| A new medical academic word list: A corpus-based study with enhanced methodology L Lei, D Liu Journal of English for academic purposes 22, 42-53, 2016 | 270 | 2016 |
| 学生英语学习需求视角下的大学英语教学 赵庆红， 雷蕾， 张梅 外语界, 14-22, 2009 | 227 | 2009 |
| Research trends in applied linguistics from 2005 to 2016: A bibliometric analysis and its implications L Lei, D Liu Applied Linguistics 40 (3), 540-561, 2019 | 225 | 2019 |
| Lexical bundles in the academic writing of advanced Chinese EFL learners Y Wei, L Lei RELC journal 42 (2), 155-166, 2011 | 159 | 2011 |
| Linking adverbials in academic writing on applied linguistics by Chinese doctoral students L Lei Journal of English for Academic Purposes 11 (3), 267-275, 2012 | 149 | 2012 |
| Syntactic complexity in English as a lingua franca academic writing X Wu, A Mauranen, L Lei Journal of English for Academic Purposes 43, 100798, 2020 | 119 | 2020 |
| A bibliometric analysis of topic modelling studies (2000–2017) X Li, L Lei Journal of Information Science 47 (2), 161-175, 2021 | 118 | 2021 |
| The appeal to political sentiment: An analysis of Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s speech themes and discourse strategies in the 2016 US presidential election D Liu, L Lei Discourse, context & media 25, 143-152, 2018 | 116 | 2018 |
| Lack of improvement in scientific integrity: An analysis of WoS retractions by Chinese researchers (1997–2016) L Lei, Y Zhang Science and engineering ethics 24 (5), 1409-1420, 2018 | 115 | 2018 |
| The research trends and contributions of System's publications over the past four decades (1973–2017): A bibliometric analysis L Lei, D Liu System 80, 1-13, 2019 | 95 | 2019 |
| The academic English collocation list: A corpus-driven study L Lei, D Liu International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23 (2), 216–243, 2018 | 88 | 2018 |
| An empirical study of success and failure attributions of EFL learners at the tertiary level in China LEI Lei, X Qin Asian EFL Journal 11 (3), 29-51, 2009 | 67 | 2009 |
| Conducting Sentiment Analysis L Lei, D Liu Elements in Corpus Linguistics, 2021 | 50 | 2021 |
| The research trends of multilingualism in applied linguistics and education (2000–2019): A bibliometric analysis Z Lin, L Lei Sustainability 12 (15), 6058, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Readability and citations in information science: Evidence from abstracts and articles of four journals (2003–2012) L Lei, S Yan Scientometrics 108, 1155-1169, 2016 | 47 | 2016 |
| Should highly cited items be excluded in impact factor calculation? The effect of review articles on journal impact factor L Lei, Y Sun Scientometrics 122 (3), 1697-1706, 2020 | 45 | 2020 |
| A large-scale longitudinal study of syntactic complexity development in EFL writing: A mixed-effects model approach L Lei, J Wen, X Yang Journal of Second Language Writing 59, 100962, 2023 | 40 | 2023 |
| Technical vocabulary D Liu, L Lei The Routledge handbook of vocabulary studies, 111-124, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
| Is dependency distance experiencing a process of minimization? A diachronic study based on the State of the Union addresses L Lei, J Wen Lingua 239, 102762, 2020 | 39 | 2020 |
| Publications in linguistics journals from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau (2003–2012): A bibliometric analysis L Lei, S Liao Journal of Quantitative linguistics 24 (1), 54-64, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
Dilin LiuProfessor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics/TESOL, The University of AlabamaVerified email at as.ua.edu