A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variable of scientific production in the history of Peru. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus and WOS database during the period 2015-2020 in Latin American countries, achieving the identification of 665 publications in total registered in Scopus and 1836 publications registered in WOS. The information provided by the said platform was organized through tables and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge, and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic was referenced by employing a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Peru, with 460 documents in Scopus and 1437 documents in WOS 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 referring to the study of the scientific production on the history of Peru in Scopus was Medicine with 238 published documents and in WOS it was zoology with 275 documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the above-mentioned period was the journal article, which represents 86% in Scopus and 93% in WOS of the total scientific production.