OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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“I’ll be there for you”: affective production of a “hyper-real” cultural-consumption space	16
Framing variation and intersectional identities within Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese minority	10
The role of the insider translator in conservation and development: comparing multilingual (auto)ethnobotanical books from Tanzania, Thailand, and Taiwan	10
New citizenship and the negotiation of the global/local interface: reflexivity, emotions, and metapragmatics	10
Identity and heritage language learning: a case study of two mixed-heritage Korean university students in New Zealand	9
What is a dialect? What is a standard?: shifting indexicality and persistent ideological norms	9
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“You are Apple, why are you speaking to me in Turkish?”: the role of English in voice assistant interactions	8
“Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English	7
Family language policy and dialect-Italian dynamics: across the waves of Italo-Australian migrant families	7
Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: a positive case study	7
Introduction to the special issue on translanguaging in the age of mobility	6
“It’s like the root of a tree that I grew up from….”: parents’ linguistic identity shaping family language policy in isolated circumstances	6
Children’s use of English as lingua franca in Swedish preschools	6
Monolingual disobedience, multilingual guilt?: an autoethnographic exploration of heritage language maintenance during COVID-19 lockdowns	5
Language management in semi-peripheral game production: how foreign workers in Czech video game studios experience the use of English, Czech, and other Slavic languages	5
Reflecting on past language brokering experiences: how they affected children’s and teenagers’ emotions and relationships	5
Investigating language and inequality in a seemingly equal educational context	5
Philanthrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women in the Global South	5
Parental involvement in online education during Covid-19 lockdown: a netnographic case study of Chinese language teaching in the UK	5
Hesitant versus confident family language policy: a case of two single-parent families in Finland	5
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Adrift between republican values and plurilingual policies: (pre)primary school teachers’ reported practiced language policies in Strasbourg	5
Co-constructing meaning through semi-understanding: conducting the sociolinguistic interview in an (un)known language	4

Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press	4
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Shorter but richer versus longer with less information: linguistic differentiation between British Sign Language and sign supported English	4
“A new worker, for a new order, in a new era”: English, power and shifting ideologies of reflexivity in a Chinese global workplace	4
Code-switching as linguistic microaggression: L2-Japanese and speaker legitimacy	3
Phonetic loan, graphic borrowing, and script-mixing: key to the vitality of written Cantonese in Hong Kong	3
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The economics of Japanese: investigating the demand for Japanese language skills in the Pearl River Delta labor market	3
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Language ideologies of Greeks in Catalonia: hints of the mirror effect	3
The topicalization of culture in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews	3
Sharing communicative responsibility: training US students in cooperative strategies for communicating across linguistic difference	3