Analysis of the Scientific Productivity of Mexican Researchers on the Topic of Gifted Students

The purpose of the study was to conduct a critical analysis of the scientific literature by Mexican researchers about the topic of the gifted students for the period 2003-2013. Within the analysis were included research articles, book chapters and/or books in which a Mexican researcher participated. A bibliometric, thematic and methodological analysis of the literature was conducted. The results indicated the existence of Mexican researchers with sustained productivity in the thematic analyses. However, the results also showed limitations on a high geographic, institutional and authorship concentration of the publications, few empirical studies, few publications in journals with high-quality indexing a narrow range of methodological approaches and the predominance of descriptive scope research.