[Bibliometric analysis of the scientific productionof asthma in Latin America].

OBJECTIVE

To describe the scientific production, through bibliometric analysis, about asthma in Latin America.

METHODS

Observational, descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study, with a quantitative bibliometric approach, to evaluate the scientific production of asthma in Latin America, using the Scopus and SciELO platforms to recover files published between 2003 and 2022.

RESULTS

A totoal of 3041 documents were obtained in Scopus and 592 in SciELO. In both repositories, the original articles (2379 and 478) and the reviews (379 and 43) were the most published documents. The larg-est producer was Brasil: n = 1538 in Scopus, and n = 406 in SciELO, and the journal with the highest number of publications was Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia with 169 articles in Scopus and 164 articles in SciELO.

CONCLUSIONS

The bibliometric analysis shows the panorama of the last 20 years in research on asthma in Latin America, where scientific production has progressively increased, mainly in Brazil, Mexico and Chile.