Bibliometric analysis of scientific production on the quality of education in Ecuador

Abstract

Quality is a fundamental principle of educational policies in Ecuador. In this sense, the objective of the research is to describe the bibliometric indicators of the scientific production indexed in the broadspectrum database Web of Science related to educational quality in the context of Ecuadorian education. The research is descriptive, comparative and retrospective, 15 documents were selected using search equations applied to the Web of Science database. The results provide indicators of production, visibility, impact and collaboration, identifying a decreasing production rate with a variation rate of -85.71%. It is concluded that there is a reduced interest in conducting studies that lead to understanding and proposing processes that improve the quality of education and, the studies conducted in the study period are focused on determining various strategies to improve the quality of Ecuadorian education, especially in educational management and evaluation, as well as curricular adaptation inherent in the processes of student training.