| The Midlands TV Research Group's'8-9 Project' C Brunsdon, C Johnson, R Moseley, H Wheatley Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies 1 (1), 246, 2003 | 298* | 2003 |
| Branding Television C Johnson Routledge, 2012 | 296 | 2012 |
| Branding Television C Johnson Taylor & Francis, 2011 | 296 | 2011 |
| Online TV C Johnson | 281 | 2019 |
| Factual entertainment on British television The Midlands TV Research Group’s ‘8–9 Project’ C Brunsdon, C Johnson, R Moseley, H Wheatley European Journal of Cultural Studies 4 (1), 29-62, 2001 | 215 | 2001 |
| TELE‐BRANDING IN TVIII C Johnson New Review of Film and Television Studies 5 (1), 5-24, 2007 | 176 | 2007 |
| Telefantasy C Johnson The Television Genre Book, 2015 | 158* | 2015 |
| Promotional Screen Industries P Grainge, C Johnson Routledge, 2015 | 156 | 2015 |
| Telefantasy C Johnson British Film Institute, 2005 | 150 | 2005 |
| Telefantasy C Johnson pages. ISBN, 2005 | 150 | 2005 |
| Transnational television history A Fickers, C Johnson Routledge, 2012 | 99* | 2012 |
| ITV cultures Johnson Open University Press, 2005 | 91* | 2005 |
| Independent Television Over Fifty Years R Turnock, C Johnson Open University Press, 2005 | 91* | 2005 |
| Beyond catch-up: VoD interfaces, ITV Hub and the repositioning of television online C Johnson Critical Studies in Television 12 (2), 121-138, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| Quality/Cult Television: The X-Files and Television History C Johnson The Contemporary Television Series, 61, 2005 | 61 | 2005 |
| TRANSNATIONAL TELEVISION HISTORY: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH: Introduction A Fickers, C Johnson Media History 16 (1), 1-11, 2010 | 58 | 2010 |
| The appisation of television: TV apps, discoverability and the software, device and platform ecologies of the internet era C Johnson Critical Studies in Television 15 (2), 165-182, 2020 | 54 | 2020 |
| From Catch-Up TV to Online TV: Digital broadcasting and the case of BBC iPlayer C Johnson, P Grainge Screen 59 (1), 21-40, 2018 | 54* | 2018 |
| From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting C Johnson Media, Culture & Society 35 (3), 314-331, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| From start-up to consolidation: institutions, regions and regulation over the history of ITV C Johnson, R Turnock 2005) ITV Cultures: Independent Television Over Fifty Years, 15-34, 2005 | 42 | 2005 |
