OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of English for Specific Purposes is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
TED-Ed animations as resources for learning academic formulas	34
Editorial Board	32
Graphical abstracts’ pedagogical implications: Skills & challenges in visual remediation	25
Understanding news & views articles: Rhetorical structures across different disciplines	24
Interactional metadiscourse in expert and student disciplinary writing: Exploring intrageneric and functional variation	23
Book Review	22
Hypothetical reported speech in business negotiations: A researcher commentary	20
Editorial Board	20
Strengthening the interface between research and pedagogy in business English and beyond	19
A practitioner's commentary on C. Chan (2019): Long-term workplace communication needs of business professionals	19
Editorial Board	18
Book Review	17
A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews	16
Book review	16
The rhetoric of negation in research articles: A cross-disciplinary analysis of appraisal resources	15
Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures	14
Book Review	14
Book Review	13
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	12
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies	12
A multi-dimensional analysis of conclusions in research articles: Variation across disciplines	12
Using multiword collocations as a tool to address the demands of conventionalized medical discourse for international publication	11
Editorial Board	10

English needs analysis of food & beverage employees: A case study of a 5-star resort in Vietnam	10
Frame-based formulaic features in L2 writing pedagogy: Variants, functions, and student writer perceptions in academic writing	10
Suitability of TED-Ed animations for academic listening	10
“Maybe, but probably not”: A cross-disciplinary study of negation in Three Minute Thesis presentations	9
A corpus-based investigation on noun phrase complexity in L1 and L2 English writing	9
Verbal-visual skill-building and perceptional changes in English presentation	9
Book Review	9
A case study of the variety of writing assignments in an undergraduate English department	9
Review of “Conducting genre-based research in applied linguistics: A methodological guide”	9
Transcending science in scientific communication: Multimodal strategies to incorporate humanistic perspectives in TED talks on biology	8
The place of language in the theoretical tenets, textbooks, and classroom practices in the ESP genre-based approach to teaching writing	8
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited	8
Applying local grammars to the diachronic investigation of discourse acts in academic writing: The case of exemplification in Linguistics research articles	8
Business English: Research into professional practice	7
Examining promotional strategies and trends in successful grant application abstracts: Moves and appraisal resources	7
Editorial Board	7
Stance constructions in CEO statements of CSR reports of Chinese and US companies	7
Conference presentation preparation sessions as a site for academic discourse socialization in an engineering research team	7
The role of English language in the field of agriculture: A needs analysis	7
A practitioner's commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Tackling BELF communication challenges in cross-border mergers and beyond	6
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	6
The acquisition of formulaic sequences in EFL email writing	6
Intertextuality in business emails: An ESP Practitioner’s commentary on Warren’s research on intertextuality	6
Pre-service teachers’ belief changes in an English for specific purposes teacher education context	6
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?	6
Integrating multi-communication research and the business English class	6
A corpus-aided study of stance adverbs in judicial opinions and the implications for English for Legal Purposes instruction	6
Genre learning from the EAP class to undergraduate research symposiums	5
Integrating social justice-oriented content into English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instruction: A case study	5
Becoming a reviewer: Insights from the student and editorial boards of ESPJ	5
Editorial Board	5
Artist’s statements, ‘how to guides’ and the conceptualisation of creative practice	5
Book review	5
Modes and intersemiotic cohesion in student presentations performed online: An SF-informed multimodal discourse analysis	5
Book Review	5
Commentary on Rogerson-Revell, P. (2008). Participation and performance in international business meetings. English for Specific Purposes, 27, 338–360	5
Book Review	5