The construction of a hemerographic literature review. An example from the concepts fake news, post-truth and misinformation in the web of science (WoS) environment

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Gabriela Gómez-Rodríguez
Rodrigo González Reyes

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This article exemplifies a literature review of the concepts of fake news, post-truth, and disinformation, in the Web of Science database. The idea of ​​creating a state of the art, despite being a routine activity in research processes, implies accounting for the unique differences when addressing emerging issues (such as the concepts discussed here) and, particularly, in the last 15 years, from hemerographic tools, in turn, based on hemerometric tools. Through a hemerographic tracking with the resources provided by Web of Science, a systematization is carried out to offer a sample of the possibilities of that base to elaborate a literature review. It was found that this tool, -although with restricted access- is very useful for the elaboration of the first thematic maps in the search for emerging topics and the identification of research core by disciplinary areas, authors, and conceptual differences.

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Gómez-Rodríguez, Gabriela, and Rodrigo González Reyes. 2022. “The construction of a hemerographic literature review. An example from the concepts fake news, post-truth and misinformation in the web of science (WoS) environment”. Vivat Academia. Journal of Communication 155 (January):69-90. https://doi.org/10.15178/va.2022.155.e1335.
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Gabriela Gómez-Rodríguez, University of Guadalajara

Research Professor attached to the Department of Social Communication Studies (University of Guadalajara). Doctor in Communication from Concordia University (Canada); Master in Social Sciences (U. of Guadalajara) and Bachelor of Communication Sciences (ITESO). Since 2009, she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Comunicación y Sociedad Journal. She has published articles and book chapters, and coordinated publications in the lines of media-violence, journalism, science communication, television fiction, reality shows, among others. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) level 1. She is the Co-coordinator of the Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction (Obitel), Mexico. She is a member of various scientific editorial committees and national and international research networks.

Rodrigo González Reyes, University of Guadalajara

Doctor in Communication from the National University of La Plata, Argentina, Master in Communication (University of Guadalajara), and Bachelor of Communication Sciences (ITESO). He is a full-time researcher in the Department of Social Communication Studies, (University of Guadalajara), researcher of the UNESCO Chair in media literacy (UNESCO - AMIDI), deputy editor of the Comunicación y Sociedad Journal, and curricular coordinator of the Master in Edition and Communication (U of G). He is the author of more than 50 specialized academic publications, including books, chapters, articles, and translations.

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