Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of English for Academic 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book review67
Top-down versus bottom-up pedagogy: Applications in the East Asian ESP classroom63
Stories and scenarios: Lecturers’ use of fantastic hypothetical events37
A multimodal analysis of pair work engagement episodes: Implications for EMI lecturer training30
“Now I hear what you say” - How short EAP courses can foster successful academic interactional strategies29
The impact of input format on written performance in a listening-into-writing assessment29
Development of syntactic complexity in Chinese university students’ L2 argumentative writing27
Showing as sense-making in oral presentations: The speech-gesture-slide interplay in TED talks by Professor Brian Cox25
Profiling figure legends in scientific research articles: A corpus-driven approach24
De-mystifying the nimbus of research: re-igniting practitioners' interest in exploring EAP24
Effects of explicit instruction on noun phrase production in L2 undergraduate writing23
Editorial Board21
Integrative genre-based pedagogy: Enhancing social responsiveness in English medium of instruction and STEM education21
Editorial Board21
BALEAP News October for November 202121
An investigation into the missions and practices of glocal writing centers in the Chinese context: ERPP and EAP-EGP hybrid approaches20
The influences of international master's students' feedback seeking behaviour on their feedback literacy and feedback contexts: An ecological perspective18
The need for English language development in anglophone higher education settings: A case study from Australia18
Re-exploring writer-reader interaction: Analyzing metadiscourse in EAP students’ infographics18
Storytelling in L2 English-medium engineering lectures: A typology18
“In the present study”: An exploration of prepositional phrase-frames in Chinese EFL learners’ theses and dissertations of applied linguistics18
Rhetorical structure of literature review chapters in Nepalese PhD dissertations: Students’ engagement with previous scholarship17
Using legitimation code theory to investigate English medium lecturers’ knowledge-building practices16
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 perspectives16
BALEAP News15
Developing advanced citation skills: A mixed-methods approach to corpus technology training for novice researchers15
BALEAP news – Introduction to SIGs: Meet the Doctoral Education SIG15
Editorial Board15
Promoting research: Academic hypes embedded in the rhetorical move structure of sociology research article abstracts15
A cross-sectional analysis of negation used in thesis writing by L1 and L2 PhD students15
A Chinese EFL student's strategies in graduation thesis writing: An Activity Theory perspective14
Self-empowerment in the struggling transition from General English to EAP: Action and reflection of a Chinese teacher14
“Writing by oneself is too lonely”: Understanding Chinese returnee scholars’ English collaborative writing experiences in academic publishing14
Examining the effects of comprehensive written corrective feedback on L2 EAP students’ linguistic performance: A mixed-methods study14
A systematic analysis of first-person identity roles in agricultural sciences13
Editorial Board13
Approaching digital genre composing through reflective pedagogical praxis13
Exploring the technicality of LIQUID metaphorical chunks in business discourse13
Book review13
Self-regulation and student engagement with feedback: The case of Chinese EFL student writers12
Book review12
The transition of EAP practitioners into scholarship writing11
Introduction to the special issue: Action research in english language and communication contexts in higher education11
From abstracts to “60-second science” podcasts: Reformulation of scientific discourse11
Move-stance connection in Chinese and English research article conclusion sections: A cross-linguistic study11
Tackling illegitimate intertextuality through socialization - An action research project11
Writers' communicative resources for comparing present and past research findings: A pedagogically motivated inquiry into scientists' rhetorical practices11
Preparing learners for digitally mediated academic communication: Digital multimodal practice in students’ knowledge dissemination videos11
Seeking research funding in a peripheral context: A learner corpus genre study of grant proposal summaries10
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs – Law10
A corpus-based analysis of discourse strategy use by English-Medium Instruction university lecturers in Turkey10
Editorial Board10
Are the titles of doctoral dissertations and research articles different? Observations from four STEM disciplines10
Transvocal stance in academic translation: A rhetorical analysis of grammatical stance in translated applied linguistics English research article abstracts10
Book review10
BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs: Meet academic literacies (AL) SIG10
Saying verbs in applied linguistics research articles: At the interface of reportage and evaluation10
Pre-admission EAP course completion as evidence of English language proficiency for university admission: A longitudinal evaluation study10
BALEAP news – Looking back, looking forward …10
Authorial voice in source-based and opinion-based argumentative writing: Patterns of voice across task types and proficiency levels9
Book Review9
Towards an understanding of EMI teacher expertise in higher education: An intrinsic case study9
Exploring the potential of using ChatGPT for rhetorical move-step analysis: The impact of prompt refinement, few-shot learning, and fine-tuning9
Exploring polysemy in the Academic Vocabulary List: A lexicographic approach9
Nursing and midwifery students’ ethical views on the acceptability of using AI machine translation software to write university assignments: A deficit-oriented or translanguaging perspective?9
A multi-faceted evaluation of the impact on students of an Australian university-wide academic language development program8
Disciplinary variation of metadiscourse: A comparison of human-written and ChatGPT-generated English research article abstracts8
Language-related perceptions: How do they predict student satisfaction with a partial English Medium Instruction in Higher Education?8
‘X can be classified into … ’: A local grammar of classification in academic discourse and its implications for EAP pedagogy8
Assessing the impact of pre-lecture reading compliance on lecture comprehension in English-medium instruction courses8
Effectiveness of student academic presentations: What do we learn from presentation guidebooks?8
Diachronic changes in the syntactic complexity of emerging Chinese international publication writers’ research article introductions: A rhetorical strategic perspective8
Evaluating co-production as a guiding philosophy for EAP teacher training course development8
Editorial Board8
Writing book reviews: Perceptions and experiences of Chinese novice scholars7
Exploration of value arguments in applied linguistics research articles7
Phrasal complexity in English argumentative writing: Variations across Chinese STEM versus English majors' production and EFL textbook essays7
Short vs. extended adolescent academic writing: A cross-genre analysis of writing skills in written definitions and persuasive essays7
Notetaking as validity evidence: A mixed-methods investigation of question preview in EAP listening assessment7
Citation practices in applied linguistics: A comparative study of Korean master's theses and research articles7
Discussing limitations in disciplinary writing: Self-reported limitations and self-justifications7
Book review6
Editorial Board6
A specialized vocabulary list from an original corpus of digital science resources for middle school learners6
Book review6
Multilevel engagement in academic L2 reading: Developing and validating a scale6
Microaggressions to microaffirmations: A trioethnography of plurilingual EAP instructors6
What can be done to make peer review a more sustainable practice?6
Book review6
Book review6
Utilization of appraisal resources for acknowledging limitations within doctoral theses across disciplines6
Learner-centered EAP practices: Managing agenda in tutorial interaction5
Investigating student difficulties in English-medium secondary classes: A functional linguist and a science educator in collaboration5
“We define X as …”: A local grammar of definition in linguistics research articles and its pedagogical value5
GPT as book reviewer: A move and syntactic complexity analysis of GPT-generated versus scholar-written academic book reviews5
Revamping an English for specific academic purposes course for problem-based learning: Reflections from course developers5
Editorial Board5
“I notice I'm getting more involved, interested, and excited about my future topic.” Action research as a transition from research steps to navigating graduate students' scholarly dispositions5
The dynamics of building academic writing knowledge in interaction5
Grammatical and functional characteristics of preposition-based phrase frames in English argumentative essays by L1 English and Spanish speakers5
Negotiating the path to publication: Functional units and lexical bundles in author responses to peer review5
Corrigendum to “The expression of obligation in student academic writing” [Journal of English for Academic Purposes (2020), (44), 100840]5
Using the knowledge and expertise of English language specialists to enhance L1 English speaking lecturers’ lectures: A professional development project5
Implementing academic reading circles in higher education: Exploring perceptions, motivation and outcomes5
Materials for an oral presentations class on gesture: Navigating a visual with your audience5
“It's complicated and nuanced”: Teaching genre awareness in English for general academic purposes5
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