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Scientific production in Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced great growth in recent years (Álvarez-Muñoz y Pérez-Montoro, 2016; Santa y Herrero, 2010), due in part to the increase in public investment in science in these countries and the indexing of their journals in global (Scopus or Wos) and regional (Latindex or Redalyc) databases of bibliographic references. However, in communication, the publication of academic articles is still embryonic. There are several academic studies (Flores-García y Becerril-García, 2020; López-Ornelas et al., 2017; Rogel-Salazar et al., 2017) that highlight the scarce of disclosure of scientific knowledge in this region, remarking the limited presence of communication journals published in Latin America and indexed in databases. In the specific area of public relations, the conceptualization and recognition of this discipline in the academic and professional field has been increasing since the mid-twentieth century. However, despite the progress experienced, the small number of existing studies on the subject in these journals, justify this investigation line. In this sense, this research, within the framework of bibliometric studies, proposes to determine the position occupied by public relations in the academic production about communication of the main journals of the Latin American Caribbean in the last ten years (2010-2020); as well as analyzing the main characteristics of these publications by examining the areas of knowledge of the published texts, the institutions from which they come or its authorship, among other aspects such as the object of study and the methodological procedure used in the research. The scientific journals that make up the sample (Comunicación y Sociedad, from Mexico, Palabra Clave and Signo y Pensamiento, both from Colombia) have been selected based on representativeness criteria such as the impact index in the Scopus bibliographic database and the geographical scope of the Latin American Caribbean. The results indicate that the discipline of public relations is marginal in the overall scientific production in communication in the Latin American Caribbean. Most of the texts published by the journals with the highest impact index in the region focus on fields related to communication but are far removed from the specific area of public relations. However, it is noticeable that in recent years greater attention has been paid to this discipline, with an increase in scientific production in the period between 2016 and 2020. The findings obtained also allow us to establish a profile of the scientific production on public relations disseminated in the decade from 2010 to 2020 by the leading journals in the Latin American Caribbean. A collective authorship, balanced in terms of the sex of the signatories, mainly from universities in Latin America and Spain, and the use of empirical approaches from a qualitative perspective, define the type of academic production analysed. Despite the limitations that this research presents when it comes to extrapolating the results to the whole of the scientific production on public relations in territories other than the Latin American Caribbean, it is outlined as an exploratory study and a first approach to the still incipient research on the discipline of public relations in Caribbean academic journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text analyzes and examines theoretically and empirically what is now a matter of a serious discussion in the national academic environment around the production, diffusion and dissemination of scientific academic research: Do basic research activities contribute significantly to the progress in training of specialized personnel? If so, what role do academic diffusion products have as a teaching strategy in the area of communication studies in undergraduate and graduate programs? The objective was to evaluate the internal consistency and reliability of a theoretical scale that measures the production and scientific diffusion of communication in the higher education environment. A questionnaire with thirteen manifest variables was applied in a sample of 66 undergraduate and graduate professors in the area of Communication Sciences in a public university in of Mexico. The results confirm that a reliable instrument was available with data consistent with the validity of the scale. The evidence presented concludes that there are some causes to explain why undergraduate and graduate professional teaching and training are disconnected from research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study shows some partial gains on the appreciation that have secondary school students to the State of Sonora (Mexico), on the uses, consumption, preferences and the parental control on the Internet. The perception of these variables, allowed to generate relevant information of propositive character and sustain the necessary elements for an improvement of the process of formation of the student and that, in any case, could allow an optimal use of ICT and more safely. Particularly, the text shows partial conclusions on three particular areas of study: a). Uses, preferences and consumption on the Internet; b). Regulation, mediation and parental controls on the use of the Internet; and, c). The implications for public policy and education for the interactive media. Finally, it should be noted that this is research referred to young Internet users between 12 and 15 years; in addition, the study covers any device through which children are connected and directed online: smartphone, smarttv, game consoles and the Internet in general [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]