Criminal Law In Iberoamerica: Present And Future Prospects

Abstract

For the preparation of this article, a documentary review was conducted on the writing and publication of research papers related to the study of Criminal Law in order to know, through a bibliometric study, the main characteristics of 187 publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2021 in Ibero-American countries. The data provided by this database were organized in graphs and figures, categorizing the information by variables such as Year of Publication, Country of Origin and Area of Knowledge, which allowed to identify, through qualitative analysis, the position of different authors concerning the proposed topic.

One of the main findings of this research was that Brazil stood out as the country with the highest scientific production, leading the list with 66 publications. Likewise, the Knowledge Area that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material related to the study of Criminal Law was Social Sciences, with 153 published documents.