Effective communication of science: what is it and how can it help every scientists to improve their career and to achieve societal impact objectives? Literature review

The main objective of this work is to present a state of the art on the effective communication of science, as well as recommendations to the whole scientific community, based on a bibliographic review that follows the principles of scoping reviews.
The European Union has detected that one of the challenges is to improve the effective communication of funded projects. Although dissemination is the way scientists reach other scientists with their publications and advances, public funding agencies not only expect scientific impact, but also demand social impact. As conclusions, the effective communication of science allows promoting any scientific career, meeting the demands of social responsibility and positioning science as the basis of social development. The professional and academic community in communication area has wide possibilities in this field, both in career development and in research opportunities.