Post-truth and fake news in scientific communication in Ibero-American journals

Abstract

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.