Trends in scientific production on science communication during the period 2017-2021

This study identifies the relationships between the main concepts around an initial search related to the "com-munication of science" in the period 2017-2021. It is based on 301 documents selected based on relevance criteria, of which the impact of the publications is studied through the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and an analysis of the co-occur-rence of keywords is carried out to discover the lines of research. Most important around the "communication of science". It is concluded that the articles related to the communication of science in general are published to a greater extent in non-indexed publications, an aspect that is repeated in the studied temporality, in addition it is detected that the topics that are studied are related to scientific communication and education. Science, the study of social networks, scientific dissemination, bibliometric evaluation and public communication in relation to Covid-19.