Background: Due to the current contingency due to covid 19, students and teachers have had to face new digital challenges in such a way that they seek to become aware of how important digital skills are for the learning process. However, it is evident that, in Peru, there is a digital divide due to inequality; therefore, there is no good university service due to the lack of Internet access in rural areas. The digital skills of university students allow the production of new knowledge and technological innovation from the development of digital skills. Objective: The general objective of the research was to identify the country with the most scientific production through a bibliometric and bibliographic review, to search for the production of research works on the construct of digital competence in scientific research in higher education during the period 2016- 2021. Methodology: The research was developed under a qualitative approach based on a documentary review of the studies carried out in the period 2016-2021 in Latin American countries of the digital competence variable, 44 articles registered in the Scopus database were identified.