OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse Processes is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	21
Emotional shifts, event-congruent emotions, and transportation in narrative persuasion	19
Topicality and attention in pronoun interpretation: the role of accessibility and predictability	16
Superman Takes a Taxi: Testing Theories of Validation with Inconsistencies in Fantastic Narratives	15
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?	12
Impact of prior knowledge and presentation on the place-on-the-page effect	10
Whom to believe? Fostering source evaluation skills with interleaved presentation of untrustworthy and trustworthy social media sources	10
Is viewing a painting like reading a story?: Trans-symbolic comprehension processes and aesthetic responses across two media	10
Please Join Me/Us/Them on My/Our/Their Journey to Justice in STEM	9
Sarcasm Across Time and Space: Patterns of Usage by Age, Gender, and Region in the United States	9
Watch Out: Fake! How Warning Labels Affect Laypeople’s Evaluation of Simplified Scientific Misinformation	9
Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs	9
Topic realization in narratives elicited under cognitive load	9
Bilingual Discourse Comprehension: The Role of Language Overlap in Updating the Discourse Representation	9
Commentary on the special issue: new approaches to figurative language research	8
An Analysis of the Linguistic Features of Popular Chinese Online Fantasy Novels	8
Contributions of reading self-concept, intrinsic motivation, and reading value to sixth graders’ purposeful reading: the mediating role of the task model	8
The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from the United Kingdom and China	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
Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics	6
Demo “but”-prefaced responses to inquiry in Japanese	5
Letter from the Co-Editors	5

Construction–Integration and the Structure Building Framework: Twin siblings born of different parents	5
The role of processing foregrounding in empathic reactions in literary reading	5
Introduction to the special issue	5
Representing and remembering text paraphrases: a phantom recollection analysis	5
Lexical and perceptual biases in speakers’ syntactic choices	5
Context models and the pragmatics of discourse	5
Text analysis approach to measuring text social information in children’s picture books	4
The impact of interword spacing on inference processing during text reading: Evidence from eye movements	4
Introduction: special issue in honor of Walter Kintsch	4
The role of short-term memory in discourse comprehension: some reflections on the impact of Kintsch and van Dijk (1978)	4
The fluency vs. disfluency dichotomy in writing processes as reflected in the structure of the inter-key intervals empirical distribution	4
Role of advanced theory of mind in teenagers’ evaluation of source information	4
A Paradigm for the missing middle	4
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities	4
When hedging helps, rather than impedes, communication: collaboration in the referential communication task	4
Processing appositive relative clauses: Effects of information structure and sentence structure	4
Measuring Comprehension Monitoring with the Inconsistency Task in Adolescents: Stability, Associations with Reading Comprehension Skills, and Differences Between Grade Levels	4
The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children	3
Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research	3
Teachers’ gestures for building listening and spoken language skills	3
Reading perspectives moderate text-belief consistency effects in eye movements and comprehension	3
Inference making and learning from text via embodied situation models: extending Kintsch’s legacy	3
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue	3
Exploring inferences across media: an application of Kintsch’s framework of inference processes	3
Comprehension: from clause to conspiracy narrative	3
The role of relevance determinations in multiple text reading and writing: an investigation of the MD-TRACE	3