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The article is a result of a complementary advanced publication workshop accompanying the curriculum course exercises for PhD students, on the role of ICT in the research work of a scientist. To fulfill the extended course requirements the participants decided to write relevant paper, if possible, related to their individual research endeavors and their relations to the digital world. The paper consists of a collection of short chapters written by young researchers. They express their own views, based on early research experience, relevant generally to the inclusion of critical digital age components in their theses. The chapters are only moderately consulted by the tutor in the direction of finding a common denominator related to social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers concerning the study of the variable Importance of ICT in the teaching of social sciences in higher education. 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 2015-2020 in Latin American countries, achieving the identification of 50 publications. The information provided by this platform was organized by means of graphs 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 in relation to the proposed theme. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 18 publications, is the Latin American country with the highest production. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material concerning the study on the importance of ICT in the teaching of social sciences in higher education was computer science with 25 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the journal article, which represents 56% of the total scientific production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]