OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse Processes 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals	25
An action-specific examination of the role of answerers’ gaze orientation in managing transition relevance	24
Emotional shifts, event-congruent emotions, and transportation in narrative persuasion	18
Superman Takes a Taxi: Testing Theories of Validation with Inconsistencies in Fantastic Narratives	17
Impact of prior knowledge and presentation on the place-on-the-page effect	15
Topicality and attention in pronoun interpretation: the role of accessibility and predictability	13
Whom to believe? Fostering source evaluation skills with interleaved presentation of untrustworthy and trustworthy social media sources	13
Engagement with narrative characters: the role of social-cognitive abilities and linguistic viewpoint	11
Does the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) as a special form of gender-fair language impair comprehensibility?	10
Sarcasm Across Time and Space: Patterns of Usage by Age, Gender, and Region in the United States	10
Watch Out: Fake! How Warning Labels Affect Laypeople’s Evaluation of Simplified Scientific Misinformation	10
Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs	9
Is viewing a painting like reading a story?: Trans-symbolic comprehension processes and aesthetic responses across two media	9
Bilingual Discourse Comprehension: The Role of Language Overlap in Updating the Discourse Representation	9
Processes and products of readers’ journeys to narrative worlds	9
Please Join Me/Us/Them on My/Our/Their Journey to Justice in STEM	9
An Analysis of the Linguistic Features of Popular Chinese Online Fantasy Novels	9
Commentary on the special issue: new approaches to figurative language research	7
Topic realization in narratives elicited under cognitive load	7
Contributions of reading self-concept, intrinsic motivation, and reading value to sixth graders’ purposeful reading: the mediating role of the task model	7
Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics	6
Letter from the Co-Editors	6
Not taking “no” for an answer: the interactional organization of accepting and refusing childhood vaccination in the Netherlands	6
Introduction to the special issue	6
Construction–Integration and the Structure Building Framework: Twin siblings born of different parents	6

Representing and remembering text paraphrases: a phantom recollection analysis	6
The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from the United Kingdom and China	6
Demo “but”-prefaced responses to inquiry in Japanese	6
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	5
Lexical and perceptual biases in speakers’ syntactic choices	5
The fluency vs. disfluency dichotomy in writing processes as reflected in the structure of the inter-key intervals empirical distribution	5
The role of short-term memory in discourse comprehension: some reflections on the impact of Kintsch and van Dijk (1978)	5
Context models and the pragmatics of discourse	5
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities	5
Measuring Comprehension Monitoring with the Inconsistency Task in Adolescents: Stability, Associations with Reading Comprehension Skills, and Differences Between Grade Levels	5
Reading perspectives moderate text-belief consistency effects in eye movements and comprehension	4
Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research	4
Role of advanced theory of mind in teenagers’ evaluation of source information	4
When hedging helps, rather than impedes, communication: collaboration in the referential communication task	4
The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children	4
Introduction: special issue in honor of Walter Kintsch	4
The impact of interword spacing on inference processing during text reading: Evidence from eye movements	4
Comprehension: from clause to conspiracy narrative	4
Narrative Experience Taxonomy: expanding think-aloud analysis for narrative experiences	4
Processing appositive relative clauses: Effects of information structure and sentence structure	4