Comparative analysis of the legal scientific production of journals indexed in Scopus in Latin America 2022

The objective of this research is to compare by country the legal scientific production of journals indexed in Scopus in Latin America during the year 2022. The descriptive, cross-sectional and mixed method approach was used in order to start a theoretical analysis of the rational analytical type on the importance of indexed journals in law, and then move on to an empirical study with secondary information sources. It was possible to arrive at precisions such as the fact that there is a notable diversity of countries in Latin America that have been managing legal journals indexed in Scopus, such as Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. There are also a large number of countries that have not been developing such production, such as Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador and Uruguay. In addition, the legal journals indexed in Scopus show significant differences in quantity, since some countries have a greater volume of publications and, therefore, a greater presence in the impact factor of references.