Paradigms, understood as perspectives, are decisive in shaping scientific activity. In this sense, one of the main reasons for the lack of intellectual institutionalization of the field of communication (Peters, 2007; Lacasa, 2017) may be the absence of disciplinary memory (Pooley, 2020) and of discussion of research perspectives. It is necessary to contribute to fill the epistemological vacuum of a field that is emerging as very relevant in the coming decades, being needed from a communicative perspective intended to generate more democratic environments. In a line of inquiry located within the confluence of meta-research and history of communication research, which we name meta-research of ideas (Gómez-Diago, 2020, 2021.a, 2021.b), through a review of reference works published in the last five decades which address the role of paradigms in communication research, several typologies of...