Jason Mittell

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Jason Mittell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason Mittell has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Communication and 7 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Jason Mittell's work include Digital Games and Media (6 papers), Cinema and Media Studies (6 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (6 papers). Jason Mittell is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (6 papers), Cinema and Media Studies (6 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (6 papers). Jason Mittell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Jason Mittell's co-authors include Marie‐Laure Ryan, Uri Margolin, David Herman, Teresa Bridgeman, H. Porter Abbott, Manfred Jahn, Neal R. Norrick, James Phelan, Monika Fludernik and Michael Toolan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, International journal of communication and Television & New Media.

In The Last Decade

Jason Mittell

23 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling

2015 391 citations Jason Mittell Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jason Mittell United States	10	480	477	378	323	222	26	1.3k
Matt Hills United Kingdom	13	191 0.4×	629 1.3×	246 0.7×	468 1.4×	195 0.9×	61	1.0k
Annette Hill United Kingdom	14	189 0.4×	414 0.9×	311 0.8×	388 1.2×	125 0.6×	45	944
Robert Stam United States	15	320 0.7×	637 1.3×	122 0.3×	181 0.6×	255 1.1×	73	1.4k
Lawrence A. Wenner United States	18	512 1.1×	1.1k 2.3×	540 1.4×	778 2.4×	177 0.8×	66	1.7k
Marsha Kinder United States	10	189 0.4×	373 0.8×	124 0.3×	152 0.5×	118 0.5×	68	795
Ruth Page United Kingdom	17	542 1.1×	459 1.0×	435 1.2×	171 0.5×	26 0.1×	49	1.4k
Janet Staiger United States	12	323 0.7×	315 0.7×	84 0.2×	163 0.5×	562 2.5×	39	1.1k
Christian Metz France	17	392 0.8×	390 0.8×	84 0.2×	105 0.3×	409 1.8×	57	1.4k
Bill Nichols United States	17	181 0.4×	349 0.7×	108 0.3×	88 0.3×	308 1.4×	63	954
Kevin G. Barnhurst United States	20	188 0.4×	450 0.9×	835 2.2×	112 0.3×	28 0.1×	54	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jason Mittell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jason Mittell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jason Mittell based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jason Mittell. Jason Mittell is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Mittell, Jason. (2024). “It was a work of art, and it was just real life”: Watching <i>The Rehearsal</i>. 11(1).

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Mittell, Jason. (2023). The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad. 2 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2021). Deformin' in the Rain: How (and Why) to Break a Classic Film. Digital humanities quarterly. 15(1). 2 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2017). All in the game: The Wire, narración seriada y la lógica del procedimental. 13–25. 1 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2017). Opening Up [in] Transition’s Open Peer-Review Process. Cinema Journal. 56(4). 137–141. 4 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2017). Narrative Theory and Adaptation.. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks.

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Mittell, Jason. (2016). <i>Adaptation.</i>'s Anomalies. 3(1).

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Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, et al.. (2016). The Future of Academic Publishing. Cinema Journal. 55(4). 155–169. 1 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason, et al.. (2016). The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image. BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London). 8 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2015). Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 391 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bird, S. Elizabeth, Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, et al.. (2014). Participations| Part 4: KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION. International journal of communication. 8. 27. 2 indexed citations

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Bird, S. Elizabeth, Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, et al.. (2014). Participations: Dialogues on the Participatory Promise of Contemporary Culture and Politics Part 4: Knowledge and Education. Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida). 8. 1216–1242. 1 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2012). Playing for Plot in the Lost and Portal Franchises. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 5–13. 8 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2009). Sites of participation: Wiki fandom and the case of Lostpedia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 49 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2009). Television and American Culture. 59 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2009). The Aesthetics of Failure. The Velvet Light Trap. 64(1). 76–77. 15 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2006). Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television. The Velvet Light Trap. 58(1). 29–40. 219 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2004). Genre and Television. 107 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2003). Audiences Talking Genre: Television Talk Shows and Cultural Hierarchies. Journal of Popular Film and Television. 31(1). 36–46. 9 indexed citations

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Mittell, Jason. (2001). A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory. Cinema Journal. 40(3). 3–24. 91 indexed citations

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