| Transitional regularities for ‘casual’“Okay” usages WA Beach Journal of Pragmatics 19 (4), 325-352, 1993 | 751 | 1993 |
| Claiming insufficient knowledge WA Beach, TR Metzger Human communication research 23 (4), 562-588, 1997 | 298 | 1997 |
| Preserving and Constraining Options:“Okays” and ‘Official'Priorities in Medical Interviews WA Beach The talk of the clinic, 259-289, 2013 | 204 | 2013 |
| Conversation analysis:“Okay” as a clue for understanding consequentiality WA Beach The consequentiality of communication, 121-161, 2013 | 177 | 2013 |
| Disclosing and responding to cancer “fears” during oncology interviews WA Beach, DW Easter, JS Good, E Pigeron Social Science & Medicine 60 (4), 893-910, 2005 | 161 | 2005 |
| Revealing moments: Formulating understandings of adverse experiences in a health appraisal interview WA Beach, CN Dixson Social Science & Medicine 52 (1), 25-44, 2001 | 145 | 2001 |
| Competent patient care is dependent upon attending to empathic opportunities presented during interview sessions DW Easter, W Beach Current Surgery 61 (3), 313-318, 2004 | 104 | 2004 |
| Conversations about illness: Family preoccupations with bulimia WA Beach Routledge, 2012 | 95 | 2012 |
| A natural history of family cancer: Interactional resources for managing illness WA Beach Hampton Press, 2009 | 87 | 2009 |
| Between dad and son: Initiating, delivering, and assimilating bad cancer news WA Beach Health Communication 14 (3), 271-298, 2002 | 84 | 2002 |
| Orienting to the phenomenon WA Beach Building Communication Theories, 133-163, 2013 | 81 | 2013 |
| Laughter, humor, and cancer: Delicate moments and poignant interactional circumstances WA Beach, E Prickett Health communication 32 (7), 791-802, 2017 | 78 | 2017 |
| Communication and cancer? Part I: The noticeable absence of interactional research WA Beach, JK Anderson Journal of Psychosocial Oncology 21 (3), 1-23, 2003 | 78 | 2003 |
| Body disclosures: Attending to personal problems and reported sexual abuse during a medical encounter WA Beach, CD LeBaron Journal of Communication 52 (3), 617-639, 2002 | 76 | 2002 |
| Fears, uncertainties, and hopes: Patient-initiated actions and doctors’ responses during oncology interviews WA Beach, DM Dozier Journal of Health Communication 20 (11), 1243-1254, 2015 | 71 | 2015 |
| Temporal density in courtroom interaction: Constraints on the recovery of past events in legal discourse WA Beach Communications Monographs 52 (1), 1-18, 1985 | 71 | 1985 |
| Stability and ambiguity: Managing uncertain moments when updating news about mom's cancer WA Beach Text & Talk 21 (1-2), 221-250, 2001 | 64 | 2001 |
| Inviting collaborations in stories about a woman WA Beach Language in Society 29 (3), 379-407, 2000 | 63 | 2000 |
| Language as and in technology: Facilitating topic organization in a Videotex focus group meeting WA Beach Communication and the culture of technology, 197-220, 1990 | 61 | 1990 |
| Introduction: Diagnosing ‘lay diagnosis’ WA Beach Text & Talk 21 (1-2), 13-18, 2001 | 60* | 2001 |
