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the news coverage of AIDS, some of which was considered “deliberate misinformation” (Price and Hsu 1992; Bird 1996). However, “fake news,” currently the most widespread term of those analyzed, was not used until 2005 (Baym 2005). The texts that appear in this paragraph and other similar ones have been excluded from the qualitative analysis of this chapter as they lack an explicit methodology, but they must be mentioned because they show the existence of a historical debate within the journalistic profession on the veracity of content, although that concern has intensified and been addressed with greater scientific rigor more recently. The current stage has also favored the emergence of new concepts, such as “junk news,” which refers to sources that deliberately publish misleading, deceptive, or incorrect information packaged as real news (Bradshaw et al. 2020), or “news-ness,” the extent to which audiences characterize specific content as news (Edgerly and Vraga 2020).

      In this context there is a predominance of articles with multiple authorship (70%), a decision that is probably justified by the complexity of the phenomenon and a multidisciplinary approach. This analysis makes it possible to compile the list of the most productive and reputed authors in this line of research, led by three women, Emily Vraga (13 articles), Leticia Bode (8), and Michelle Amazeen (7), followed by Lucas Graves, Michael Hameleers, Edson C. Tandoc Jr. (6), H. Lee, Richard Ling, and Chris Wells (5). In terms of affiliation, 14 universities account for a quarter of the entire production analyzed, with North American institutions occupying a dominant position. Outstanding in this respect is the University of Wisconsin, where the greatest number of articles registered in WoS (22) are generated, followed by the universities of Boston (15), Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education, London (12), George Mason, Minnesota, Austin Texas (11), Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, Ohio State, Amsterdam, Oxford, and, in Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (10).

      This domination of the research influences the language that predominates in the articles. Ninety-one percent of production is in English (487 articles), while Spanish comes a long way behind with 41 articles (7.6%). With insignificant percentages there are three articles in German, another three in Russian, one in Slovene, and another in Catalan.

Country Matches %
USA 249 46.5
United Kingdom 63 11.8
Spain 59 11.0
Australia 27 5.0
Germany 27 5.0
Netherlands 21 3.9
Canada 16 2.9
Singapore 13 2.4
Denmark 12 2.2
Switzerland 12 2.2
Article Authors Journal Year Total citations Average citations per year
The Daily Show: Discursive integration and the reinvention of political journalism Baym, Geoffrey Political Communication 2005 229 14.3
Defining fake news: A typology of scholarly definition Tandoc Jr., Edson C.; Lim, Zheng Wei; Ling, Richard Digital Journalism 2018 219 73
The age of Twitter: Donald J. Trump and the politics of
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