Expressões de ética científica no Twitter/X: uma análise da coocorrência de hashtags

This research has a twofold objective: first, to determine in which grade the themes of scientific ethics and academic integrity have been expressed on Twitter/X; second, to reveal and delve deeper into the topics generated around those central themes and, with this, to analyse the dynamics of the main users who are involved in them. To this end, a database was set up with just over 201 thousand tweets that used at least one of the 22 defined terms and related to the core themes. The fundamental unit of analysis was the hashtags that are used on the tweets. Besides, we applied the social network analysis approach to reveal and understand how they are linked to each other. The results show that the scientific ethics theme is well-represented on Twitter; also, a great diversity of hashtags has been used, which shape different thematic strands. Additionally, the users have distinct roles related to the hashtags. It is concluded showing that Twitter is a good space for the expression of scientific ethics; nevertheless, there are both positive and negative strands regarding this.