Melissa A. Click

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Melissa A. Click is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Communication and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa A. Click has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Gender Studies, 9 papers in Communication and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Melissa A. Click's work include Gender, Feminism, and Media (9 papers), Media Studies and Communication (9 papers) and Media, Gender, and Advertising (3 papers). Melissa A. Click is often cited by papers focused on Gender, Feminism, and Media (9 papers), Media Studies and Communication (9 papers) and Media, Gender, and Advertising (3 papers). Melissa A. Click collaborates with scholars based in United States. Melissa A. Click's co-authors include Sam Ford, Kristina Busse, Xiaochang Li, Joshua Green, Paul Booth, Henry Jenkins, Suzanne Scott, Hyunji Lee, Ronit Ridberg and Jennifer Stevens Aubrey and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Men and Masculinities and Environmental Communication.

In The Last Decade

Melissa A. Click

18 papers receiving 902 citations

Hit Papers

Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Network... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 250 500 750
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.

  1. Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
    2014 773 citations Melissa A. Click et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melissa A. Click United States 8 505 375 253 141 107 21 1.0k
Kristina Busse United States 9 580 1.1× 384 1.0× 276 1.1× 189 1.3× 146 1.4× 15 1.1k
Sam Ford United States 5 396 0.8× 327 0.9× 148 0.6× 98 0.7× 64 0.6× 11 847
Annette Hill United Kingdom 14 414 0.8× 311 0.8× 388 1.5× 189 1.3× 84 0.8× 45 944
Klaus Bruhn Jensen Denmark 18 560 1.1× 672 1.8× 143 0.6× 155 1.1× 54 0.5× 75 1.3k
Kim Christian Schrøder Denmark 20 626 1.2× 729 1.9× 156 0.6× 151 1.1× 55 0.5× 70 1.4k
Tim Highfield Australia 13 591 1.2× 646 1.7× 242 1.0× 115 0.8× 40 0.4× 32 1.3k
Geert Lovink Netherlands 14 394 0.8× 308 0.8× 107 0.4× 74 0.5× 38 0.4× 73 841
Lisa Nakamura United States 11 533 1.1× 243 0.6× 249 1.0× 103 0.7× 47 0.4× 24 912
Marie Gillespie United Kingdom 15 681 1.3× 371 1.0× 124 0.5× 49 0.3× 88 0.8× 49 1.1k
John Corner United Kingdom 20 662 1.3× 760 2.0× 363 1.4× 231 1.6× 73 0.7× 86 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melissa A. Click

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa A. Click

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Click, Melissa A. & Suzanne Scott. (2025). The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. 1 indexed citations
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Ng, Eve & Melissa A. Click. (2025). Democratizing publishing in communication/media studies: a case study of Communication, Culture & Critique. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 140–164.
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Click, Melissa A., et al.. (2025). ‘She really gets my blood boiling': moral judgements, dislike and celebrities. Celebrity Studies. 1–18.
4.
Click, Melissa A.. (2021). Editor’s Statement. Communication Culture and Critique. 14(1). 1–3. 1 indexed citations
5.
Click, Melissa A.. (2021). It’S ‘A Good Thing’: The Commodification Of Femininity, Affluence, And Whiteness In The Martha Stewart Phenomenon. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 1 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A., et al.. (2021). Race talk, fandom, and the legacy of plantation culture in the NFL player protests. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 15(3). 256–273. 4 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A., et al.. (2019). One Tough Cookie: Exploring Black Women’s Responses to Empire’s Cookie Lyon. Communication Culture and Critique. 12(2). 287–304.
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Click, Melissa A. & Suzanne Scott. (2017). The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 68 indexed citations
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Aubrey, Jennifer Stevens, Melissa A. Click, & Elizabeth Behm‐Morawitz. (2016). The twilight of youth: Understanding feminism and romance in Twilight Moms’ connection to the young-adult vampire series.. Psychology of Popular Media Culture. 7(1). 61–71. 3 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A., et al.. (2015). ‘You’re born to be brave’: Lady Gaga’s use of social media to inspire fans’ political awareness. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 20(6). 603–619. 19 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A. & Andrea L. Press. (2015). The Contours of Feminist Media Studies. The Communication Review. 18(1). 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A., Brandon Miller, Elizabeth Behm‐Morawitz, & Jennifer Stevens Aubrey. (2015). Twi-dudes and Twi-guys. Men and Masculinities. 19(3). 219–239. 7 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A., et al.. (2014). “Let’s Hug It Out, Bitch”. Television & New Media. 16(5). 403–421. 10 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A., et al.. (2013). Making Monsters: Lady Gaga, Fan Identification, and Social Media. Popular Music & Society. 36(3). 360–379. 85 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A.. (2013). "Spreadable media: Creating value and meaning in a networked culture," by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14. 2 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A., Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, & Elizabeth Behm‐Morawitz. (2010). Bitten by Twilight. 6 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A. & Ronit Ridberg. (2010). Saving Food: Food Preservation as Alternative Food Activism. Environmental Communication. 4(3). 301–317. 25 indexed citations
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Aubrey, Jennifer Stevens, Elizabeth Behm‐Morawitz, & Melissa A. Click. (2010). romanticization of abstinence: Fan response to sexual restraint in the Twilight series. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 1 indexed citations
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Aubrey, Jennifer Stevens, Melissa A. Click, Debbie S. Dougherty, et al.. (2008). We Do Babies! The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Pregnancy and Parenting in the Academy. Women s Studies in Communication. 31(2). 186–195. 10 indexed citations
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Click, Melissa A. & Michael W. Kramer. (2007). Reflections on a Century of Living: Gendered Differences in Mainstream Popular Songs∗. Popular Communication. 5(4). 241–262. 8 indexed citations

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