OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of English for Specific Purposes is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	47
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas	34
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews	33
Editorial Board	33
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing	24
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines	23
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies	22
Book Review	22
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation	21
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?	20
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	19
Editorial Board	17
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study	16
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	15
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom	15
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems	14
Technical single and multiword unit vocabulary in spoken rugby discourse	14
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education	14
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement	14
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca	13
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles	13
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary	12
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations	12
Editorial Board	12

Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation	11
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria	11
A case study of the variety of writing assignments in an undergraduate English department	11
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing	11
Writer and reader visibility in humanities research articles: Variation across language, regional variety and discipline	11
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication	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
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
The acquisition of formulaic sequences in EFL email writing	10
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos	10
The role of English language in the field of agriculture: A needs analysis	10
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
The place of language in the theoretical tenets, textbooks, and classroom practices in the ESP genre-based approach to teaching writing	10
Editorial Board	9
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations	9
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals	9
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF	9
Editorial Board	9
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university	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
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria	7
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students	7
Book Review	7
Book Review	7
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation	7
Participation in global business meetings revisited	7
Facilitating undergraduate novice L2 writers’ pathways toward criticality enactment in genre-based literature review writing instruction	7
‘The study has clear limitations’: Presentation of limitations in conclusion sections of PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics	7
Book Review	7
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom	7