Sexuality education and adolescent pregnancy prevention: Bibliometric analysis

The present study aimed to characterize the temporal distribution, journals, authorship, institutional affiliations, and thematic profile of a corpus of publications on adolescent pregnancy prevention and care from an educational perspective. To this end, a descriptive, retrospective bibliometric study was conducted on 25 articles identified in a documentary matrix and verified through their full texts. Once the metadata had been standardized, the study designs were classified, and the authors’ keywords were grouped using an explicit dictionary. In addition, frequencies, percentages, and coauthorship indicators were calculated, while geographic origin was determined according to the country of the first author’s first affiliation. The results show that the corpus includes publications from 2020 to 2026, disseminated across 23 journals. The year with the highest representation was 2024, with seven articles, equivalent to 28.0% of the total. Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico accounted for 15 publications, or 60.0% of the corpus. Regarding authorship, 92 distinct authors were identified, with an average of 3.68 authors per article; moreover, 23 documents, corresponding to 92.0%, were coauthored. Nine articles were reviews, and two were randomized controlled trials. Among the 23 documents with retrievable keywords, education was the most frequent thematic family, followed by prevention. In conclusion, the corpus reflects wide editorial dispersion and a marked Latin American component, with educational, family, healthcare, and intersectoral approaches. These findings describe the analyzed collection without estimating global scientific output or program effectiveness. Therefore, the evaluation of school-based interventions should differentiate between knowledge, behaviors, and reproductive outcomes.