Jim McKinley

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Jim McKinley is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Jim McKinley has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 38 papers in Language and Linguistics and 17 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Jim McKinley's work include Second Language Learning and Teaching (43 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (37 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (14 papers). Jim McKinley is often cited by papers focused on Second Language Learning and Teaching (43 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (37 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (14 papers). Jim McKinley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and Türkiye. Jim McKinley's co-authors include Heath Rose, Nicola Galloway, Jessica G. Briggs, Sihan Zhou, Yusop Boonsuk, Kari Şahan, Adem Soruç, Doğan Yüksel, Agata Mikołajewska and Sin Wang Chong and has published in prestigious journals such as Modern Language Journal, Academic Medicine and TESOL Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Jim McKinley

60 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Japan’s English-medium instruction initiatives and the globalization of higher education

2017 161 citations Heath Rose, Jim McKinley Higher Education profile →
Global Englishes and language teaching: A review of pedagogical research

2020 143 citations Heath Rose, Jim McKinley et al. Language Teaching profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jim McKinley United Kingdom	17	789	604	439	276	190	69	1.3k
Christine M. Tardy United States	19	987 1.3×	624 1.0×	448 1.0×	152 0.6×	307 1.6×	42	1.4k
Diane Belcher United States	20	1.3k 1.7×	986 1.6×	615 1.4×	211 0.8×	389 2.0×	45	1.9k
Lixian Jin United Kingdom	14	363 0.5×	419 0.7×	444 1.0×	215 0.8×	307 1.6×	35	1.1k
Samantha Curle United Kingdom	14	1.5k 1.9×	841 1.4×	390 0.9×	315 1.1×	174 0.9×	46	1.8k
Fan Fang China	23	1.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.7×	439 1.0×	816 3.0×	129 0.7×	98	1.7k
Ron Darvin Canada	17	712 0.9×	596 1.0×	312 0.7×	592 2.1×	88 0.5×	32	1.3k
David Graddol United Kingdom	11	516 0.7×	680 1.1×	185 0.4×	510 1.8×	133 0.7×	30	1.2k
Paul Prior United States	16	1.1k 1.3×	566 0.9×	688 1.6×	169 0.6×	298 1.6×	51	1.7k
Joan Swann United Kingdom	18	454 0.6×	463 0.8×	349 0.8×	271 1.0×	164 0.9×	36	1.2k
Melinda Dooly Spain	21	534 0.7×	560 0.9×	565 1.3×	187 0.7×	192 1.0×	77	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Jim McKinley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jim McKinley

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

McKinley, Jim. (2025). Beyond Proficiency: Rethinking Preparedness in English‐Medium Instruction. TESOL Journal. 16(4).

McKinley, Jim, et al.. (2025). Automate the ‘boring bits’: An assessment of AI-assisted systematic review (AIASR). Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 4(3). 100258–100258. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Sihan, Jian Xu, Heath Rose, & Jim McKinley. (2025). Exploring the emotion-motivation nexus in English-medium higher education: A longitudinal mixed-methods study. Learning and Individual Differences. 119. 102628–102628.

Soruç, Adem, Doğan Yüksel, Mehmet Barış Horzum, Jim McKinley, & Heath Rose. (2024). Linguistic and non-linguistic factors impacting EMI academic success: a longitudinal study. Higher Education. 88(5). 1947–1968. 12 indexed citations

McKinley, Jim, et al.. (2024). English medium instruction in Ethiopian university mission statements and language policies. Language Policy. 24(1). 85–106. 4 indexed citations

McKinley, Jim, Kari Şahan, Sihan Zhou, & Heath Rose. (2023). Researching EMI policy and practice multilingually: reflections from China and Turkey. Language and Education. 38(1). 5–22. 7 indexed citations

Baranowski, Mariusz, et al.. (2023). Social welfare in the light of topic modelling. Sociology Compass. 17(8). 7 indexed citations

Zheng, Yongyan, Xuesong Gao, Jim McKinley, et al.. (2023). Researching multilingually to rethink EMI policy and practices. Language Teaching. 57(1). 132–138. 2 indexed citations

McKinley, Jim, et al.. (2023). Problems posing as solutions: Criticising pragmatism as a paradigm for mixed research. Research in Education. 116(1). 124–138. 6 indexed citations

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Galloway, Nicola, Kari Şahan, & Jim McKinley. (2022). Esp in Surging Emi Contexts. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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McKinley, Jim, Heath Rose, & Xiao Lan Curdt‐Christiansen. (2022). EMI in Chinese higher education: the Muddy water of ‘Englishisation’. Applied Linguistics Review. 14(6). 1475–1481. 26 indexed citations

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Şahan, Kari, Nicola Galloway, & Jim McKinley. (2022). ‘English-only’ English medium instruction: Mixed views in Thai and Vietnamese higher education. Language Teaching Research. 29(2). 657–676. 43 indexed citations

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Thomas, Nathan, et al.. (2022). Chinese pre-service English teachers’ beliefs about English as an international language (EIL). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 45(10). 4166–4181. 11 indexed citations

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Yüksel, Doğan, Adem Soruç, & Jim McKinley. (2021). Teachers’ beliefs and practices about oral corrective feedback in university EFL classes. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 31(3). 362–382. 14 indexed citations

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McKinley, Jim, et al.. (2019). Issues of (in)visibility and compromise in academic work in UK universities. Studies in Higher Education. 47(6). 1057–1068. 16 indexed citations

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Rose, Heath & Jim McKinley. (2016). The Prevalence of Pedagogy-Related Research in Applied Linguistics: Extending the Debate. Applied Linguistics. 38(4). 599–604. 10 indexed citations

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McKinley, Jim. (2014). The impact of Western criticisms of Japanese rhetorical approaches on learners of Japanese. Language Learning in Higher Education. 4(2). 6 indexed citations

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McKinley, Jim. (2010). Critical Thinking in FLA English Composition. 27–32. 2 indexed citations

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McKinley, Jim. (2005). A Western Researcher in a Japanese University Writing Classroom: Limited or Advantaged? Cultural Sensitivity and the Debate on Japanese Students' Critical Thinking. 2(3). 139–146. 2 indexed citations

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Montecinos, Carmen, et al.. (1988). Follow-up study of an enrichment program for students preparing for health professional schools, 1972-1987. Academic Medicine. 63(6). 472–4. 6 indexed citations

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