The (lack of) mutual acknowledgement between iberian-american researchers of Communication Sciences

Abstract

This paper presents and discusses the results of a content analysis concerning a sample of scientific journals published within the field of communication sciences in Portugal, Brazil, and Spain. The objective of the analysis was to evaluate until what extent researchers from the three countries acknowledge each other. The study focus, principally, on the nationality of the authors who had published papers in that journals, as well as on the others authors they had referenced in those texts.