Scientific Production on Interaction in Digital News Media

We aim to analyse scientific output on interactivity in digital news to determine its evolution over time, authorship (including collaborations between authors and their affiliations), the most notable journals, and the subject areas that are addressed. We have made a bibliometric analysis using Scopus (Elsevier), a multidisciplinary database with 18,000 academic journals indexed since 2001. As a results, we found that a considerable increase in publications on this subject from 2005, a group of 20 most prolific authors who work at US and European universities, the highest number of publications was the University of Texas at Austin (USA), the predominant language in the publications was English (almost 90%), followed at a distance by Spanish (almost 10%), the journals New Media & Society, Digital Journalism, Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice have published the most papers on this subject and, in terms of subject areas, the main keyword was ‘interactivity’ followed by ‘participatory journalism’ and ‘social media’, around which various clusters of interrelations were formed.