ABSTRACT
Scientific research allows for increasing the knowledge of reality and the phenomena that manifest and evolve in it. Today, research is considered a professional competence, which is mainly developed in university institutions. Day by day, the so-called information society is flooded with research works of all types and qualities. At the same time, there is an increase in the number of annual publications that analyze data and measure intellectual works and their contribution to the scientific heritage of each discipline. A series of indicators are generated based on various parameters such as authors, type of document, language, and keywords, among others. The visualization of these numerous indicators, which vary over time, can be achieved effectively through the use of bibliometric software, which is also renewed in its functionality and features. The following is a study, assisted by systematic and bibliometric review techniques, with the aim of identifying the most widely used bibliometric software and those emerging that serve as a guide and good practice in new bibliometric research to obtain notable and relevant knowledge. The applications "VOSviewer", "CiteSpace" and "Bibliometrix" stand out and tools such as "Scopus API R code", "Covidence", "HistCite", "BICOMB", "EndNote X9.6 Statistical", "Ucinet 6.0", "Tools for Innovation Monitoring", "Profiles Research Networking Software", among others, emerge. © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).