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In the understanding that an area of study is configured according to the communication of its means of scientific dissemination in a given social, political and economic context, the article aims to analyze the semantics and bibliometric structure contained in miscellaneous Chilean scientific-social journals of the XXI century. In methodological terms, it is a bibliometric study complemented with a qualitative semantic analysis. It has a non-experimental, descriptive design with longitudinal scopes. A total of 1,554 publications from three relevant journals of the Chilean social science system were analyzed between 2000 and 2019. The results show a) a structure of these symbolically generalized media under study; and b) they manage to unravel the social scientific semantics communicated in these media. It is concluded that the analyzed media are of individual writing, male, of institutional collaboration, mainly Chilean and Argentinean, with an ascending level of publications, in Spanish language, using secondary sources as documentation. In semantic terms, the media communicate a theoretical and epistemological relevance, which with methodological and essayist rigor build an identarian and situated political-social reflection. The work has a semantic and qualitative innovative potential applied to bibliometric studies of Chilean media in an important period of time, with work substantially carried out through quantitative variables, complementing from the interpretative in a semantic construction that contributes to configure an ethos of an area of study from its documentary sources.

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 post-truth 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.

Introduction: netnography is a research method that has emerged in response to the growing popularity of online communication and social networks. Aim: to analyze communication patterns about netnography in the Scopus database. Methods: a bibliometric study was conducted in the Scopus database on netnography. The analysis was conducted globally, by country, and by institution. Results: a total of 11173 documents and 2213 authors were recovered. 35,1 % of the documents were open access. The global field-weighted citation impact was 1,27. the most productive ones in the following order: United Kingdom (275 documents), United States (223 documents), Australia (165 documents), Brazil (100 documents), and France (83 documents). Conclusions: the results show that netnography is an emerging area of research, with a wide geographic and thematic diversity, that has experienced steady growth in recent years and is being explored in a variety of contexts, from market research to the analysis of social dynamics online.

Publications without authorship information have been indexed as anonymous in the Web of Science database over the years. However, discussions on this subject have not been sufficiently addressed in the scholarly literature. Since bibliometrics studies are widely used for bibliometricians, scientific disciplines, science policy, and management, missing significant data as authorship metadata characterizes a gray zone that directly impacts these three components, and by extension, for bibliometrics and scientometrics. With a data collection performed at Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC), 1,420,842 documents under “anonymous” authorship from 1900 to 2021 were retrieved, which accounted for 1.5% of the total documents indexed in the WoSCC. The publication data such as yearly growth of research publications, document type, language, productive research areas, and other bibliometric indicators were analyzed. The findings showed that in absolute numbers, a considerable growth of anonymous publications between 1996 and 2009, and there was a downward trend after that. However, this increase has not been proportional to the growth in the total number of publications indexed in the WoSCC. Articles, editorial materials, and news items were the top three document types among the WoSCC-indexed publications as anonymous. This study also finds two main scenarios of indexing publications as anonymous. The first is associated with the historical context of scholarly communication and practices that persist. The second is characterized by indexing persistent problems. This study suggests minimizing the error in databases, enabling an error-free indexing system and accurate bibliometrics studies.