Research on Disinformation in Academic Studies: Perspectives through a Bibliometric Analysis

IF 4.6 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Publications Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI:10.3390/publications12020014

Nuria Navarro-Sierra, Silvia Magro-Vela, Raquel Vinader-Segura

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Abstract

Disinformation is a phenomenon of concern to all political systems, as it poses a threat to freedom and democracy through the manipulation of public opinion aimed at eroding institutions. This paper presents a bibliometric and systematized study which allows the establishment of a comprehensive view of the research and current state of academic investigations on disinformation. To this end, a content analysis of the scientific articles indexed in Scopus up to 31 December 2023 has been carried out based on three categories of analysis: journals, authors and investigations. Similarly, a systematic study of the 50 most cited articles in this sample was performed in order to gain a deeper understanding of the nature, motivations and methodological approaches of these investigations. The results indicate that disinformation is a research topic which has gained great interest in the academic community since 2018, with special mention to the impact of COVID-19 and the vaccines against this disease. Thus, it can be concluded that disinformation is an object of study which attracts significant attention and which must be approached from transdisciplinarity to respond to a phenomenon of great complexity.

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学术研究中的虚假信息研究：文献计量分析透视

虚假信息是所有政治制度都关注的一种现象，因为它通过操纵舆论来侵蚀制度，从而对自由和民主构成威胁。本文通过文献计量学和系统化研究，对虚假信息的研究和学术调查现状有了一个全面的了解。为此，我们对截至 2023 年 12 月 31 日被 Scopus 索引的科学文章进行了内容分析，分析分为三类：期刊、作者和调查。同样，还对样本中被引用次数最多的 50 篇文章进行了系统研究，以深入了解这些调查的性质、动机和方法。研究结果表明，虚假信息是自 2018 年以来在学术界引起极大兴趣的研究课题，其中特别提到了 COVID-19 和针对该疾病的疫苗的影响。因此，可以得出结论，虚假信息是一个备受关注的研究对象，必须从跨学科的角度来应对这一极为复杂的现象。

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Publications Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

CiteScore

6.50

自引率

1.90%

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审稿时长

11 weeks

期刊介绍： The scope of Publications includes: Theory and practice of scholarly communication Digitisation and innovations in scholarly publishing technologies Metadata, infrastructure, and linking the scholarly record Publishing policies and editorial/peer-review workflows Financial models for scholarly publishing Copyright, licensing and legal issues in publishing Research integrity and publication ethics Issues and best practices in the publication of non-traditional research outputs (e.g., data, software/code, protocols, data management plans, grant proposals, etc.) Issues in the transition to open access and open science Inclusion and participation of traditionally excluded actors Language issues in publication processes and products Traditional and alternative models of peer review Traditional and alternative means of assessment and evaluation of research and its impact, including bibliometrics and scientometrics The place of research libraries, scholarly societies, funders and others in scholarly communication.