Formative research in Latin American higher education: Curriculum and scientific production

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Amílcar Máximo Vicuña Ureta, Dometila Mamani Jilaja, Gino Frank Laque Cordova, Katia Perez Argollo, Salvador Gerardo Flores Chambilla, Milko Raúl Rivera Campano

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A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variable Formative research in Latin American higher education. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in Scopus database during the period 2015-2020 in Latin American countries, achieving the identification of 81 publications. The information provided by this platform was organized by means of graphs and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics are described, a qualitative analysis of the position of different authors on the proposed topic is referred to. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 35 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 formative research in Latin American higher education was social sciences with 57 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the journal article, which represents 78% of the total scientific production.

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