Abstract:

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers on sustainable development indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean. The bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in Scopus database during the period 2016-2021, achieving the identification of 1182 publications in total. The information provided by the said platform was organized using tables and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 519 publications, was the country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The Area of Knowledge that made the most significant contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of Sustainable Development Indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean was Environmental Sciences, with 608 published documents, and the Type of Publication that was most used during the period indicated above was the Journal Article, representing 74% of the total scientific production.

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