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Papers

(The median citation count of Discourse Processes is 1. 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
An action-specific examination of the role of answerers’ gaze orientation in managing transition relevance	34
Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals	16
Emotional shifts, event-congruent emotions, and transportation in narrative persuasion	14
Impact of prior knowledge and presentation on the place-on-the-page effect	13
Structural processing of visual narratives in autism	13
Topicality and attention in pronoun interpretation: the role of accessibility and predictability	13
Filled pauses engage attention but, uh, do not seem to affect structural processing	12
Whom to believe? Fostering source evaluation skills with interleaved presentation of untrustworthy and trustworthy social media sources	12
Engagement with narrative characters: the role of social-cognitive abilities and linguistic viewpoint	12
Does the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) as a special form of gender-fair language impair comprehensibility?	11
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults	11
Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs	10
Is viewing a painting like reading a story?: Trans-symbolic comprehension processes and aesthetic responses across two media	10
Fantasy-based violations of real-world knowledge: when witches can and cannot fly on broomsticks	10
Sarcasm Across Time and Space: Patterns of Usage by Age, Gender, and Region in the United States	9
Observations of relational reasoning and strategic processing in an interdisciplinary team	9
The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from the United Kingdom and China	8
Commentary on the special issue: new approaches to figurative language research	8
Contributions of reading self-concept, intrinsic motivation, and reading value to sixth graders’ purposeful reading: the mediating role of the task model	7
Topic realization in narratives elicited under cognitive load	7
Not taking “no” for an answer: the interactional organization of accepting and refusing childhood vaccination in the Netherlands	7
Processes and products of readers’ journeys to narrative worlds	7
Representing and remembering text paraphrases: a phantom recollection analysis	6
Construction–Integration and the Structure Building Framework: Twin siblings born of different parents	6
Introduction to the special issue	6

Lexical and perceptual biases in speakers’ syntactic choices	6
The role of prosody in facilitating memory for discourse information in Mandarin Chinese: evidence from a delayed recall task	6
Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics	6
Letter from the Co-Editors	6
Context models and the pragmatics of discourse	5
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities	5
Demo “but”-prefaced responses to inquiry in Japanese	5
The role of short-term memory in discourse comprehension: some reflections on the impact of Kintsch and van Dijk (1978)	5
The role of processing foregrounding in empathic reactions in literary reading	5
Text analysis approach to measuring text social information in children’s picture books	5
A Paradigm for the missing middle	4
The fluency vs. disfluency dichotomy in writing processes as reflected in the structure of the inter-key intervals empirical distribution	4
Processing appositive relative clauses: Effects of information structure and sentence structure	4
Narrative Experience Taxonomy: expanding think-aloud analysis for narrative experiences	4
Role of advanced theory of mind in teenagers’ evaluation of source information	4
Persuasion versus deliberation: discourse patterns in children’s argumentative dialogues	4
Introduction: special issue in honor of Walter Kintsch	4
When hedging helps, rather than impedes, communication: collaboration in the referential communication task	4
Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research	3
The impact of interword spacing on inference processing during text reading: Evidence from eye movements	3
Cognitive processing of anaphoric encapsulation and coreference in native Spanish speakers: an experimental approach with eye tracking	3
Reading perspectives moderate text-belief consistency effects in eye movements and comprehension	3
Mental representation derived from path descriptions: can natural-based landmarks make a difference?	3
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue	3
Two types of abductive causal reasoning in discourse processing: evidence from eye tracking during reading	3
The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children	3
Exploring inferences across media: an application of Kintsch’s framework of inference processes	3
Inference making and learning from text via embodied situation models: extending Kintsch’s legacy	3
Constructed responses as a window into strategic processing: the role of prompts in multiple-document reading	2
Do metaphors make abstract concepts more concrete?	2
Correction	2
Syntactic subordination affects discourse accessibility and subjective propositional importance: evidence from Russian	2
Anchoring your bridge: the importance of paraphrasing to inference making in self-explanations	2
The role of relevance determinations in multiple text reading and writing: an investigation of the MD-TRACE	2
Self-efficacy in online credibility evaluation: examining grade-level differences	2
Revolutions in the emergence of discourse processes research	2
Pointing at others as an embodied connection device: linking back to prior talk in multi-party interaction	2
Transformer models as predication machines	2
Epistemicity and communicative strategies	2
How literary text reading is influenced by narrative voice and focalization: evidence from eye movements	2
Politeness and the communication of uncertainty when breaking bad news	2
Effects of textual constraint and emojis on emotion inferences for text message senders	2
BA and object state changes: Unspecific morphosyntactic cues shape Mandarin discourse comprehension	2
N400 event-related potential indices of induced mood effects on access to category-based world knowledge in central and lateralized visual fields	2
In memoriam, Russell Schenck Tomlin (1951–2022)	2
Walter Kintsch: grace and gravitas	2
Correction	2
Importance of Learner Characteristics in Intelligent Tutoring for Adult Literacy	2
Vocabulary size and exposure to print predict mastery of connectives in teenage years	2
Teachers’ gestures for building listening and spoken language skills	2

Comprehension: from clause to conspiracy narrative	2
Neuroscience as a window into discourse processing: the influence of Walter Kintsch	2
Walter Kintsch: legacy and legend	1
Sounding others’ sensations in interaction	1
Non-gendered pronoun processing: an investigation of the gender non-specific third person singular pronoun ‘TA’ in Chinese	1
Cognitive flexibility moderates shifts in plausibility judgments of claims about climate change	1
The implicit guides to convincingness intuitions: how emotional valence, emotional arousal, and processing fluency relate to perceived and actual convincingness	1
Promoting multiple-text comprehension through thinking dispositions: a randomized controlled trial	1
A history of psychology as it happened to me	1
Beyond initial misanalysis: the disruptive nature of garden-path sentences processing	1
The effects of visuospatial working memory on older adults’ bridging inference processing in visual narrative comprehension	1
Idiom meaning selection following a prior context: eye movement evidence of L1 direct retrieval and L2 compositional assembly	1
Eye-tracking evidence from attachment structures favors a serial model of discourse–sentence interactivity	1
Gendered Representations of Person Referents Activated by the Nonbinary Gender Star in German: A Word-Picture Matching Task	1
The contributions of Walter Kintsch: Cascading cognitive science	1
Unveiling the dynamics of discourse production in healthy aging and its connection to cognitive skills	1
Reflections on Roy O. Freedle	1
Assessing individual competence in argumentation	1
Comprehension of explicit and implicit information in prereaders: the role of maternal education, receptive vocabulary, executive functions, and theory of mind	1
Disentangling local versus global processing dispositions in autistic cognition using item response theory models: comparing multimodal comics versus text-based narratives in a randomized study	1
Discourse Processes Adopts the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines	1
Introduction to special issue	1
Remembering Walter Kintsch: translating theory and vision to practice	1
Retraction statement- HDSP/ Blumenthal-Dramé Article	1
Why does recency guide pronoun comprehension? It’s not just topicality, attention, or predictability	1
Selective View of the Last 50 Years of the Experimental Psycholinguistics of Idiom, Metaphor, and Irony: A Commentary	1
Working memory capacity as a predictor of multiple text comprehension	1
Testing the independent effects of refutations and summaries on understanding	1
Correction	1
The Role of pre-reading task instructions in reading comprehension: a systematic review	1
Promoting understanding in digital contexts: using the construction-integration model as a framework for educational technology design and assessment	1
Children’s understanding of referential nominal metaphors: a path to the heart of text comprehension	1
Novel metaphor processing in dyslexia: a visual world eye-tracking study	1
Events shape long-term memory for story information	1