Most-cited Arts and Humanities papers of 2020, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Arts and Humanities research papers published in 2020, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines
   Riaz Agha, Thomas Franchi et al. · 2020 · 5,595 citations
2. The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge
   Nicholas Stock · 2020 · 921 citations
3. A Guide to Writing the Dissertation Literature Review
   Justus Randolph · 2020 · 724 citations
4. Risking Ourselves in Education: Qualification, Socialization, and Subjectification Revisited
   Gert Biesta · 2020 · 608 citations
5. Acknowledging the use of human cadaveric tissues in research papers: Recommendations from anatomical journal editors
   Joe Iwanaga, Vishram Singh et al. · 2020 · 570 citations
6. Homeostasis: The Underappreciated and Far Too Often Ignored Central Organizing Principle of Physiology
   George E. Billman · 2020 · 454 citations · Free PDF
7. Disadvantages in preparing and publishing scientific papers caused by the dominance of the English language in science: The case of Colombian researchers in biological sciences
   Valeria Ramírez‐Castañeda · 2020 · 397 citations · Free PDF
8. Factors affecting the attitudes of students towards learning English as a foreign language
   Addisu Sewbihon Getie · 2020 · 387 citations
9. The role of growth mindset, self-efficacy and intrinsic value in self-regulated learning and English language learning achievements
   Barry Bai, Jing Wang · 2020 · 380 citations
10. History in a Crisis — Lessons for Covid-19
    David Shumway Jones · 2020 · 377 citations
11. Gustav Adolf Michaelis (1798–1848)
    Kristina N. Grigoreva · 2020 · 373 citations
12. The limitations to our understanding of peer review
    Jonathan Peter Tennant, Tony Ross‐Hellauer · 2020 · 363 citations
13. The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and Academic Achievement: An Overview of the Prevailing Literature and a Meta-analysis
    Eloise Botes, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. · 2020 · 336 citations
14. Exploring Emotions in Language Teaching
    Jack C. Richards · 2020 · 332 citations
15. The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce
    Umberto Eco, Thomas A. Sebeok · 2020 · 307 citations
16. Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View
    Wendy S. Parker · 2020 · 304 citations · Free PDF
17. Global Englishes and language teaching: A review of pedagogical research
    Heath Rose, Jim McKinley et al. · 2020 · 304 citations
18. The impact of Google Assistant on adolescent EFL learners’ willingness to communicate
    Tzu‐Yu Tai, Howard Hao-Jan Chen · 2020 · 299 citations
19. The role of grit and classroom enjoyment in EFL learners’ willingness to communicate
    Ju Seong Lee · 2020 · 298 citations
20. What is digital literacy? A comparative review of publications across three language contexts
    Luci Pangrazio, Anna-Lena Godhe et al. · 2020 · 292 citations
21. Emotions in Second Language Acquisition: a critical review and research agenda
    Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Chengchen Li · 2020 · 281 citations
22. Impact of automated writing evaluation on teacher feedback, student revision, and writing improvement
    Stephanie Link, Mohaddeseh Mehrzad et al. · 2020 · 275 citations
23. The Epistemic and the Zetetic
    Jane Friedman · 2020 · 274 citations
24. Task-based language teaching theory and practice
    Rod Ellis, Peter Skehan et al. · 2020 · 271 citations
25. The Universal Right to Breathe
    Achille Mbembé, Carolyn Shread · 2020 · 269 citations

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