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Most cited papers in Cinema and Media Studies

What are the most cited papers in Cinema and Media Studies?

The most cited paper in Cinema and Media Studies is "Do online reviews matter? — An empirical investigation of panel data" (Wenjing Duan, Bin Gu, Andrew B. Whinston, 2008), with 1,703 citations. Next come "Word of Mouth for Movies: Its Dynamics and Impact on Box Office Revenue" (1,620) and "Understanding Popular Culture" (1,361).

Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 184 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
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1 Do online reviews matter? — An empirical investigation of panel data Wenjing Duan, Bin Gu, Andrew B. Whinston · Decision Support Systems Open access 11 Apr 2008 1,703
2 Word of Mouth for Movies: Its Dynamics and Impact on Box Office Revenue Yong Liu · Journal of Marketing 13 Jun 2006 1,620
3 Understanding Popular Culture John Fiske Book chapter 22 Nov 2006 1,361
4 Word of Mouth for Movies: Its Dynamics and Impact on Box Office Revenue Liu Yong · Journal of Marketing Jul 2006 1,359
5 The Origin of German Tragic Drama Don Callen, Walter W Benjamin · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1978 1,109
6 Hypersexual Disorder: A Proposed Diagnosis for DSM-V Martin P. Kafka · Archives of Sexual Behavior 23 Nov 2009 1,091
7 The Image of Objectivity Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison · Representations 1992 1,075
8 Intermediality, Intertextuality, and Remediation: A Literary Perspective on Intermediality Irina O. Rajewsky · Intermédialités Histoire et théorie des arts des lettres et des techniques Open access 10 Aug 2011 939
9 How Critical are Critical Reviews? The Box Office Effects of Film Critics, Star Power, and Budgets Suman Basuroy, Subimal Chatterjee, S. Abraham Ravid · Journal of Marketing Oct 2003 925
10 Enjoyment: At the Heart of Media Entertainment Peter Vorderer, Christoph Klimmt, Ute Ritterfeld · Communication Theory Nov 2004 916
11 Film Critics: Influencers or Predictors? Jehoshua Eliashberg, Steven M. Shugan · Journal of Marketing Apr 1997 828
12 Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts José Esteban Muñoz · Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory 1996 766
13 Nostalgia and Consumption Preferences: Some Emerging Patterns of Consumer Tastes Morris B. Holbrook · Journal of Consumer Research Sep 1993 734
14 The End of Framing as we Know it … and the Future of Media Effects Michael A. Cacciatore, Dietram A. Scheufele, Shanto Iyengar · Mass Communication & Society 11 Aug 2015 708
15 Appreciation as Audience Response: Exploring Entertainment Gratifications Beyond Hedonism Mary Beth Oliver, Anne Bartsch · Human Communication Research 16 Dec 2009 651
16 The online disinhibition effect John R. Suler · International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Jun 2005 648
17 Jacks of All Trades and Masters of None: Audiences' Reactions to Spanning Genres in Feature Film Production Greta Hsu · Administrative Science Quarterly Open access Sep 2006 629
18 The television will be revolutionized Barry A. T. Brown, Louise Barkhuus Conference paper 22 Apr 2006 589
19 “THE THRESHOLD OF THE VISIBLE WORLD”: Lilya Kaganovsky · Indiana University Press eBooks Book chapter 21 Feb 2019 557
20 The Motion Picture Industry: Critical Issues in Practice, Current Research, and New Research Directions Jehoshua Eliashberg, Anita Elberse, Mark A.A.M. Leenders · Marketing Science Open access Nov 2006 554
21 Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction Simon Egenfeldt‐Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca 15 Feb 2008 553
22 A Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity Shira Chess, Adrienne Shaw · Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 2 Jan 2015 532
23 Theorizing the moving image. Noël Carroll 1996 522
24 Genre and game studies: Toward a critical approach to video game genres Thomas H. Apperley · Simulation & Gaming 16 Feb 2006 514
25 Reliability, Validity, and Psychometric Development of the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory in an Outpatient Sample of Men Rory C. Reid, Sheila Garos, Bruce N. Carpenter · Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity The Journal of Treatment and Prevention 8 Mar 2011 467
26 Heavenly bodies: Film stars and society Denise Farran · Women s Studies International Forum 1988 458
27 Harmonic broadcasting for video-on-demand service Li-Shen Juhn, Li‐Ming Tseng · IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 1997 451
28 Do you identify as a gamer? Gender, race, sexuality, and gamer identity Adrienne Shaw · New Media & Society 16 Jun 2011 447
29 The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded Wanda Strauven · OAPEN (The OAPEN Foundation) Open access 2006 441
30 Reality TV the work of being watched Mark Andrejevic 2003 422
31 Concepts of transnational cinema: towards a critical transnationalism in film studies Will Higbee, Song Hwee Lim · Transnational Cinemas 2010 409
32 Witnessing John Durham Peters · Media Culture & Society Nov 2001 407
33 There is No Magic Circle Mia Consalvo · Games and Culture 20 Aug 2009 397
34 Cinderella's Stepsisters: A Feminist Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Marlene Boskind-Lodahl · Signs Dec 1976 387
35 The Power of Stars: Do Star Actors Drive the Success of Movies? Anita Elberse · Journal of Marketing Oct 2007 380
36 Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings Timothy J. Lyons, Gerald Mast, M. H. Cohen · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1975 373
37 Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft Lisa Nakamura · Critical Studies in Media Communication 28 Apr 2009 363
38 Dynamic Effects among Movie Ratings, Movie Revenues, and Viewer Satisfaction Sangkil Moon, Paul K. Bergey, Dawn Iacobucci · Journal of Marketing 7 Dec 2009 341
39 The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism Miriam Bratu Hansen · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks Book chapter 2009 335
40 Seasonality in the U.S. motion picture industry Liran Einav · The RAND Journal of Economics Mar 2007 334
41 Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life John Bury, Marjorie B. Garber · Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature 1996 333
42 Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture Victoria Lichterman · The Journal of Popular Culture Oct 2009 332
43 Predicting Movie Sales from Blogger Sentiment Gilad Mishne, Natalie Glance 2006 325
44 We are data: algorithms and the making of our digital selves Sophia Melanson · Information Communication & Society 15 Dec 2017 323
45 ‘If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis Melanie Kennedy · European Journal of Cultural Studies Open access 31 Jul 2020 315
46 SENTIENT CITIES Ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space Mike Crang, Stephen Graham · Information Communication & Society Open access Dec 2007 312
47 Back to the Future Wing‐Yee Cheung, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides et al. · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 8 Aug 2013 311
48 Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema Alexander Sesonske, David Bordwell · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1991 302
49 Predicting box-office success of motion pictures with neural networks Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen · Expert Systems with Applications 10 Aug 2005 299
50 An Empirical Investigation of Signaling in the Motion Picture Industry Suman Basuroy, Kalpesh Kaushik Desai, Debabrata Talukdar · Journal of Marketing Research 7 Apr 2006 297

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