Mapeo científico de la Categoría «Comunicación» en WoS (1980-2013)

  1. Julio Montero-Díaz 1
  2. Manuel-Jesús Cobo 2
  3. María Gutiérrez-Salcedo
  4. Francisco Segado-Boj 1
  5. Enrique Herrera-Viedma 3
  1. 1 Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
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    Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/029gnnp81

  2. 2 Universidad de Cádiz
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    Universidad de Cádiz

    Cádiz, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04mxxkb11

  3. 3 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Revue:
Comunicar: Revista Científica de Comunicación y Educación

ISSN: 1134-3478

Année de publication: 2018

Titre de la publication: La esfera mediática. Controversias en la vida pública

Número: 55

Pages: 81-91

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3916/C55-2018-08 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

D'autres publications dans: Comunicar: Revista Científica de Comunicación y Educación

Résumé

El campo científico de la comunicación ha experimentado un enorme crecimiento a lo largo de los años, superando incluso a algunas áreas científicas consagradas. Mediante el uso de técnicas bibliométricas, podemos analizar la evolución conceptual, social e intelectual de esta área, así como comprenderla. En particular, el área de «Comunicación» ha sido ampliamente estudiada desde un punto de vista bibliométrico, pero no se ha realizado un análisis conceptual global del área englobado en un marco longitudinal. En este sentido, este artículo muestra el primer análisis de mapas científicos del área de investigación de la comunicación basándose en la Categoría de la Web of Science «Communication», centrándose en la estructura conceptual y cómo esta ha evolucionado. El estudio se ha realizado mediante la herramienta de análisis de mapas científicos SciMAT, basada en los mapas de co-palabras y en el índice-h. Un conjunto de 33.627 artículos científicos, publicados entre 1980 y 2013 en las 74 principales revistas del Journal Citation Reports de la Web of Science, han sido estudiados. Analizando los resultados, podemos destacar que la investigación llevada a cabo en el área de la comunicación se ha centrado en dieciséis áreas temáticas: «infancia», «aspectos psicológicos», «noticias», «audiencias», «sondeos», «publicidad», «salud», «relaciones», «género», «discurso», «comunicación telefónica», «relaciones públicas», «telecomunicaciones», «opinión pública», «activismo» e «Internet». Estas áreas se han desconectado entre ellas progresivamente, lo que conduce a un campo relativamente fragmentado.

Information sur le financement

Este trabajo ha sido financiado por los fondos FEDER (becas TIN2013-40658-P y TIN2016-75850-R) y por el proyecto de la Universidad de Cádiz PR2016-067.

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