Socially responsible education for the consumption of plant-based foods in the city of Guayaquil within the framework of Sustainable Development Goal #12 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of socially responsible education for the consumption of plant-based foods within the framework of the sustainable development goal set by the UN. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this paper was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2016-2021, achieving the identification of publications in total. The information provided by the said platform was organized by employing tables and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, affiliated institutions, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, the position of different authors on the proposed topic was referenced by employing a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, with 10 publications, was the entity with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with these institutions in that country. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of socially responsible education for the consumption of plant-based foods within the framework of the sustainable development objective proposed by the UN was Medicine with 31 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the journal article, which represents 82% of the total scientific production.