The impact of term fake news on the scientific community. scientific performance and mapping in web of science Alonso García, Santiago Gómez García, Gerardo Sanz Prieto, Mariano Moreno Guerrero, Antonio José Rodríguez Jiménez, Carmen Fake news Disinformation Internet Scientometrics Researchers of the research group AREA (HUM-672). Research group by belonging to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Junta de Andalucía and based in the Department of Didactics and School Organization of the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Granada. Nowadays, multiple phenomena have promoted an impact on society, constituting in some cases, not only a contribution of benefits but also of risks. Among them, the fake news phenomenon is considered one of the most burning phenomena today due to the risk it poses to society. In view of this situation, the research community has carried out numerous studies that seek to address this issue from a multidisciplinary perspective. Based on this, the objective of this work was to analyze the productivity and, therefore, the impact of this topic in the research community. To this end, this work advocated a scientometric-type methodology, through scientometric laws, impact indicators, and scientific evolution of 640 publications of the web of science (WOS). The results showed the impact of the fake news discipline today, which is considered an emerging issue that is of interest to many knowledge disciplines around the world. Likewise, the results showed that the publications not only have a focus on analyzing the veracity or not of the news, but that it begins to vertebrate a new line of an investigation directed to the informational education and towards the prevention of the consumption of this type of news through the internet. 2024-05-07T12:35:53Z 2024-05-07T12:35:53Z 2020-05-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article García, S. A., García, G. G., Prieto, M. S., Moreno-Guerrero, A., & Jiménez, C. R. (2020). The Impact of Term Fake News on the Scientific Community. Scientific Performance and Mapping in Web of Science. Social Sciences, 9(5), 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9050073 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/91510 10.3390/SOCSCI9050073 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License MDPI