Innovations in University Education: Impact on The Development of Professional and Academic Competencies

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variable University Education, Professional Competencies and Innovation. 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 2018-2023 by Latin American institutions, achieving the identification of 121 publications. 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 Mexico, with 51 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 University Education, Professional Competencies and Innovation was Social Sciences with 87 published documents, and the most used Publication Type during the period indicated above were Journal Articles with 56% of the total scientific production.