OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of English for Academic Purposes is 20. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
“Now I hear what you say” - How short EAP courses can foster successful academic interactional strategies	45
De-mystifying the nimbus of research: re-igniting practitioners' interest in exploring EAP	41
Top-down versus bottom-up pedagogy: Applications in the East Asian ESP classroom	35
Book review	35
Students’ self-determination in using machine translation and generative AI tools for English for academic purposes	34
Generative AI in dissertation writing: L2 doctoral students’ self-reported use, AI-giarism, and perceived training needs	30
English reading expectations in Swedish higher education	29
The impact of input format on written performance in a listening-into-writing assessment	29
Development of syntactic complexity in Chinese university students’ L2 argumentative writing	25
A multimodal analysis of pair work engagement episodes: Implications for EMI lecturer training	24
“In the present study”: An exploration of prepositional phrase-frames in Chinese EFL learners’ theses and dissertations of applied linguistics	23
The influences of international master's students' feedback seeking behaviour on their feedback literacy and feedback contexts: An ecological perspective	23
Integrative genre-based pedagogy: Enhancing social responsiveness in English medium of instruction and STEM education	23
Rhetorical structure of literature review chapters in Nepalese PhD dissertations: Students’ engagement with previous scholarship	22
Storytelling in L2 English-medium engineering lectures: A typology	22
Editorial Board	22
An investigation into the missions and practices of glocal writing centers in the Chinese context: ERPP and EAP-EGP hybrid approaches	21
Re-exploring writer-reader interaction: Analyzing metadiscourse in EAP students’ infographics	21
The need for English language development in anglophone higher education settings: A case study from Australia	20
What does it mean to construct an argument in academic writing? A synthesis of English for general academic purposes and English for specific academic purposes perspectives	20
BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet the Doctoral Education SIG	20