Exploracion de las investigaciones en contabilidad ambiental en las instituciones de educacion superior de Medellin

This article will present the theses related to socio-environmental accounting of the different IES of Medellín, to extract the key and substantial information from them, delimiting thematic areas and instruments, which allowed to have a database on the degree works related to socio-environmental accounting (CSA). The methodology applied to this work was quantitative based on the descriptive method, the technique used for the development of this research was bibliometrics. The results identified 34 theses and the most addressed CSA research topic were its theoretical aspects, in addition the most used collection instrument was the interview. It is concluded that socio-environmental accounting increasingly becomes one of the most relevant topics within the agendas and research groups of HEIs, it is recommended that future research expand the research area, which will allow tracking of more information.