| When citizen photojournalism sets the news agenda: Neda Agha Soltan as a Web 2.0 icon of post-election unrest in Iran M Mortensen Global Media and Communication 7 (1), 4-16, 2011 | 218 | 2011 |
| Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict M Mortensen Routledge, 2015 | 146 | 2015 |
| What is the self in the celebrity selfie? Celebrification, phatic communication and performativity A Jerslev, M Mortensen Celebrity studies 7 (2), 249-263, 2016 | 129 | 2016 |
| Constructing, confirming, and contesting icons: the Alan Kurdi imagery appropriated by #humanitywashedashore, Ai Weiwei, and Charlie Hebdo M Mortensen Media, Culture & Society 39 (8), 1142-1161, 2017 | 120 | 2017 |
| Media morality and visual icons in the age of social media: Alan Kurdi and the emergence of an impromptu public of moral spectatorship M Mortensen, HJ Trenz Javnost-The Public 23 (4), 343-362, 2016 | 112 | 2016 |
| The playful politics of memes M Mortensen, C Neumayer The Playful Politics of Memes, 1-11, 2023 | 87 | 2023 |
| Conflictual media events, eyewitness images, and the Boston marathon bombing (2013) M Mortensen Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism, 82-97, 2017 | 77 | 2017 |
| Connective witnessing: Reconfiguring the relationship between the individual and the collective M Mortensen Information, Communication & Society 18 (11), 1393-1406, 2015 | 74 | 2015 |
| The dynamics of mediatized conflicts MF Eskjær, S Hjarvard, M Mortensen Peter Lang, 2015 | 71* | 2015 |
| Amateur sources breaking the news, metasources authorizing the news of Gaddafi’s death: New patterns of journalistic information gathering and dissemination in the digital age NN Kristensen, M Mortensen Digital Journalism 1 (3), 352-367, 2013 | 67 | 2013 |
| The iconic image in a digital age M Mortensen, S Allan, C Peters Nordicom Review 38 (s2), 71-86, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
| Introduction: Three dynamics of mediatized conflicts S Hjarvard, M Mortensen, MF Eskjær The dynamics of mediatized conflicts, 1-27, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Citizen journalism: valuable, useless, or dangerous? M Wall (No Title), 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| The eyewitness in the age of digital transformation M Mortensen Teoksessa Andén-Papadopoulos, Kari & Pantti, Mervi (toim.) Amateus Images …, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| Digital images and globalized conflict B Blaagaard, M Mortensen, C Neumayer Media, Culture & Society 39 (8), 1111-1121, 2017 | 47 | 2017 |
| Proximity and distance in the mediation of suffering: Local photographers in war-torn Aleppo and the international media circuit NG Mollerup, M Mortensen Journalism 21 (6), 729-745, 2020 | 45* | 2020 |
| The image speaks for itself”–or does it? Instant news icons, impromptu publics, and the 2015 European “refugee crisis M Mortensen Communication and the Public 1 (4), 409-422, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| Photojournalism and citizen journalism: co-operation, collaboration and connectivity S Allan Taylor & Francis, 2017 | 42 | 2017 |
| Users across media: An introduction. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 23 (4), 343–351 S Lomborg, M Mortensen | 38* | 2017 |
| Taking the extra out of the extraordinary: Paparazzi photography as an online celebrity news genre M Mortensen, A Jerslev International journal of cultural studies 17 (6), 619-636, 2014 | 37* | 2014 |
Mikkel EskjærAalborg UniversityVerified email at hum.aau.dk