OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of English for Specific Purposes is 2. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	48
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas	36
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation	34
Editorial Board	34
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews	24
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies	24
Book Review	23
Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study	22
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines	22
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing	20
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	19
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?	19
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom	17
Editorial Board	17
When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses	16
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study	15
Technical single and multiword unit vocabulary in spoken rugby discourse	15
A genre-based analysis of questions and comments in Q&A sessions after conference paper presentations in computer science	15
Academic lexical coverage in TED talks and academic lectures	14
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education	14
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems	14
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca	13
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement	13
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations	13
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles	13

A case study of the variety of writing assignments in an undergraduate English department	12
Editorial Board	12
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary	12
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation	11
The acquisition of formulaic sequences in EFL email writing	11
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication	11
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos	11
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing	11
Multimodal approach to translanguaging practices: From translanguaging to trans-semiotising in an EMI business course	11
Commentary on Chan's (2019) investigation of the communication needs of Hong Kong business professionals: Significance for the field of ESP and further implications for research and practice	11
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre	10
Corrigendum to “The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals” [English for Specific Purposes 79 (2025) 87–100]	10
Writer and reader visibility in humanities research articles: Variation across language, regional variety and discipline	10
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation	10
A practitioner’s commentary on Z. Zhang (2013) Business English students learning to write for international business: What do international business practitioners have to say about their texts?	10
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria	10
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF	10
The place of language in the theoretical tenets, textbooks, and classroom practices in the ESP genre-based approach to teaching writing	10
The role of English language in the field of agriculture: A needs analysis	10
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
Stance taking through that-clauses in research article abstracts: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices in translated and non-translated English	9
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	9
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students	8
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university	8
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations	8
Book Review	8
Book Review	8
A researcher's commentary on Stephen Evans' “Just wanna give you guys a bit of an update": Insider perspectives on business presentations in Hong Kong (2013)	8
Book review	8
Book Review	7
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom	7
Book Review	7
Participation in global business meetings revisited	7
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation	7
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria	7
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics	7
Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction	6
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited	6
A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong	6
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures	6
Editorial Board	6
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources	6
Interactional metadiscourse in expert and student disciplinary writing: Exploring intrageneric and functional variation	6
Editorial Board	6
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening	6
“In the past, we hear that a lot”: Features of and responses to tense and aspect in written Singaporean Academic English	6
Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles	5
Book Review	5
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team	5

A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond	5
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing: A diachronic corpus-based study on research articles in chemical engineering	5
Extending embodied cognition through robot's augmented reality in English for medical purposes classrooms	5
The development, evaluation and application of an aviation radiotelephony specialised technical vocabulary list	5
Developing an ESP workshop to promote handover practices in nursing communication: A case study of nurses in a bilingual hospital in Hong Kong	4
Artificial Intelligence for Academic Purposes (AIAP): Integrating AI literacy into an EAP module	4
Tracing interpersonal discursive features in Australian nursing bedside handovers: Approachability features, patient engagement and insights for ESP training and working with internationally trained n	4
Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL)	4
Constructing proximity in popularization discourse: Evidence from lexical bundles in TED talks	4
Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study	4
Towards LLM-assisted move annotation: Leveraging ChatGPT-4 to analyse the genre structure of CEO statements in corporate social responsibility reports	4
Book Review	4
But then something happened: A critical multimodal genre analysis of corporate image repair videos	4
Book Review	3
Learning to read patient notes in the workplace: How reading aloud and reading alongside can help students for whom English is an additional language	3
English verb-argument construction profiles in a specialized academic corpus: Variation by genre and discipline	3
Book Review	3
Editorial Board	3
Authorial stance in citations: Variation by writer expertise and research article part-genres	3
Assessing the language needs of L2 English student pilots preparing for flight training in English-speaking countries	3
Unpacking the rhetoric of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements for academic job application purposes: A step-driven rhetorical move study	3
Metadiscourse in English instruction manuals	3
Book Review	3
Book Review	3
Proscribed informality features in published research: A corpus analysis	3
Book Review	3
Identity construction in corporate leaders’ messages: A corpus-based cross-linguacultural study of self-mention	2
Editorial Board	2
Integrating social justice-oriented content into English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instruction: A case study	2
The relationship between syntactic complexity and rhetorical stages in L2 learners’ texts: A comparative analysis	2
The challenges of radiotelephony communication and effective training approaches: A study of Korean pilots and air traffic controllers	2
Becoming a member of the business community	2
Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class	2
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines	2
Tracing the development of English for Specific Purposes over four decades (1980–2019): A bibliometric analysis	2
Intertextuality in business emails: An ESP Practitioner’s commentary on Warren’s research on intertextuality	2
Examining promotional strategies and trends in successful grant application abstracts: Moves and appraisal resources	2
A corpus-based multi-dimensional analysis of the linguistic features of Aviation English	2
A study of language-related episodes in online English-medium instruction classes in high schools in South Korea	2
Words that matter: A cross-disciplinary investigation of importance markers in 3MT presentations	2
A rhetorical function and phraseological analysis of commentaries on visuals	2
Book Review	2
If it had been conducted with a larger database…: A comparison of If-constructions in Chinese L2 learners' theses and published research articles	2
A core meaning-based analysis of English semi-technical vocabulary in the medical field	2
How epidemiologists exploit the emerging genres of twitter for public engagement	2