ABSTRACT
This article aims to characterize the scientific production of Digital Educational Resources (DER) and Virtual Learning Objects (VLO) published between 2000 and 2021 and indexed in the main collections of Web of Science, Scielo Citation Index, Scopus, and Dimensions. To achieve this, a two-phase quantitative methodology is used. In the first phase, a bibliometric analysis (n=649) is carried out to characterize the production and, in the second phase, a content analysis (n=171) is carried out of publications focused on the development of DER and VLO. Our results show that Colombia is the country with the highest production of DER and VLO, that the largest number of educational resources are aimed at higher education students and that few are inclusive in their characteristics. Finally, the production of scientific texts has been increasing and is positioned as a trend in the specialized databases included in this study, especially for the time frame of the Covid-19 pandemic. © 2023 Authors. All rights reserved.