Redes de coautorías de la investigación española y latinoamericana en Comunicación (2000-2019)cohesión interna y aislamiento transcontinental

  1. Francisco Segado-Boj 1
  2. Juan-José Prieto-Gutiérrez 1
  3. Jesús Díaz-Campo 2
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

  2. 2 Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
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    Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/029gnnp81

Journal:
El profesional de la información

ISSN: 1386-6710,  1699-2407

Year of publication: 2021

Issue Title: Periodismo hi-tech / Hi-tech Journalism

Volume: 30

Issue: 3

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3145/EPI.2021.MAY.05 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This paper studies the social structure of Spanish and Latin American communication researchers through the representation and analysis of three coauthorship networks at the national, institutional, and individual level. Such networks are built from papers indexed in the 'Communication' category by Web of Science and published between 2000 and 2019 by authors attached to a Spanish or Latin American institution (n = 5,040). The goal is to characterize the structural features of each network, identify the most central actors, and illustrate the most relevant relationships among nodes. The results show that the most central country is Spain, followed by the USA and other European nations. Among the Latin American states, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico are placed at the most relevant nodes. Latin American collaboration is preferentially addressed to the USA, especially since 2015. Regarding institutions, Spanish public universities in Madrid and Catalonia achieve the highest degrees of centrality. However, the most central Latin American institutions are private universities. The most relevant authors are Spanish researchers until 2015, when they are replaced at the top by Latin American scholars. Collaboration at both the individual and institutional levels shows a deep regional tendency, while the internationalization of researchers and universities is only more visible since 2015. This work identifies a tendency towards internal cohesion at different network levels as the number of connected nodes grows in each period. We conclude that a proper Spanish-Latin America community of communication researchers does not exist.

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Este trabajo ha sido parcialmente financiado por el Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Global de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en el marco de las Ayudas a Investigación del curso 2020/2021 y por el Vicerrectorado de Investigación de la Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, en el marco del Plan Estratégico de Investigación (2020-2024).

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