Mark Coddington

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Mark Coddington is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Coddington has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Communication, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Mark Coddington's work include Media Studies and Communication (19 papers), Social Media and Politics (18 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (8 papers). Mark Coddington is often cited by papers focused on Media Studies and Communication (19 papers), Social Media and Politics (18 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (8 papers). Mark Coddington collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Ireland. Mark Coddington's co-authors include Avery E. Holton, Seth C. Lewis, Logan Molyneux, Regina G. Lawrence, Rodrigo Zamith, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Carolyn Yaschur, Valérie Bélair‐Gagnon, Zvi Reich and Florian Wintterlin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and Digital Journalism.

In The Last Decade

Mark Coddington

22 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Clarifying Journalism’s Quantitative Turn

2014 325 citations Mark Coddington Digital Journalism profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Coddington United States	17	1.2k	648	166	153	85	25	1.5k
Eugenia Mitchelstein Argentina	18	1.3k 1.1×	947 1.5×	104 0.6×	126 0.8×	108 1.3×	41	1.7k
Summer Harlow United States	17	1.1k 1.0×	776 1.2×	189 1.1×	166 1.1×	66 0.8×	61	1.5k
Rodrigo Zamith United States	15	817 0.7×	558 0.9×	131 0.8×	101 0.7×	70 0.8×	26	1.2k
Tim Highfield Australia	13	646 0.5×	591 0.9×	113 0.7×	242 1.6×	115 1.4×	32	1.3k
Michael Karlsson Sweden	21	1.1k 0.9×	639 1.0×	96 0.6×	69 0.5×	72 0.8×	48	1.4k
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik Israel	24	981 0.8×	825 1.3×	224 1.3×	174 1.1×	121 1.4×	54	1.4k
Ahmed Al‐Rawi Canada	18	556 0.5×	657 1.0×	226 1.4×	91 0.6×	73 0.9×	93	1.1k
Stephanie Edgerly United States	21	967 0.8×	798 1.2×	143 0.9×	107 0.7×	145 1.7×	47	1.2k
Alberto Ardèvol‐Abreu Spain	15	1.1k 0.9×	926 1.4×	186 1.1×	68 0.4×	91 1.1×	39	1.4k
Steve Paulussen Belgium	16	1.0k 0.9×	640 1.0×	64 0.4×	118 0.8×	88 1.0×	57	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Coddington

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All Works

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Reich, Zvi, et al.. (2026). Comparing News Beat Structures across 13 Countries: From Geographic to Topical and Sub-Specialised Division of Labour. Journalism Studies. 1–21.

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Coddington, Mark & Logan Molyneux. (2024). Alternative Epistemologies as Distinguishing Features of Right-Wing and Left-Wing Media in the United States. Digital Journalism. 13(8). 1442–1460. 1 indexed citations

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Coddington, Mark, Seth C. Lewis, & Valérie Bélair‐Gagnon. (2021). The Imagined Audience for News: Where Does a Journalist’s Perception of the Audience Come From?. Journalism Studies. 22(8). 1028–1046. 46 indexed citations

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Lewis, Seth C., Rodrigo Zamith, & Mark Coddington. (2020). Online Harassment and Its Implications for the Journalist–Audience Relationship. Digital Journalism. 8(8). 1047–1067. 137 indexed citations

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Coddington, Mark. (2019). Aggregating the News: Secondhand Knowledge and the Erosion of Journalistic Authority. 5 indexed citations

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Molyneux, Logan & Mark Coddington. (2019). Aggregation, Clickbait and Their Effect on Perceptions of Journalistic Credibility and Quality. Journalism Practice. 14(4). 429–446. 67 indexed citations

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Coddington, Mark. (2018). Seeing Through the User’s Eyes. Electronic News. 12(4). 235–250. 13 indexed citations

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Coddington, Mark. (2018). Gathering evidence of evidence: News aggregation as an epistemological practice. Journalism. 21(3). 365–380. 16 indexed citations

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Holton, Avery E., Seth C. Lewis, & Mark Coddington. (2016). Interacting with Audiences. Journalism Studies. 17(7). 849–859. 45 indexed citations

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Holton, Avery E., Mark Coddington, Seth C. Lewis, & Homero Gil de Zúñiga. (2015). Reciprocity and the News: The Role of Personal and Social Media Reciprocity in News Creation and Consumption. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 22. 42 indexed citations

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Holton, Avery E., et al.. (2014). Seeking and Sharing: Motivations for Linking on Twitter. Communication Research Reports. 31(1). 33–40. 68 indexed citations

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Coddington, Mark. (2014). Clarifying Journalism’s Quantitative Turn. Digital Journalism. 3(3). 331–348. 325 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coddington, Mark & Avery E. Holton. (2013). When the Gates Swing Open: Examining Network Gatekeeping in a Social Media Setting. Mass Communication & Society. 17(2). 236–257. 47 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Regina G., Logan Molyneux, Mark Coddington, & Avery E. Holton. (2013). Tweeting Conventions. Journalism Studies. 15(6). 789–806. 112 indexed citations

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Coddington, Mark. (2013). Defending judgment and context in ‘original reporting’: Journalists’ construction of newswork in a networked age. Journalism. 15(6). 678–695. 27 indexed citations

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Coddington, Mark. (2013). Normalizing the Hyperlink. Digital Journalism. 2(2). 140–155. 23 indexed citations

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Lewis, Seth C., Avery E. Holton, & Mark Coddington. (2013). Reciprocal Journalism. Journalism Practice. 8(2). 229–241. 247 indexed citations

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Holton, Avery E., Mark Coddington, & Homero Gil de Zúñiga. (2013). Whose News? Whose Values?. Journalism Practice. 7(6). 720–737. 62 indexed citations

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Coddington, Mark. (2012). Building Frames Link by Link: The Linking Practices of Blogs and News Sites. International journal of communication. 6. 20. 26 indexed citations

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Coddington, Mark. (2012). Defending a Paradigm by Patrolling a Boundary. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 89(3). 377–396. 63 indexed citations

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