Infodemia: análise da produção de artigos científicos no Portal de Periódicos Capes

Abstract

The objective is to investigate the scenario of scientific production on infodemic at national and international levels to understand the phenomenon, based on a review of the Portal de Periódicos Capes database. To do so, a priori bibliographic review is conducted, focusing on a historical approach to the development of the information society and the evolution of information production over time, in order to contextualize the informational phenomena resulting from these processes. The intention is also to reflect on the definitions of disinformation, fake news, post-truth, and their relationships with the infodemic, identify the predominant institution and language, analyze the temporal evolution of research on the topic, observe the most productive journals and authors and the profile of authorship, verifying the publication areas, and reflect on the approaches to the topic through keywords. The research is characterized as exploratory and descriptive, with a quantitative approach. Bibliometric analysis methods are applied for data collection and quantification. The results show a concentration of scientific productions on the infodemic theme in different Brazilian institutions, through the institutional affiliation of the author. There is a higher frequency of publications in the areas of health, information, and communication. Furthermore, a broad relationship between the infodemic theme and Covid-19 is identified, due to the context in which the term was popularized. From the observations, it is concluded that the theme is transversal to the fields of information and communication and health.