Challenges and Barriers to the Development of Research Skills in University Students

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variables Research Skills and Higher Education. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2022 and to identify the current situation in Latin American institutions with respect to the study of the aforementioned variables, achieving the identification of 623 publications in total at the Latin American level. The information provided by this platform was organized through graphs and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics have been described, the position of different authors on the proposed topic is referenced through a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings made through this research, it is found that Brazil, with 156 publications, was the Latin American country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that nation. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material related to the study of Research Skills and Higher Education was Social Sciences with 406 published documents, and the Type of Publication that was most used during the period indicated above was the Journal Article, which represents 71% of the total scientific production.