La percepción de la comunidad académica sobre el sistema de investigación y evaluación en Comunicación

This paper aims to analyze the context in which the Communication is developed as a social practice from a discursive dimension. This work is based on a qualitative perspective of an exploratory nature, so it does not have initial hypotheses. Its objective is to extract the academic community predominant opinion lines on the Communication Research and Evaluation System and its influence in the academic and scientific context. To this end, a Likert-type online survey has been launched on a census of 2,418 researchers in Communication in Spain, reaching 604 responses, representing a response rate of 24.97%. It is assumed that the research community is part of the same academic ecosystem, being all subjects closely interrelated. Therefore, the design of the survey obeys to a model based on three dimensions: knowledge production, institution management and research evaluation. Among the main conclusions stands out the generalized perception that the research and evaluation system has provoked a functionalist dynamic. It conditions the form of research, fully affecting innovation and interruption of scientific discourse. Keywords: Communication meta-research; scientific discourse; evaluation systems; context studies; Likert scale survey.