verification of reading-to-write tasks in L2 Chinese writing assessment	345
How feedback conditions broaden or constrain knowledge and perceptions about improvement in L2 writing: A 12-week exploratory study	136
Book review	121
The relationship between executive functions, source use, and integrated writing performance	83
Effects of a genre and topic knowledge activation device on a standardized writing test performance	50
Book review	50
Editorial Introduction – AI, corpora, and future directions for writing assessment	46
Diversity of Advanced Sentence Structures (DASS) in writing predicts argumentative writing quality and receptive academic language skills of fifth-to-eighth grade students	43
Modeling relationships among large-grained, fine-grained absolute syntactic complexity and assessed L2 writing quality: An SEM approach	43
The effects of online resource use on L2 learners’ computer-mediated writing processes and written products	35
Dependency distance measures in assessing L2 writing proficiency	35
Investigating the dimensions and determinants of children’s narrative writing in Korean	34
Exploring new insights into the role of cohesive devices in written academic genres	34
Investigating a customized generative AI chatbot for automated essay scoring in a disciplinary writing task	29
The trajectory of syntactic complexity development in L1 Chinese narrative writings of primary school children: A systematic 5-year longitudinal study	29
The effect of metacognitive instruction with indirect written corrective feedback on secondary students’ engagement and functional adequacy in L2 writing	28
Editorial	28
A comparative study of voice in Chinese English-major undergraduates’ timed and untimed argument writing	26
Comparing Chinese L2 writing performance in paper-based and computer-based modes: Perspectives from the writing product and process	25
Editorial	25
Book review	25
Using Peerceptiv to support AI-based online writing assessment across the disciplines	23
Examining EFL learners’ quantity and quality of uptake of teacher corrective feedback on writing across three different editing settings	23
Linguistic factors affecting L1 language evaluation in argumentative essays of students aged 16 to 18 attending secondary education in Greece	22

Editorial Board	22
The persuasive essays for rating, selecting, and understanding argumentative and discourse elements (PERSUADE) corpus 1.0	22
Using ChatGPT for second language writing: Pitfalls and potentials	22
Assessing writing in fourth grade: Rhetorical specification effects on text quality	22
Exploring the effects of task difficulty and learner variables on performance on picture description writing tasks	22
Book review	21
Using unfolding models to identify targeted feedback strategies for student writing	21
Exploring Chinese EFL undergraduates’ writing from sources: Self-efficacy and performance	20
Effects of peer feedback in English writing classes on EFL students’ writing feedback literacy	19
How syntactic complexity indices predict Chinese L2 writing quality: An analysis of unified dependency syntactically-annotated corpus	19
Construct representation and predictive validity of integrated writing tasks: A study on the writing component of the Duolingo English Test	18
Writing productivity development in elementary school: A systematic review	18
Editorial	18
Book review	18
Editorial - vol 55 Jan 2023	17
Improving writing feedback quality and self-efficacy of pre-service teachers in Gen-AI contexts: An experimental mixed-method design	17
Verb-centric or balanced?: An NLP-based assessment of word class contributions to L2 writing proficiency	16
Connecting form with function: Model texts for bilingual learners’ narrative writing	16
Cognitive validity evidence of computer- and paper-based writing tests and differences in the impact on EFL test-takers in classroom assessment	16
Reading, receiving, revising: A case study on the relationship between peer review and revision in writing-to-learn	16
Examining the use of academic vocabulary in first-year ESL undergraduates’ writing: A corpus-driven study in Hong Kong	15
Effects of writing feedback literacies on feedback engagement and writing performance: A cross-linguistic perspective	15
Modeling the interplay between teacher support, anxiety and grit in predicting feedback-seeking behavior in L2 writing	15
Incremental Intelligence Matters: How L2 Writing Mindsets Impact Feedback Orientation and Self-Regulated Learning Writing Strategies	14
Examining teacher’s evaluative language in written, audio and screencast feedback on EFL learners’ writing from the appraisal framework: A linguistic perspective	14
Connecting L2 reading emotions and writing performance through imaginative capacity in the story continuation writing task: A gender difference perspective	14
Unpacking the contribution of linguistic features to graph writing quality: An analytic scoring approach	14
Towards a better understanding of integrated writing performance: The influence of literacy strategy use and independent language skills	13
Profiling support in literacy development: Use of natural language processing to identify learning needs in higher education	13
Corrigendum to “Assessing metacognition-based student feedback literacy for academic writing” [Assessing Writing 59 (2024) 100811]	13
Assessing pragmatic performance in advanced L2 academic writing through the lens of local grammars: A case study of ‘exemplification’	12
Editorial Volume 54	12
Assessing Korean writing ability through a scenario-based assessment approach	12
Editorial	12
Do I need feedback or avoid it in L2 writing? Impacts of self-efficacy and shyness on feedback-seeking behavior	12
Book review	12
Editorial Board	11
Generative artificial intelligence for automated essay scoring: Exploring teacher agency through an ecological perspective	11
Fostering student engagement with feedback: An integrated approach	11
Comparing trained EFL peer reviewers’ feedback: From claim to reality	11
The development and validation of a scale on L2 writing teacher feedback literacy	11
Investigating whether a flemma count is a more distinctive measurement of lexical diversity	11
Developing and validating an analytic rating scale for a paraphrase task	11
Student engagement with peer feedback in L2 writing: Insights from reflective journaling and revising practices	10
Beyond the page: A multimodal self-efficacy framework for assessing L2 digital-academic writing	10
A structural equation investigation of linguistic features as indices of writing quality in assessed secondary-level EMI learners’ scientific reports	10
The influence of working memory and proficiency on phraseological growth: A longitudinal study of adjective-noun combinations in Chinese EFL learners’ argumentative writing	10
A meta-analysis of relationships between syntactic features and writing performance and how the relationships vary by student characteristics and measurement features	10
The mediating role of curriculum configuration on teacher’s L2 writing assessment literacy and practices in embedded French writing	10
Lexical richness in young English learners’ writing: A focus on opinion and listen-write task types	10

Book review	9
Composition Organization and Development Analysis (CODA) Scale: Equipping high school students to evaluate argumentative essays	9
Linguistic predictors of L2 writing performance: Variations across genres	9
Exploring the use of model texts as a feedback instrument in expository writing: EFL learners’ noticing, incorporations, and text quality	9
Validity evidences for scoring procedures of a writing assessment task. A case study on consistency, reliability, unidimensionality and prediction accuracy	9
Exploring the development of noun phrase complexity in L2 English writings across two genres	9