Health information published on mass media and on Brazilian health journals: an infometric and bibliometric study

Autores/as

  • Helena Schmidt Burg Librarian in Tributário.
  • Adilson Luiz Pinto Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Departamento de Ciência da Informação.
  • Alexandre Ribas Semeler Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
  • Cristiane Luisa Salazar Garcia Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
  • Audilio Gonzales-Aguillar Professor, Department of Documentation at the University Paul Valery Montpellier III

Palabras clave:

Health information. Mass communication. Scientific communication. Bibliometric studies. Infometric studies.

Resumen

This work, based on a review of the literature on scientific communication, mass communication, the interaction between the two types of communication and their influence on society, has as goal to find out if the health information published on the mass medias is consistent with the research published on the Brazilian health journals. In order to do that, a bibliometric analysis of the most relevant topics being discussed on the Brazilian journals indexed in the Web of Science database was done, as well as an infometric analysis of the health information published on the mass medias focused on the propagation of scientific information, specifically on the magazines Ciência Hoje, Galileu and Superinteressante, from January of 2010 to December of 2012. The data collected shows that the more relevant topics discussed on the journals have their focus on analytical, therapeutic and diagnostic techniques, while the most popular topic on the mass medias is cancer, followed by other topics that appeal to the emotional side of their readers. The data has also shown that 42% of the most popular topics published in the scientific community are also published on the mass media publications, and that 56% of the topics published by the mass medias are not amongst the most relevant topics in the scientific journals. In conclusion, even though some of the topics published on scientific journals are also published on the mass media publications, that does not happen according to the same trends.

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Biografía del autor/a

Helena Schmidt Burg, Librarian in Tributário.

Librarian in Tributário

Adilson Luiz Pinto, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Departamento de Ciência da Informação.

Doctor in Documentation at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Espanha.  Professor, Department of Information Science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Alexandre Ribas Semeler, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Bibliotecário na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Doutorando em Ciência da Informação na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Cristiane Luisa Salazar Garcia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Doutoranda em Ciència da Informação na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Audilio Gonzales-Aguillar, Professor, Department of Documentation at the University Paul Valery Montpellier III

Professor, Department of Documentation at the University Paul Valery Montpellier III

Publicado

2016-12-29

Cómo citar

Burg, H. S., Pinto, A. L., Semeler, A. R., Garcia, C. L. S., & Gonzales-Aguillar, A. (2016). Health information published on mass media and on Brazilian health journals: an infometric and bibliometric study. Informação &Amp; Sociedade, 26(3). Recuperado a partir de https://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs/index.php/ies/article/view/29439

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