Identification of the research themes of Chocó in the literature indexed in Scopus

Objective: extract the research topics from the summa-ries and bibliographic data of the articles indexed in the Scopus database that have the department of Choco (Co-lombia) as their object of study. Methods: The keywords Choco AND Colombia were searched in the Scopus data-base, the bibliographic references were exported to End -Note and the data of author(s), title, periodical publica-tion, volume, number, year and abstract were extracted, they were converted into a text file, references and sym- bols were removed. The manipulation of the pdf file was carried out with the execution of text preparation, toke-nization, lemmatization and obtaining the list of bigrams that were carried out in the integrated development en-vironment (EDI) of RStudio. Results: 668 bibliographic records of indexed documents were found in Scopus. The words with the highest frequency of occurrence are: << species >>, << Colombia >>, << Choco >>, << forest >>, << pacific >>, << tropical >>, etc. 89 841 bigrams were found, including << new species >>, << pacific coast >>, << colombian pacific >>, etc. Word collocations show that << gold >> matches << mining >>, << mercury >>, << platinum >>, etc. << Choco >> combines with << Colombia >>, << biogeographical >>, << rain >>, << tropical >>, etc. << Biodiversity >> combines with << conservation >>, << tropical >>, << agricultural >>, etc. << Climate >> combines with << change >>, << variability >>, << basin >>, etc. Conclusions: the most frequent words show that there is a concern for the study of min-ing, biodiversity, climate change, the tropical forest, the Pacific Ocean, etc.