<p>The objective of the study was to carry out a bibliometric analysis of Peruvian scientific publications in psychology journals indexed to the Scopus database. Based on a sample of 202 publications, whose first author signed with the affiliation of a Peruvian university, their characteristics were described considering the year, sex of the first author and language of publication; then, the authors, institutions and journals with the highest number of publications were identified; compliance with Lotka's law was evaluated; indices and collaboration networks were estimated; the thematic characteristics and the method were analyzed; and, finally, the most cited articles were identified. The main results show a greater participation of male authors and publications in Spanish; the breach of Lotka's law and an increase in collaborative works, likewise, the predominance of methodological-psychometric and quantitative articles is verified. Based on these findings, the development of actions that can help improve the visibility of scientific publications in psychology whose authors are affiliated with Peruvian universities is suggested.</p>