Abstract

ARIAS, Dineyis; GONZALEZ PARDO, Rafael Eduardo  and  CORTES PENA, Omar. Post-truth and fake news in scientific communication in Ibero-American journals. Comun. soc [online]. 2023, vol.20, e8442.  Epub Dec 08, 2023. ISSN 0188-252X.  https://doi.org/10.32870/cys.v2023.8442.

The article presents a content analysis with a bibliometric approach of post-truth and fake news to determine their thematic presence in scientific communication journals in Ibero-America. The theoretical, methodological and conceptual contributions of posttruth and fake news are analyzed with a sample of N = 46 articles published in 17 journals specialized in communication (WoS, ESCI and Scopus) between 2000 and 2019. The country with the highest publication on post-truth and fake news is Spain, the prevailing research approach is quantitative, establishing semantic associations with the media, technological and informational ecosystem and disinformation.

Keywords : Post-truth; communication; Iberoamerica; fake news; scientific journals.