Conditions that researchers have faced during COVID-19 in the production of knowledge

Abstract

The article discusses the changes that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in educational legislation, financing, and restrictions on physical presence, which has generated an atypical situation in higher education institutions. The objective is to analyze the institutional, family, and public policy conditions that researchers at Mexican State-run Public Universities have faced in the production of knowledge. It is a quantitative and explanatory study whose results are that 52\% of the researchers consider that confinement did not help them to improve their academic productivity in quantitative terms, for 96\% working from home has increased their working hours, 64\% have postponed their academic productivity due to family conditions and 75\% mention that public policies derived from the pandemic altered their research projects.