Center-periphery tension in the production of the political communication field. The Mexican case

s Introduction. Each country‟s development characteristics and production in a scientific field such as that of political communication in Mexico is an opportunity to locate the tendencies in scientific productivity in said field. Methodology. In an exploratory design, 202 articles referring to the phenomenon of political communication in Mexico were analyzed so as to observe how production has behaved in a period in relation with world production of the same object of study. Results and conclusions. It was revealed that production tendencies do not manage to structure a consolidated field and that is exactly why they are oriented more towards the periphery of global scientific production.