English for Specific Purposes

Papers
(The TQCC of English for Specific Purposes is 8. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board57
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas49
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines45
Book Review39
Editorial Board35
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews33
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies30
Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study29
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation29
Development and validation of the Professional English Proficiency Perception (PEPP) scale27
Book Review25
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals25
English language needs of Iranian students of civil engineering: Are the courses aligned with workplace needs?25
Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study23
When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses23
Cross-sectional distribution of authorial presence in medicine research articles: A corpus-based study of self-mentions21
Exploiting hypothetical reported speech in the business English classroom21
Citation content in literature review sections of research articles: A cross-paradigm comparison of design science and interpretivist research in information systems21
Science dissemination videos as multimodal supporting resources for ESP teaching in higher education20
Editorial Board19
Guiding and engaging the audience: Visual metadiscourse in PowerPoint slides of Three Minute Thesis presentations19
Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter: An analysis of stance and engagement18
Mining emotions in academic writing: A subdisciplinary probe into medical research articles18
“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca17
The rhetorical legacy of John Swales: Metadiscourse, style, and the construction of an EAP community17
Editorial Board17
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation16
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary16
Multimodal approach to translanguaging practices: From translanguaging to trans-semiotising in an EMI business course15
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing15
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication15
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?14
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 practice14
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]14
Cross-disciplinary variation in exemplification: A local grammar analysis of biology and applied linguistics research articles13
Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria13
Metadiscoursal adjectives in novice academic writing13
Explaining science to the non-specialist online audience: A multimodal genre analysis of TED talk videos12
The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals12
Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre12
Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF11
Editorial Board11
Cohesion in the discussion section of research articles: A cross-disciplinary investigation11
Editorial Board11
Adopting a ‘move’ rather than a ‘marker’ approach to metadiscourse: A taxonomy for spoken student presentations10
Mapping 100-year trajectories: Research article titles in four top general medical journals10
Stance taking through that-clauses in research article abstracts: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices in translated and non-translated English10
Book review10
The genre of PechaKucha presentations: Analysis and implications for enhancing multimodal literacy at university9
Book Review9
Book Review9
Book Review9
Writing beyond the academy: Towards tasks that promote genre knowledge and transfer across contexts9
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)9
The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students9
Multimodal genre analysis of video abstracts: Exploring rhetorical structure, hybridization, and innovation8
Participation in global business meetings revisited8
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom8
Book Review8
Book Review8
Exploring the significance of English-based communication for a community of medical academics in a public university teaching hospital in Algeria8
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