Overview of science communication (2017-2022): A thematic and bibliographic analysis

Abstract

This article presents the results of an integrative of the literature review on science communication. The objective is to know the panorama of R+D+i in science communication during 6 years; for this purpose, the existing literature on scientific communication is analysed in the databases Web of Science (WoS), Scopus and Dialnet, and define the formal dimensions (time frame, categories, fields of knowledge and lines of research) that have shaped the approaches within relevant articles included in the review. This analysis covers the period 2017-2022 and aims to serve as a reference to study the importance of research in scientific communication in different fields of knowledge, as well as to highlight the need for professional scientific communication in the educational, social, cultural, and social fields and professional domains. To do this, a search has been carried out through three databases, WOS (Web of Science), Scopus, and Dialnet by using a series of search criteria related to science communication. From these searches, the pertinent documents have been selected through reading the abstract and the author’s keywords, to assess later and determine which category created ad hoc based on research on science communication (educational, social, cultural, and professional domains) belongs to each document and find out which journal has published the most on the object of study during the 2017-2022 period. In a conclusion, the interest is limited to the branches of social sciences in areas such as communication, journalism and information and documentation sciences.

Keywords

• Science communication
• scientific journals
• scientific output
• professional scientific communication
• integrative review