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Comunicación de riesgos y seguridad alimentaria en la era 2.0

Publicated to:Profesional De La Informacion. 21 (4): 381-384 - 2012-07-01 21(4), DOI: 10.3145/epi.2012.jul.08

Authors: Farre-Coma, Jordi; Gonzalo-Iglesia, Juan-Luis; Lores-Garcia, Monica; Lozano-Monterrubio, Natalia; Prades-Tena, Jordi

Affiliations

Departament d'Estudis de Comunicació, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, (DEC) Campus Catalunya, Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain - Author
Univ Rovira & Virgili, DEC, Tarragona 43002, Spain - Author

Abstract

In recent decades, after several crises, the communication of risk has acquired special importance for those responsible for food safety. Public distrust has led the EU to base their communications strategy on scientific information. In spite of the institutionalization and professionalization of risk communication, the results have not been those foreseen in the new media environment. The explosion of social media or web 2.0 has created digital cultures with new concepts of risks and benefits. For the institutions, the social media add new problems to the traditional communication of risk: they feel obliged to participate in the virtual environment, but at the same time they are afraid to lose control of both the message and legitimacy, and they don't know how to talk to users. Institutions still consider social media as an uncertain opportunity.

Keywords

BenefitChannelCommunicationFeedingFood securityFoodriscMessageRiskSocial mediaSource

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Profesional De La Informacion due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2012, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Cultural Studies.

Desde una perspectiva relativa, los impactos normalizados en entornos vinculados a las áreas de humanidades y ciencias sociales dentro del contexto nacional, este trabajo consigue un valor de citación normalizada, calculado a partir de los datos proporcionados por Dialnet Métricas, de: 30.43, lo que indica que, de manera comparada con trabajos en la misma disciplina y en el mismo año de publicación, lo ubica como trabajo citado por encima de la media al menos en el contexto nacional. (source consulted: Dialnet Metrics Dec 2023)

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-16:

  • Dialnet Métricas: 7
  • Google Scholar: 18
  • WoS: 2
  • Scopus: 4

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-16:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 51.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 51 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.
  • The number of mentions on Wikipedia: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Farré Coma, Jorge) and Last Author (Prades Tena, Jordi).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Farré Coma, Jorge.