The food industry and its post-covid economic impact in Ecuador

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variable The Food Industry and its Post-COVID Economic Impact in Latin America. 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 2016-2021 in Latin American countries, achieving the identification of 54 publications in total. The information provided by the said platform was organized through 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, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic was referenced using a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of the present research, it is found that Brazil, with 20 publications, is the Latin American country with the highest production. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of the Food Industry and its Post-COVID Economic Impact was Agricultural and Biological Sciences with 22 published documents and the type of publication that was most used during the period indicated above was the journal article, which represents 50% of the total scientific production.