OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Gesture is 0. 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.)

Article	Citations
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New and recent publications	9
Recent and forthcoming events	8
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Multimodality’s role in nano-scale niche construction	6
Demographic, neuropsychological, and speech variables that impact iconic and supplementary-to-speech gesturing in aphasia	5
Infants can create iconic gestures during natural interactions with caregivers	4
Weakest link or strongest link?	4
New and recent publications	3
The road to language through gesture	3
Co-speech gestures can interfere with learning foreign language words*	3
New and recent Publications	3
Join ISGS	2
Further information and weblinks	2
Recent and forthcoming events	1
Environmentally coupled depictive gestures in tea ceremony lessons	1
Join ISGS	1
Recent and forthcoming events	1
Coordinating and sharing gesture spaces in collaborative reasoning	1
Recent and forthcoming events	1
The Raised Index Finger gesture in Hebrew multimodal interaction	1
Do teachers adapt their gestures in linguistically heterogeneous second language teaching to learners’ language proficiencies?	0
Join ISGS	0
Recent and forthcoming events	0
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The development of speech and gesture in Sesotho narratives	0
Review of Galhano-Rodrigues, Galvão & Cruz-Santos (2019): Recent perspectives on gesture and multimodality	0
Further information and weblinks	0
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Higher empathy predicts more manual pointing in Tibetan people	0
Co-speech gesture provides a window onto intraindividual conflict during embodied sensemaking	0
New and recent publications	0
How is multimodality used in early communication?	0
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Evidence of Zipfian distributions in three sign languages	0
Further information and weblinks	0
Gesture restriction decreases the quality in simultaneous interpreting	0
Automatic tool to annotate smile intensities in conversational face-to-face interactions	0
Searching for the roots of signs in children’s early gestures	0
Different embodied motivations converge in a single recurrent gesture	0
Do speakers’ gestures affect listeners’ understanding of temporal relationships between events?	0
Do gestures reflect children’s lexical retrieval difficulties?	0
Recent and forthcoming events	0
Further information and weblinks	0
The silent order	0
Gestures are modulated by social context	0
Towards a novel conceptualization of prosody that accounts for spoken and visual signals	0
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Join ISGS	0
New and recent publications	0
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Obituary	0
Indexing turn-beginnings in Norwegian Sign Language conversation	0
Chimpanzees coordinate interrogative markers to ask questions	0
Review of Żywiczyński, Blomberg & Boruta-Żywiczyńska (2024): Perspectives on Pantomime	0
Review of Bressem (2021): Repetitions in Gesture: A Cognitive-Linguistic and Usage-Based Perspective	0
The beneficial effect and possible mechanisms of observing gestures in mental rotation training	0
On some functions of points during word searches for existing places in Mandarin conversations	0
Further information and weblinks	0
Task effects in Farsi-English bilinguals’ use of gestures	0
Review of Janzen & Shaffer (2023): Signed language and gesture research in cognitive linguistics	0
A recurring absence gesture in Northern Pastaza Kichwa	0
Beyond Foreigner Talk	0
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What counts as a relevant gesture in the study of multimodal event expressions?	0
Hand-y scaffolding:	0
New and recent publications	0
Managing co-presence with a wave of the hand	0
Charting the development of pointing	0
Understanding conditions leading to student gestures during fractions lessons	0
Arabic speakers gesture more than English speakers in a storytelling task	0
Review of Cienki (2024): The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies	0
Exploring the relation between gesture presentation perspective and children’s spatial performance	0
Review of Pennisi (2025): Gazes, Words, and Silences in Pragmatics	0

Gesture in contexts of verbal negation in Chinese	0
Pinkie first	0
Join ISGS	0
Further information and weblinks	0
Iconic gestures serve as primes for both auditory and visual word forms	0
Join ISGS	0