OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of English World-Wide 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Treebanks and World Englishes	30
Editors’ note	11
Give, take, and make light verb constructions in mesolectal Malaysian English	10
Participle-for-preterite variation in Tyneside English	9
He come out and give me a beer but he never seen the bear	8
Review of Schröder (2021): The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an Emerging Variety	6
Nigerian English as a Lingua Franca	6
English intonation in storytelling	5
Expressing gratitude in Nigerian English	4
Editors’ note	4
The search for linguistically coherent accents	4
The YouTube corpus of Singapore English podcasts	3
Editors’ note	3
Review of Schröter (2019): Null Subjects in Englishes: A Comparison of British English and Asian Englishes	3
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Produced and perceived authenticity in the Northern Irish TV showDerry Girls	3
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Prejudice towards regional accents of Philippine English	3
Say Gesundheit to the Bagel-eating Paparazzi	3
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Maidin Cornwall	2
Intensifying and downtoning in South Asian Englishes	2
As if, as though, and like in Canadian English	2
Review of Hickey (2014): A Dictionary of Varieties of English	2
Review of Mailhammer (2021): English on Croker Island: The Synchronic and Diachronic Dynamics of Contact and Variation	2

Review of Siemund (2023): Multilingual Development. English in a Global Context	2
Immigrants’ attitudes towards varieties of American English	2
Necessity modal development in Singapore English	1
Primary-stress placement in Nigerian L1 English	1
Editors and world Englishes	1
Grammatical variation in World Englishes	1
Review of Wilson & Westphal (2023): New Englishes, New Methods	1
Revisiting the aspectual BUSY in (South African) English	1
Review of Bolton, Botha & Kirkpatrick (2020): The Handbook of Asian Englishes	1
The role of linguistic structure in the perceptions of vernacular speech	1
Dealing with trouble in conversation in English-speaking cultures	1
The trappings of order	1
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Obituary	1
Review of Neumaier (2023): Conversation in World Englishes: Turn-Taking and Cultural Variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English	1
Review of Buregeya (2019): Kenyan English	0
From quacker to quokka	0
Into-causatives in World Englishes	0
Rethinking Maltese English as a continuum of sociolinguistic continua through evaluations of written and oral prompts	0
Teachers’ attitudes towards varieties of Hong Kong English	0
Afrikaans English as a Southern Hemisphere English	0
Regional variation in British English voice quality	0
Review of Steigertahl (2019): Englishes in Post-Independence Namibia. An Investigation of Variety Status and its Implications for English Language Teaching	0
Review of Sadeghpour & Sharifian (2021): Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes	0
Editors’ note	0
50 years of British accent bias	0
Code-switching in South Asian English CMC	0
Stability and change in (ing)	0
Review of Mühleisen (2022): Genre in World Englishes: Case Studies from the Caribbean	0
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A new majority	0
Theget-passive in Tyneside English	0
Durational variation across inner/outer/expanding circle varieties of English	0
How real has the long-anticipated fast-growing influence of American English on Kenyan English been?	0
Broadening horizons in the diachronic and sociolinguistic study of Philippine English with the Twitter Corpus of Philippine Englishes (TCOPE)	0
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Implicit language attitudes among young, white, L1-Afrikaans speakers towards two South African Englishes	0
Vowel variation in a segregated and isolated religious community	0
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Review of Buschfeld & Kautzsch (2021): Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-postcolonial Englishes	0
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How to obtain speaker numbers for English varieties around the world	0
Review of Klumm (2021): Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad: Variation and Patterns	0
Conventionalization and variation in computer-mediated communication	0
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Constrained communication in EFL and ESL	0
“He’s a lawyer you know and all of that”	0
The Spanish component of Falkland Islands English	0
Review of van Rooy (2024): World Englishes: The Local Lives of a Global Language	0
Exploring age-related changes in the realisation of (t)	0

Spanish-influenced lexical phenomena in emerging Miami English	0
How “U” are “U” words?	0
Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration	0
Phonetic variation of initial stop consonants in Malaysian English	0
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Soundin(g(k)) ethnic in Toronto	0
The ideological debate on Naijá and its use in education	0
Review of Kohn, Wolfram, Farrington, Renn & Van Hofwegen (2020): African American Language: Language Development from Infancy to Adulthood	0
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Review of Davydova (2019): Quotation in Indigenised and Learner English: A Sociolinguistic Account of Variation	0
Review of Honkanen (2020): World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA	0
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Swearing as a Leadership Tool	0
The ages of pragmatic particles in Colloquial Singapore English	0