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This research analyzes the scientific production related to convergence culture through bibliometric indicators of production, citation and relational co-citation. Specifically, it evaluates scientific production using production and citation indicators, and characterizes the main influencers on the recovered work through the analysis of co-citation between authors. For this, it searches for the term convergence culture in the Web of Science database and evaluates the production of articles over the years together with the citations received and reveals, through the analysis of co-citation between authors, the main influencers on the retrieved work. To analyze the co-citations, it uses the concept of diachronic recitations of authors per document to build the intellectual structure of the domain in question. As a result, it presents a low productivity of articles close to saturation, 34% of the articles without citations received and with a clear deceleration of citations per article. It illustrates that the intellectual structure of the theme is composed of 46 authors most cited in the entire work, with emphasis on Henry Jenkins, Scolari, Williams, Bruns, Couldry, Deuze, Carpentier and Andrejevier. It concludes with low productivity on the subject and with strong influences from the pioneer Henry Jenkins, who is the most cited, recited and co-cited author among all cited authors.

This paper sought to identify trends in the research of “public opinion”, allowing for an analysis of the field in a systematized manner. We carried out a bibliometric study of 2,536 articles selected from the Web of Science. We aimed to characterize the research front and intellectual base of the field. In relation to the research front, we noted an increase in publications between 1945 and 2016; we identified Robert Shapiro and Lawrence Jacobs as the most productive authors; among the most referenced articles were those by Gamson and Modigliani (1989) and Page and Shapiro (1983). We also identified that the majority of articles are: by North American authors; were published in the journals Public Opinion Quarterly and Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya; are indexed in the categories of Government & Law and Political Science and represented by the keywords public opinion, attitudes, support, policy, the United States and politics. With regard to the intellectual base in the journal co-citation network, the Public Opinion Quarterly, American Political Science Review and American Journal of Political Science stood out. In the author co-citation network the most prominent authors were Page and Zaller. In the analysis of the references co-citation, the most frequent texts in the network were by Zaller (1992) and Page and Shapiro (1992). We concluded that scientific output on public opinion is on the increase, with a dynamic expansion of the research front and intellectual base.

The article responds to a methodological problem that deepens the analysis of qualitative thematic content, unraveling the semantics of a symbolically generalized social science media. The proposal seeks to transform itself into a methodological contribution that complements bibliometric and co-word studies, which when presented through metric indicators, do not deepen in the semantic construction of these publications, being able to present a configuration as an area of study or scientific discipline. Through a bibliometric and relational work of Izquierdas journal, indicators with semantic value of this medium were methodologically studied. The complete trajectory of publications equivalent to 515 documents between the years 2008 and 2019 and extracted from the journal’s website was analyzed. The procedure was carried out in two phases: the first one through the application of a qualitative thematic content analysis and; a second phase, where the results of this thematic categorization were analyzed, together with the key words and the published titles, in the understanding that these indicators contain core information that in analytical convergence end up constituting interpretative semantics of the media. The results show a methodological strategy capable of configuring a contained semantics as a symbolically generalized means of communication in the social sciences. On the other hand, the proposal has a potential for replication in other areas of study or scientific disciplines of the social and human sciences, due to its multi-paradigmatic epistemological nature.