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DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-893-204-213-EN

<title>RLCS, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social</title>
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<meta name="DC.title" content="Scientific field of Communication: examining its intellectual structure through cocitation analysis ”/>
<meta name="DC.creator.personalName" content="Msc. Yelina Piedra Salomón"/>
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<meta name="DC.contributor.editor" content="Dr. José Manuel de-Pablos-Coello"/>
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<meta name="DC.Description" lang="en" content=“Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, RLCS, is a scientific journal edited at the University of La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife, Canary Islands) in the Laboratory of Information Technologies and New Analysis of Communication, LATINA according to its initials in Spanish, founded in 1987 by Dr. José Manuel de Pablos Coello, under the protection of special doctorate programmes for Latin American professors. The journal publishes under the main summary almost exclusively research papers written following the formula IMR&DC+B: introduction, methodology, results and discussion plus conclusion, with a updated bibliography: at least 70% of the bibliographic entries must be from the past 10 years and half of them from scientific journals in Spanish and English languages. Reviewers make a double blind peer examination. This is a collective and inter-university project, including many professors and researchers from almost all Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. The journal is the following databases: EBSCO (USA), DOAJ (Lund University, Sweden), Redalyc (Mexico), Dialnet (Spain); and is indexed by the CINDOC-CSIC in DICE, ISOC, RESH, Office of Latin American Education, OEI according to its initials in Spanish; Dulcinea, etc. In Spain the journal is a reference in the Directory of Index of Spanish Periodicals of Social and Communication Sciences, IN-RECS, of the University of Granada, UGR. RLCS occupies the first position in the cumulative index for the periods 2003-2007; 2004-2008 and the year 2008”/>
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<meta name="DC.contributor.referee I" content="The article is relevant to unlock some of the deficits presented by emerging communication sciences. With a correct methodological foundation, the research tries to determine the theoretical and epistemological status of this discipline based on Cocitation studies, which provide a new vision that is complementary of other proposals. The investigation reveals the names of the most influential authors and their impact on the area based on the analysis of the database Social Sciences Citation Index (SSSCI), but underestimates other channels of consultation that may be relevant like the IN-RECS.
The research findings warn of insufficient visibility of Spanish authors against their Americans counterparts, the lack of research, focused on interpersonal and mass communication, and the necessary recurrence of researchers to other theoretical fields such as Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Linguistics. Based on all this, the author concludes that the field of communication is insufficiently legitimated science.- Silvia Jimenez, Ph.D - University of Salamanca - Camilo José Cela University."/>
<meta name="DC.contributor.referee II" content="Review 2. The subject of the article is relevant and current. It fits the topics linked to the magazine. Being a wide-ranging research it presents some imbalances in trying to synthesize data and results. Perhaps there is some discrepancy in describing one of the authors selected and his or her fieldwork –most cited authors- in the section that examines the intellectual structure of the scientific field of communication, in comparison to others. However, the contribution is very interesting as it traces a convincing X-ray of the field and the multidisciplinary spectrum that nurtures Communication Studies, as well as the lines that make its backbone, and the connections between authors and epistemological approaches, within a very specific frame like the index analyzed. The article is an example of a rigorous investigation, in line with the academic conventions, with an appropriate level in the citation and referencing of sources.- Maria Amor Pérez Rodríguez, Ph.D - University of Huelva."/>
<meta name="DC.description.abstract" content="Abstract: Presents the results obtained in the analysis of Communication as a scientific field from a metric point of view. The research was conducted from the use of bibliometric techniques and visualization tools, through which they tried to reveal the intellectual structure of the field in question, shown in published studies between 2000 and 2007 in the mainstream international journals that comprise the Web of Science. Considering the source analyzed it was found that Communication is an area of interdisciplinary knowledge characterized by epistemological legitimacy still insufficient, with a marked absence of reflections and theoretical proposals themselves from the field and that its structure is divided into two intelectutal well-defined subdisciplines: Interpersonal Communication and Mass Communication, crossed transversely by New Technologies./>
<meta name="DC.keywords" content="KeyWords: scientific field of communication; citation analysis; author cocitation analysis (ACA); documents cocitation analysis, journal cocitation analysis, intellectual structure."/>
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DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-893-204-213-EN/>