DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND COVID 19: CONTRASTS IN LATIN AMERICA
Miguel Ángel Medina Romero
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4067-2816, miguel.medina.romero@umich.mx
Lyonel Calderon
Universidad de Guayaquil
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1005-573X, lyocalderon@hotmail.com
Jesús Elizarrarás-Rivas
Coordinación de Investigación en Salud, IMSS, Oaxaca México
dr.jesuselizarraras@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3416-0267
María Guadalupe Ramírez-Rojas
Researcher of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), assigned to the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) Southeast Unit
amairanai@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4251-8014
Florencio Flores Ccanto
Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle, Lima-Perú
fflores@une.edu.pe, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5600-9854
Ibeth Catherine Figueroa Sánchez
Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizan, Huánuco – Perú
cfigueroa@unheval.edu.pe, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0440-2504
Abstract. A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the digital transformation variable and COVID 19 in Latin America. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in Scopus database during the period 2020-2021 in Latin American countries, achieving the identification of 62 publications. The information provided by this platform was organized by means of 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, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic was referenced by means of a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Mexico and Brazil, with 18 publications, are the Latin American countries with the highest production. The areas of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material related to the study of digital transformation and COVID 19 in Latin America were Social Sciences and Computer Sciences with 31 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the journal article, representing 51% of the total scientific production.
Keywords: digital transformation, COVID 19