COVID-19: DIGITIZATION IN LATIN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the Digitization of academic content in Higher Education Institutions in Latin America during Covid-19 in the period between 2020 and 2021. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2020-2021 by Latin American institutions, achieving the identification of 133 publications in total. The information provided by this platform was organized using graphs and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge, and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic was referenced through qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Mexico was the country with the highest production with 33 publications. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of the digitization of academic contents by higher education institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic was Social Sciences with 74 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period indicated above was the journal article, representing 55% of the total scientific production.