Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers concerning studying the variable Anxiety in High School Students in Latin America. The bibliometric analysis proposed in this document aims to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database between 2017 and 2021, achieving the identification of 118 publications in total. The information provided by the mentioned platform was organized through tables and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 55 publications, was the country with the highest production at the Latin American level. The area of knowledge that made the most significant contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of anxiety in high school students was medicine, with 58 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the journal article, which represented 88% of the total scientific production.